HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 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 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +27%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +5%

408

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +24%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 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

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

10 nm

4

Transistor count

5.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

8

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

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

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

Hi3670

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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