HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (5.3W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +214%

1118907

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +331%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +192%

4030

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +658%

2512

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2360 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

4 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 730

768 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

768

8

Max size

24

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

SM8450

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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