HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 930

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz HiSilicon Kirin 930 . 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 0.0768 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +335%

331

HiSilicon Kirin 930

76

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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HiSilicon Kirin 930

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

28 nm

5.5

Transistor count

1

9 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T628 MP4

768 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

6

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0768 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.1

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Apr 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

Hi3635

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

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