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Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G vs HiSilicon Kirin 960s vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 (SD680, SM6225) is a mid-range ARM-based SoC largely found on Android tablets and smartphones. It features 8 Kryo 265 cores (custom design, 64-Bit capable) that are divided in two clusters. A fast cluster of four cores with up to 2.4 GHz (Kryo 265 Gold - Cortex-A73 derivate) and a power saving efficiency cluster with up to 1.8 GHz (Kryo 265 Silver - Cortex A53 derivate). Both clusters can also be used together. Compared to the older Snapdragon 665, the clock speeds are higher.

In addition to the 8 CPU cores, the SoC integrates a mid range Adreno 610 GPU with a LPDDR4 memory controller (dual-channel)  and supports Wi-Fi (802.11ac + MIMO, max. 867 Mbps), Bluetooth 5, and LTE (X11 LTE modem with up to 390 Mbps download).

The SoC is produced in 6nm (compared to the older 11nm LPP process of the similar Snapdragon 665).

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

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The HiSilicon Kirin 960S is an ARM based mid-range octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablets, which was introduced with the 2018 10.5-inch Huawei MediaPad M5. Compared to the normal Kirin 960, the 960S offers an additional NPU for AI calculations from the Kirin 970. Looks like to be slower clocked than the older Kirin 960.

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.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 680 4GHiSilicon Kirin 960sHiSilicon Kirin 970
SeriesQualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameKryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73) / Silver (Cortex-A53)Cortex-A73/-A53Cortex-A73/-A53
Series: Cortex-A73/-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G1.9 - 2.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73) / Silver (Cortex-A53)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G « 1.8 - 2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73) / Silver (Cortex-A53)
HiSilicon Kirin 9702.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9602.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960s « 2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 7102.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A2 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 960s2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 7102.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
Clock1800 - 2400 MHz2100 MHz2400 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 88 / 8
Technology6 nm16 nm10 nm
FeaturesAdreno 610 GPU, X11 LTE Modem, Hexagon 686 DSP, Spectra 346 ISPARM 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)
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 610ARM Mali-G71 MP8 ( - 900 MHz)ARM Mali-G72 MP12
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.com
Transistors5500 Million

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
14698 Points (12%)
2323 Points (9%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 463     avg: 2480     median: 2709 (31%)     max: 2866 Points
2101 Points (24%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 413     avg: 423.5     median: 422.5 (12%)     max: 436 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 865     avg: 1169     median: 1180 (5%)     max: 1450 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: 1634     avg: 1779     median: 1818.5 (18%)     max: 1844 Points
1634 Points (16%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 4238     avg: 5563     median: 5636 (6%)     max: 6741 Points
5809 Points (6%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1706 Points (23%)
min: 2009     avg: 2010     median: 2010 (27%)     max: 2011 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
5609 Points (14%)
min: 6512     avg: 6519     median: 6519 (16%)     max: 6526 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
5734 Points (9%)
min: 6160     avg: 6205     median: 6204.5 (10%)     max: 6249 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
1756 Points (26%)
min: 1926     avg: 1933     median: 1933 (29%)     max: 1940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
2165 Points (17%)
min: 1993     avg: 2317     median: 2316.5 (19%)     max: 2640 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
3780 Points (34%)
min: 3758     avg: 3857     median: 3857 (35%)     max: 3956 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
10498 Points (21%)
min: 11044     avg: 11246     median: 11245.5 (22%)     max: 11447 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
5303 Points (11%)
min: 5485     avg: 5541     median: 5540.5 (11%)     max: 5596 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
6502 Points (17%)
min: 6800     avg: 6878     median: 6877.5 (18%)     max: 6955 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 2650.1     avg: 3124     median: 3208.7 (4%)     max: 3460.5 ms
5947 ms (7%)
min: 3591     avg: 4378     median: 3875.5 (5%)     max: 6221 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 6358     avg: 11432     median: 12386 (11%)     max: 14279 Points
6802 Points (6%)
min: 6692     avg: 10111     median: 11085 (10%)     max: 11838 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 41     avg: 47.3     median: 45.5 (13%)     max: 57 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 58     avg: 67.8     median: 63.5 (13%)     max: 93 Points
69 Points (14%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
147305 Points (50%)
min: 173653     avg: 177915     median: 178490 (61%)     max: 181973 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
8364 Points (26%)
min: 9493     avg: 13104     median: 13673 (42%)     max: 14768 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
28103 Points (34%)
min: 28440     avg: 42105     median: 44676.5 (55%)     max: 45397 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
33870 Points (11%)
min: 68813     avg: 75722     median: 76492.5 (24%)     max: 81761 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
43350 Points (27%)
min: 46027     avg: 66879     median: 70808.5 (43%)     max: 72307 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
113687 Points (20%)
min: 152773     avg: 197811     median: 206548 (36%)     max: 212278 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 201810     avg: 229317     median: 223076 (14%)     max: 274001 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 57249     avg: 74107     median: 77473 (21%)     max: 83512 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
202050 Points (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 24.93     avg: 27.5     median: 27.5 (20%)     max: 30.06 MB/s
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 233.04     avg: 359.5     median: 359.5 (11%)     max: 485.87 MB/s
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 21.73     avg: 23.1     median: 23.1 (28%)     max: 24.4 MB/s
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 276.09     avg: 483.2     median: 483.2 (13%)     max: 690.35 MB/s
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 14191     avg: 18087     median: 18857 (30%)     max: 19721 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
5114 Points (33%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
5040 Points (25%)
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
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 325     avg: 371     median: 388 (15%)     max: 413 Points
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 2.72     avg: 4.1     median: 3.4 (1%)     max: 7.56 Watt
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 SD 680 +
min: 1.005     avg: 1.4     median: 1.4 (2%)     max: 1.74 Watt

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 4G → 100% n=6

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 960s → 85% n=6

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 970 → 104% n=6

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