HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Google Tensor G5

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Google Tensor G5

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 3400MHz Google Tensor G5 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor G5 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.536 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (3400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 10nm)

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Google Tensor G5 +306%

1445942

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Google Tensor G5 +364%

1536

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Google Tensor G5

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-X4
5x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A525

2360 MHz

Frequency

3400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

3 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

-

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

12

Execution units

-

18

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

Video codecs

- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

-

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Aug 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

-

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