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HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz

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.

MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz

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The MediaTek MT8163 V/B is an ARM based entry-level to mid-range SoC for (Android based) tablets. It offers four ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores (quad-core) that are clocked with up to 1.3 GHz. Furthermore, an ARM Mali-T720 MP2 graphics card clocked at 520 MHz, a DDR3x32 1600Mbps memory controller, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 b/g/n, GPS and FM are integrated in the SoC.

The similar named MediaTek MT8163 V/A is the faster version, with a CPU clock o up to 1.5 GHz and GPU of up to 600 MHz.

The performance is situated in the entry level of 2015 and often similar to the Kirin 910T (see benchmark below).

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 970MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz
Series Mediatek
CodenameCortex-A73/-A53Cortex-A53
Series: Cortex-A53
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
JLQ JR510 compare1.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 935 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 659 compare2.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 658 compare2.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 655 compare2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 650 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 930 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 620 compare1.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz « 1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8161 compare1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA1908 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock2400 MHz1300 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 84 / 4
Transistors5500 Million
Technology10 nm28 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)DDR3x32 memory controller 1600Mbps, T720 MP2@520MHz, internal Display up to 1366x768, HMID up to 1080p, H.265 1080p video decode, 13MP image signal processor, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, embedded GPS module, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio support, ARM TrustZone
iGPUARM Mali-G72 MP12ARM Mali-T720 MP2 (520 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 14556     avg: 21027     median: 22026 (19%)     max: 23046 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1897     avg: 2707     median: 2819 (33%)     max: 3002 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1891     avg: 2732     median: 2836 (32%)     max: 2983 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: 1883     avg: 1901     median: 1901 (19%)     max: 1922 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6557     avg: 6697     median: 6714.5 (7%)     max: 6792 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 2009     avg: 2010     median: 2010 (27%)     max: 2011 Points
601 Points (8%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6512     avg: 6519     median: 6519 (16%)     max: 6526 Points
1583 Points (4%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6160     avg: 6205     median: 6204.5 (10%)     max: 6249 Points
min: 1888     avg: 1930     median: 1930 (3%)     max: 1972 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1926     avg: 1933     median: 1933 (29%)     max: 1940 Points
min: 617     avg: 638     median: 638 (10%)     max: 659 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: 3591     avg: 4378     median: 3875.5 (5%)     max: 6221 ms
min: 11818     avg: 13133     median: 13321.5 (16%)     max: 14321 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 6692     avg: 10111     median: 11085 (10%)     max: 11838 Points
min: 2821     avg: 2929     median: 2853.5 (3%)     max: 3320 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
69 Points (14%)
min: 23     avg: 23.7     median: 23 (5%)     max: 25 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 173653     avg: 177915     median: 178490 (61%)     max: 181973 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 9493     avg: 13104     median: 13673 (42%)     max: 14768 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 28440     avg: 42105     median: 44676.5 (55%)     max: 45397 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 68813     avg: 75722     median: 76492.5 (24%)     max: 81761 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 46027     avg: 66879     median: 70808.5 (43%)     max: 72307 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 152773     avg: 197811     median: 206548 (36%)     max: 212278 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
202050 Points (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
596 min (11%)
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
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 6293     avg: 6860     median: 6957 (45%)     max: 7046 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 8115     avg: 8537     median: 8484.5 (42%)     max: 9326 Points

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 970 → 100% n=20

Average Benchmarks MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz → 33% n=20

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