HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 6 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 . 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 0.1536 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +32%

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

291

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +83%

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

750

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +116%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

153

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

6

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

256 KB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

28 nm

5.5

Transistor count

1

9 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 510

768 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

12

Execution units

1

18

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1536 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 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 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, VP8

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X8

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 100 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

MSM8956

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650

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