Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 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 801 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2360MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.148 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +182%

355946

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +123%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

Architecture

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

2500 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

4

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

10 nm

1

Transistor count

5.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 330

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

578 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

1

Execution units

12

128

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.148 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

14.9 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2560 x 2048

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 21MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2014

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8974 v3

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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