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.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 8
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 970
231504
| CPU |
66289 |
| GPU |
73245 |
| Memory |
50039 |
| UX |
41387 |
| Total score |
231504 |
GeekBench 5
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
| Image compression |
90.1 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection |
11.4 images/s |
| Speech recognition |
24.4 words/s |
| Machine learning |
21.3 images/s |
| Camera shooting |
11.2 images/s |
| HTML 5 |
1.59 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite |
415.6 Krows/s |
Smartphones
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Specifications
Detailed specifications of the Kirin 970 SoC with Mali G72 MP12 graphics
| 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 |
9 W |
| GPU name |
Mali G72 MP12 |
| Architecture |
Bifrost |
| GPU frequency |
746 MHz |
| Execution units |
12 |
| Shading units |
192 |
| FLOPS |
347 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version |
1.0 |
| OpenCL version |
2.0 |
| DirectX version |
12 |
| Memory type |
LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency |
1866 MHz |
| Bus |
4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth |
29 Gbit/s |
| Max size |
8 GB |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Announced |
September 2017 |
| Class |
Flagship |
Comparison with competitors
