HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +242%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +79%

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +70%

1377

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +480%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

5.5

-

TDP

9 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

900 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

2

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

Hi3670

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Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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