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HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

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.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 (SD710) is a fast mid-range ARM-based SoC largely found on Android tablets and smartphones. Announced in early 2018, the SD710 is the first of the 700 series and positions itself between the 600 series (e.g. Snapdragon 660) and 800 series (e.g. Snapdragon 845). It integrates 8 Kryo 360 cores devided in two big cores (most likely based on Cortex-A75 at up to 2.2 GHz) and six small cores (most likely based on Coretx-A55 at up to 1.7 GHz). The memory controller supports LPDDR4X and the integrated graphics card is called Adreno 616. The X15 LTE modem supports 4x4 MIMO with up to 800 MBbit/s download and 150 MBit/s upload.

Compared to the older Snapdragon 660, Qualcomm advertises the CPU clusters to be up to 20% faster and the GPU up to 35 %.

The Snapdragon 710 is manufactured in the modern 10 nm process at Samsung (10LPP).

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 970Qualcomm Snapdragon 710
Series Qualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameCortex-A73/-A53Kryo 360
Series: Snapdragon Kryo 360
HiSilicon Kirin 970 « 2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960 compare2.4 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 compare2.3 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 360
Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 « 2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 360
Clock2400 MHz2200 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 8
Transistors5500 Million
Technology10 nm10 nm
FeaturesARM 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)Adreno 612 GPU, X15 LTE Modem, Hexagon 685 DSP, Specra 250 ISP, GPS, GLONASS, SBAS, Beidou, Galileo
iGPUARM Mali-G72 MP12Qualcomm Adreno 616
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - Geekbench 5.5, PCM Work, Sling Shot Physics, Antutu v8 CPU - SD 710
0.5 pt (41%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 14556     avg: 21027     median: 22026 (19%)     max: 23046 Points
min: 13595     avg: 14925     median: 14595.5 (12%)     max: 18181 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1897     avg: 2707     median: 2819 (33%)     max: 3002 Points
min: 1840     avg: 2330     median: 2477 (29%)     max: 2720 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1891     avg: 2732     median: 2836 (32%)     max: 2983 Points
min: 1862     avg: 2362     median: 2481.5 (28%)     max: 2634 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 392     avg: 393     median: 393 (17%)     max: 394 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 1448     avg: 1478     median: 1478 (3%)     max: 1508 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
386 Points (2%)
394 Points (2%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1655     avg: 1712     median: 1711.5 (5%)     max: 1768 Points
1515 Points (5%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1883     avg: 1901     median: 1901 (19%)     max: 1922 Points
min: 1799     avg: 1819     median: 1821 (18%)     max: 1833 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6557     avg: 6697     median: 6714.5 (7%)     max: 6792 Points
min: 5754     avg: 5843     median: 5850.5 (7%)     max: 5917 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 2009     avg: 2010     median: 2010 (27%)     max: 2011 Points
min: 1835     avg: 1858     median: 1858 (25%)     max: 1881 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6512     avg: 6519     median: 6519 (16%)     max: 6526 Points
min: 5683     avg: 5800     median: 5799.5 (14%)     max: 5916 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6160     avg: 6205     median: 6204.5 (10%)     max: 6249 Points
5600 Points (9%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1926     avg: 1933     median: 1933 (29%)     max: 1940 Points
1769 Points (26%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 710 +
5589 Points (10%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 SD 710 +
1863 Points (36%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 1993     avg: 2317     median: 2316.5 (19%)     max: 2640 Points
min: 787     avg: 1443     median: 1443 (12%)     max: 2099 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 3758     avg: 3857     median: 3857 (35%)     max: 3956 Points
min: 2565     avg: 2600     median: 2599.5 (24%)     max: 2634 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 11044     avg: 11246     median: 11245.5 (22%)     max: 11447 Points
min: 11443     avg: 11547     median: 11546.5 (23%)     max: 11650 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 5485     avg: 5541     median: 5540.5 (11%)     max: 5596 Points
min: 5224     avg: 5235     median: 5234.5 (11%)     max: 5245 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 6800     avg: 6878     median: 6877.5 (18%)     max: 6955 Points
min: 6446     avg: 6539     median: 6539 (17%)     max: 6632 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 3591     avg: 4378     median: 3875.5 (5%)     max: 6221 ms
min: 3035     avg: 3370     median: 3367.5 (4%)     max: 3800 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 6692     avg: 10111     median: 11085 (10%)     max: 11838 Points
min: 9771     avg: 11817     median: 12364.5 (11%)     max: 12802 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
69 Points (14%)
min: 57     avg: 66.2     median: 69.5 (14%)     max: 72 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 173653     avg: 177915     median: 178490 (61%)     max: 181973 Points
min: 135848     avg: 136892     median: 137134 (47%)     max: 137693 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 9493     avg: 13104     median: 13673 (42%)     max: 14768 Points
min: 3343     avg: 6694     median: 7636 (23%)     max: 8159 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 28440     avg: 42105     median: 44676.5 (55%)     max: 45397 Points
min: 43917     avg: 44744     median: 44198 (54%)     max: 46663 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 68813     avg: 75722     median: 76492.5 (24%)     max: 81761 Points
min: 37446     avg: 45655     median: 47945 (15%)     max: 49284 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 46027     avg: 66879     median: 70808.5 (43%)     max: 72307 Points
min: 63606     avg: 65473     median: 65728.5 (40%)     max: 66830 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 152773     avg: 197811     median: 206548 (36%)     max: 212278 Points
min: 155113     avg: 162553     median: 162918 (29%)     max: 169262 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 7553     avg: 26433     median: 26433 (22%)     max: 45313 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 36796     avg: 41477     median: 41477 (33%)     max: 46158 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 49409     avg: 52655     median: 52655 (10%)     max: 55901 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 67712     avg: 68330     median: 68330 (25%)     max: 68948 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
100%
1 SD 710 +
min: 172068     avg: 188895     median: 188895 (18%)     max: 205722 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
202050 Points (27%)
min: 178496     avg: 180262     median: 180127 (24%)     max: 182163 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
596 min (11%)
min: 368     avg: 554     median: 553.5 (11%)     max: 739 min
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
min: 4617     avg: 4787     median: 4730 (25%)     max: 5015 Points
min: 3402     avg: 3476     median: 3491 (18%)     max: 3518 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
min: 14120     avg: 14492     median: 14670 (31%)     max: 14687 Points
min: 4719     avg: 4933     median: 4820.5 (10%)     max: 5372 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 6293     avg: 6860     median: 6957 (45%)     max: 7046 Points
min: 6453     avg: 6824     median: 6762.5 (44%)     max: 7460 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 8115     avg: 8537     median: 8484.5 (42%)     max: 9326 Points
min: 7041     avg: 8137     median: 8201 (41%)     max: 9345 Points

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 970 → 100% n=31

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 → 86% n=31

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