Unisoc SC9863A vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Unisoc SC9863A HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Unisoc SC9863A 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

Unisoc SC9863A Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0704 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 28nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Unisoc SC9863A

156960

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +126%

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Unisoc SC9863A

165

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +133%

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Unisoc SC9863A

730

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +88%

1377

FP32 (float)

Unisoc SC9863A

70

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +372%

331

Unisoc SC9863A

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

1600 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

3 W

TDP

9 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

PowerVR GE8322

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

550 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

8

Execution units

12

8

Shading units

18

4

Max size

8

0.0704 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2160 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 5MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2018

Announced

Sep 2017

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3670

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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