Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 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 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2450MHz vs 2360MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +4%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +7%

415

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +10%

1519

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +71%

567

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

2450 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

10 nm

3

Transistor count

5.5

9 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 540

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

739 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

1

Execution units

12

384

Shading units

18

8

Max size

8

0.5675 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 682

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 682

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

X16

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 16

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 1000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2016

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

MSM8998

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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