HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

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

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +7%

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

330570

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 +16%

448

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 +4%

1441

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 +16%

384

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 360 Gold (Cortex-A75)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 360 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

384 KB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

10 nm

5.5

Transistor count

3

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 616

768 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 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 685 DSP

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 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, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

SDM712

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712

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