Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 2342MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 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 821 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3343 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2342MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (9W vs 11W)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

233076

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +52%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 +1%

391

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

797

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +72%

1377

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

334

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

2x 2.342 GHz – Kryo
2x 1.6 GHz – Kryo

Architecture

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

2342 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

4

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

10 nm

2

Transistor count

5.5

11 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 530

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

653 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

1

Execution units

12

256

Shading units

18

8

Max size

8

0.3343 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

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

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2016

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8996 Pro-AC

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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