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HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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The HiSilicon Kirin 960 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 9 in November 2016. Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G71 MP8 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE Cat. 12/13 modem. It is one of the fastest ARM SoCs in the end of 2016. The Kirin 960 is manufactured in a modern 16-nm process at TSMC.

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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The HiSilicon Kirin 970 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 10 in late 2017. Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G72 MP12 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE (4x4 MIMO, 5-band-carrier-aggregation, QAM-256, up to 1.2 Gbit/s) modem.

The performance cluster is clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and the four A53 power saving cores with up to 1.8 GHz. The performance should improve by about 20 percent according to Huawei and the power consumption reduced by 20 percent.

On the chip HiSilicon also included a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for running machine learning tasks very efficiently compared to the CPU cores.

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 960HiSilicon Kirin 970
Series
CodenameCortex-A73/-A53Cortex-A73/-A53
Series: Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9702.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960 « 2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960s compare2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 970 « 2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9602.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960s compare2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
Clock2400 MHz2400 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Technology16 nm10 nm
FeaturesARM Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x 32 Bit LPDDR4 Memory ControllerARM Mali-G71 MP12 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x LTE Dual-SIM (4x4-MIMO, QAM-256, up to 1,2 Gbit/s)
iGPUARM Mali-G71 MP8 ( - 900 MHz)ARM Mali-G72 MP12
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Transistors5500 Million

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 14456     avg: 15019     median: 15116.5 (13%)     max: 15341 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1817     avg: 2147     median: 2018 (24%)     max: 2552 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1960     avg: 2151     median: 2110 (24%)     max: 2296 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
386 Points (2%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1655     avg: 1712     median: 1711.5 (5%)     max: 1768 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1852     avg: 1875     median: 1869 (19%)     max: 1899 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6173     avg: 6384     median: 6445 (7%)     max: 6527 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1935     avg: 1941     median: 1941 (26%)     max: 1947 Points
min: 2009     avg: 2010     median: 2010 (27%)     max: 2011 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5629     avg: 5833     median: 5832.5 (14%)     max: 6036 Points
min: 6512     avg: 6519     median: 6519 (16%)     max: 6526 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6160     avg: 6205     median: 6204.5 (10%)     max: 6249 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1926     avg: 1933     median: 1933 (29%)     max: 1940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 1993     avg: 2317     median: 2316.5 (19%)     max: 2640 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 3758     avg: 3857     median: 3857 (35%)     max: 3956 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 11044     avg: 11246     median: 11245.5 (22%)     max: 11447 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 5485     avg: 5541     median: 5540.5 (11%)     max: 5596 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 6800     avg: 6878     median: 6877.5 (18%)     max: 6955 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 2734     avg: 3226     median: 3149 (4%)     max: 3734 ms
min: 3591     avg: 4378     median: 3875.5 (5%)     max: 6221 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 10016     avg: 10823     median: 10236 (9%)     max: 11897 Points
min: 6692     avg: 10111     median: 11085 (10%)     max: 11838 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 68     avg: 70     median: 70 (15%)     max: 72 Points
69 Points (14%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 2743     avg: 3060     median: 3059.5 (82%)     max: 3376 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 4471     avg: 4481     median: 4481 (100%)     max: 4491 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 7346     avg: 7456     median: 7455.5 (98%)     max: 7565 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 124087     avg: 143408     median: 146044 (50%)     max: 157445 Points
min: 173653     avg: 177915     median: 178490 (61%)     max: 181973 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 10520     avg: 11264     median: 11146.5 (34%)     max: 12244 Points
min: 9493     avg: 13104     median: 13673 (42%)     max: 14768 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 40636     avg: 41957     median: 42032.5 (52%)     max: 43125 Points
min: 28440     avg: 42105     median: 44676.5 (55%)     max: 45397 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 59256     avg: 62050     median: 61700 (19%)     max: 65542 Points
min: 68813     avg: 75722     median: 76492.5 (24%)     max: 81761 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 57275     avg: 59357     median: 58913.5 (36%)     max: 62327 Points
min: 46027     avg: 66879     median: 70808.5 (43%)     max: 72307 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 170015     avg: 174560     median: 173306 (31%)     max: 181614 Points
min: 152773     avg: 197811     median: 206548 (36%)     max: 212278 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 256749     avg: 264076     median: 264076 (35%)     max: 271402 Points
202050 Points (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
677 min (13%)
596 min (11%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 6006     avg: 6136     median: 6134 (40%)     max: 6299 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 6830     avg: 7199     median: 7341 (37%)     max: 7403 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
min: 4617     avg: 4787     median: 4730 (25%)     max: 5015 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
min: 14120     avg: 14492     median: 14670 (31%)     max: 14687 Points

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 960 → 100% n=20

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 970 → 113% n=20

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