Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, vs HiSilicon Kirin 970. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and HiSilicon Kirin 970
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1169574
HiSilicon Kirin 970
353467
CPU31566580042
GPU426818106499
Memory19283481766
UX23425785160
NanoReview Score1169574353467
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
6718
HiSilicon Kirin 970
828
Stabilityn/a75 %
Graphics Test40 fps4 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
1661
HiSilicon Kirin 970
383
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
4002
HiSilicon Kirin 970
1373
File Compression154.9 MB/s83.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser112.7 pages/s49.3 pages/s
PDF Rendering147.2 MP/sec51.8 MP/sec
Background Blur13.8 frames/s2.33 frames/s
Photo Processing36.3 frames/s10.3 frames/s
Image Detection94 frames/s14 frames/s
HDR122 MP/sec51.8 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.39 MP/sec2.62 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 88 FPS (Ultra) n/a
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) n/a
FortniteFortnite 42 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends 89 FPS (Ultra) n/a
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 114 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 40 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device Xiaomi Poco F4 GT (1080x2400) n/a

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 4/2.36 (Cortex A73)
- 4/1.84 (Cortex A53)
Process Samsung TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 3000 2360
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache n/a 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 2 MB
L3 Cache 6 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 10 nm
Transistor count n/a 5.5 billion
Power (TDP) 5.3 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 730 Mali-G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 700 Bifrost 2nd gen
GPU Frequency 818 MHz 746 MHz
Execution Units 2 12
Shader Units 512 12
Total shader 1024 144
FLOPS 1675.3 GFLOPS 214.8 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 1
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Hexagon Yes

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3120x1440 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- VC-1
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- 32 bit@384 kHz
- HD-audio

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X65 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s Up to 1200 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3670 MB/s Up to 150 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 5
Bluetooth version 5.3 4.2
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced December, 2021 yr September, 2017 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8450 Hi3670

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 the clear winner in this comparison.

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