HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G 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

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +95%

695853

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +156%

990

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +130%

3179

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +108%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

10 nm

8

Transistor count

5.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

600 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

16

Execution units

12

36

Shading units

18

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Da Vinci

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Balong 765

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 19

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3670

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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