HiSilicon Kirin 710A vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 710A 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 710A Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.128 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

234102

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +52%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

321

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +20%

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

1135

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +21%

1377

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

128

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +158%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

512 KB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G51 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

1000 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

4

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

18

8

Max size

8

0.128 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 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, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2340 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 40MP, 2x 24MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

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. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jun 2020

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3670

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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