HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (31.78GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +39%

498005

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +96%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

850 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

6

Execution units

12

64

Shading units

18

12

Max size

8

0.6528 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

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3670

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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