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.
Benchmarks
Specifications
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 |