HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

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HiSilicon Kirin 970 Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0432 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 12nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +120%

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

161583

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +93%

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

200

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +72%

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

799

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +669%

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

43

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.45 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

12 nm

5.5

Transistor count

5.5

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 505

768 MHz

GPU frequency

450 MHz

12

Execution units

1

18

Shading units

48

8

Max size

5

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0432 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 536

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Jun 2018

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3670

Model number

SDM439

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 439

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