HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 9610

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Samsung Exynos 9610

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 9610 . 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 0.0918 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 11.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

Samsung Exynos 9610 Advantages

Lower TDP (8W vs 9W)

Released 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +39%

355946

Samsung Exynos 9610

255002

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +3%

386

Samsung Exynos 9610

374

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +31%

1377

Samsung Exynos 9610

1051

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +263%

331

Samsung Exynos 9610

91

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Samsung Exynos 9610

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

10 nm

5.5

Transistor count

3

9 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP3

768 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

12

Execution units

3

18

Shading units

18

8

Max size

6

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0918 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

11.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Shannon 337

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Mar 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

S5E9610

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9610

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