HiSilicon Kirin 970

HiSilicon Kirin 970 – an 8-core chipset that was announced on September 1, 2017, and is manufactured using a 10-nanometer process technology. It has 4 cores Cortex A73 at 2360 MHz and 4 cores Cortex A53 at 1840 MHz.

CPU Performance

40

Gaming Performance

36

Battery life

67

NanoReview Score

46

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)

390

Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

1367

AnTuTu Benchmark 8

235512

Smartphones

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Phones with Kirin 970	AnTuTu v8
1. Huawei P20 Pro	264235
2. Huawei Nova 3	231605
3. Huawei P20	230619
4. Huawei Honor 10	222968
5. Huawei Mate 10	-
6. Huawei Nova 4	-
7. Huawei Honor Note 10	-

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the Kirin 970 SoC with Mali G72 MP12 graphics

CPU

Architecture	4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores	8
Frequency	2360 MHz
Instruction set	ARMv8-A
L1 cache	512 KB
L2 cache	2 MB
Process	10 nanometers
Transistor count	5.5 billion

Graphics

GPU name	Mali G72 MP12
Architecture	Bifrost
GPU frequency	746 MHz
Cores	12
FLOPS	347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version	1.0
OpenCL version	1.2
DirectX version	12

Memory

Memory type	LPDDR4
Memory frequency	1833 MHz
Bus	4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth	29 Gbit/s
Max size	8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)	Yes
Storage type	UFS 2.1
Max display resolution	3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution	1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture	4K at 30FPS
Video playback	4K at 60FPS
Video codecs	H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs	32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

4G support	LTE Cat. 18
5G support	No
Download speed	Up to 1200 Mbps
Upload speed	Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi	5
Bluetooth	4.2
Navigation	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Announced	September 2017
Class	Flagship
Official page	HiSilicon Kirin 970 official site