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HiSilicon Kirin 970

HiSilicon Kirin 970
  • GPU: Mali-G72 MP12
  • Cores: 8
  • Clock: 2360 MHz
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.

Review

CPU Performance
20
Gaming Performance
8
Battery life
67
NanoReview Score
26
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Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 970
470805
CPU 175802
GPU 62679
Memory 126756
UX 105568
Total score 470805
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
420
Multi-Core Score
1617
Asset compression 87.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 53.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 61.4 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 16 images/sec
HDR 62.2 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 2.91 images/sec
Photo processing 11.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.52 Mpixels/sec
Samples 5 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
3953
Background blur 6.13 images/sec
Face detection 3.98 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.22 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 15 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 409.5 FPS
API Vulkan
Samples 2 tests

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
6591
Web score 5445
Video editing score 5083
Data manipulation score 5647
Photo editing score 11646
Writing score 6779
Phones tested Less than 3

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-08 (tigersusyt)AnTuTu 11507642
📘 2026-01-15 (DQP)AnTuTu 11492523
📘 2025-12-12 (Tran loc)AnTuTu 11460393
📘 2025-10-19 (Realalex021)AnTuTu 11470805
📘 2024-09-30 (danicabello2010)Geekbench 6 CPU422 / 1376
📘 2024-07-21 (Guest #5)Geekbench 6 CPU420 / 1617
📘 2024-01-02 (Пользователь huiвынь)Geekbench 6 GPU3953
📘 2024-01-02 (Пользователь huiвынь)Geekbench 6 CPU417 / 1480
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Smartphones

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Phones with Kirin 970AnTuTu v11
1. Honor 10492523
2. Huawei P20 Pro460393

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
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 9 W
Manufacturing TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G72 MP12
Architecture Bifrost 2nd gen
GPU frequency 746 MHz
Pipelines 12
Shading units 12
Total shaders 144
FLOPS 214.8 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1
OpenCL version 2.0

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS
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, Galileo

Info

Announced September 2017
Class Flagship
Model number Hi3670
Official page HiSilicon Kirin 970 official site
Successor - HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

Comparison with competitors

1. HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 695
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David Guerreiro February 22, 2026 at 02:27 PM
The best in 2017 and at moment continue to be a very good processor Kirin Ai, is near D 7300 ultra of 2025, whit more stability and control of image IA and batery, in Huawei 20 pro.
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Joe April 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
GPU frequency 768 -> 746 MHz Shading units 18 -> 12 Total shaders 216 -> 144 FLOPS 331.8 -> 214.8 Gigaflops
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The NightShot July 21, 2024 at 02:35 PM
Hi. The Kirin 970's Mali G72 MP12 score on Wildlife is far higher than 827. That result is heavily throttled. Please consider looking for a better source and/or adding the possibility for the users to add their own results like it's possible for the Geekbench 6 and AnTuTu V10 scores.
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Hidayet Memedov March 26, 2025 at 06:16 PM
3D Mark score?.........
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