Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 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 680 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 10nm)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.284 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

310059

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +14%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 +7%

414

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 +5%

1447

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

284

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +16%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

-

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 610

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

1110 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

1

Execution units

12

128

Shading units

18

8

Max size

8

0.284 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 686

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

X11

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 390 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.2

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2021

Announced

Sep 2017

Low end

Class

Flagship

SM6225

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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