HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 . 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 0.1248 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +127%

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

156131

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +166%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

124

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 506

768 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

12

Execution units

1

18

Shading units

96

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1248 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1900 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

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

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

MSM8953

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

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