Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

135324

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +163%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

206

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +87%

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

832

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +65%

1377

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

43

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +669%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1400 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

10 nm

1

Transistor count

5.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 505

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

450 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

1

Execution units

12

48

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.0432 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

800 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 536

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

X6

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 4

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 75 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2015

Announced

Sep 2017

Low end

Class

Flagship

MSM8937

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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