HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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HiSilicon Kirin 970 Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.384 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +9%

389314

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +95%

756

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +29%

1783

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G +16%

384

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

8 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Adreno 618

768 MHz

GPU frequency

750 MHz

12

Execution units

2

18

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.384 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 692

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

384 kHz/32 bit

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Jan 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

SM7125

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

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