HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 7420
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A574x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
2360 MHz
2100 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
512 KB
—
L2 cache
0
0
L3 cache
0
—
Process
10 nm
14 nm
Transistor count
5.5
2
TDP
9 W
7 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
Mali-T760 MP8
GPU frequency
768 MHz
772 MHz
Execution units
12
8
Shading units
18
16
Vulkan version
1.3
1.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.2
DirectX version
12
11
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
—
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
24.8 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
No
Storage type
UFS 2.1
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
2560 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
1x 24MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
No
No
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 450 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
4
Bluetooth
4.2
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2017
Apr 2015
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3670
—
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
355,946
205,159
Geekbench 6
386
195
Geekbench 6
1,377
840
FP32 (float)
331
197
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.