HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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HiSilicon Kirin 970 Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 . 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 7.5GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +84%

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

209

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +50%

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

916

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2.2 GHz – A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

11 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

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

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.5 GB/s

AI

Yes

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

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP

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

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

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

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

MSM8953 Pro

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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