HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 710A

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HiSilicon Kirin 970 HiSilicon Kirin 710A

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 710A . 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 0.128 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 710A Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +52%

355946

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

234102

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +20%

386

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

321

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +21%

1377

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

1135

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +158%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 710A

128

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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HiSilicon Kirin 710A

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

512 KB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G51 MP4

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.128 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

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2340 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 40MP, 2x 24MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Jun 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

-

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