HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 970 with HiSilicon Kirin 9020. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

Kirin 970

318577

Kirin 9020

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 970

389

Kirin 9020

1598

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 970

1502

Kirin 9020

5114

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53	2x 2.5 GHz – Taishan V121 6x 2.15 GHz – Taishan V120 4x 1.6 GHz – Taishan-Little
Number of cores	8	12
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A	ARMv8-A
Lithography	10 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors	5500 million
TDP	9 Watt
Neural Processing	HiSilicon NPU	HUAWEI Da Vinci

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 8 GB	up to 16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR4	LPDDR5X
Memory frequency	1866 MHz	4266 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G72 MP12	Maleoon 920
GPU Architecture	Mali Bifrost	Huawei Maleoon
GPU frequency	750 MHz	840 MHz
Execution units	12	2
Shaders	192	1024
DirectX	12	12
OpenCL API	2.0	2.0
Vulkan API	1.0	1.3

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	2340x1080	3840x2160
Max camera resolution	1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max Video Capture	4K@30fps	4K@60fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	1.2 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	0.15 Gbps
Wi-Fi	5 (802.11ac)	7 (802.11be)
Bluetooth	4.2	5.4
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC QZSS