Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 HiSilicon Kirin 970

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 8s Gen 3Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Published 6 years 6 months later

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +336%

1554839

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +920%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

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

3000 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 735

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

1100 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

2

Execution units

12

768

Shading units

18

24

Max size

8

3.3792 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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

Snapdragon X70

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 6500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

5

5.4

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2024

Announced

Sep 2017

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8635

Model number

Hi3670

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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