78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Kirin 9010

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Kirin 9010 SoCs by Hisilicon and respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 12-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Kirin 9010 55
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Kirin 9010 38
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Kirin 9010 100
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Kirin 9010 64
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Kirin 9010
CPU 77046 305156
GPU 90560 197179
Memory 66398 266091
UX 59977 201408
Total score 293981 969834
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 2.61% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (2360 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 13.33% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9010 (850 vs 750 MHz).

Pros of HiSilicon Kirin 9010

  • Kirin 9010 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Kirin 9010 has 229.90% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (970 K vs 294 K ).
  • Kirin 9010 Support 47.65% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (44 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Kirin 9010 1442

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Kirin 9010 4471

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Kirin 9010

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Kirin 9010

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Kirin 9010

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Kirin 9010

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Kirin 9010

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Kirin 9010

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Kirin 9010

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

70%
Base Frequency

1550 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V121
    4x 1.55 GHz – TaiShan V121
    6x 2.18 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 12
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm -
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion 7 Billion
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Maleoon 910
  • Architecture Bifrost Maleoon
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 -
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 44 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Da Vinci
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Balong 5000
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

CPU
55%
GPU
38%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
100%
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