HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Dimensity 1080

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.686 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 9W)

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +51%

537997

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +151%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +75%

2421

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

MediaTek Dimensity 1080 +107%

686

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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MediaTek Dimensity 1080

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

6 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

4 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

768 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

-

8

Max size

16

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.686 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

MediaTek APU 3.0

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Oct 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

MT6877V/TTZA

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 1080

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