HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Samsung Exynos 7870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . 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 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +143%

355946

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +124%

386

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +178%

1377

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +1404%

331

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

768 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

12

Execution units

1

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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