HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +318%

1489956

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +920%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2360 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

8 MB

10 nm

Process

4 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 735

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1100 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

768

8

Max size

24

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

3.3792 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

64 Gbit/s

AI

-

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X70

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 6500 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Mar 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

SM8635

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

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