HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 970 with HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G. 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?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53	2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores	8	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	10 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors	5500 million	8000 million
TDP	9 Watt	6 Watt
Neural Processing	HiSilicon NPU	Ascend Lite + Ascend Tiny, HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture, HiAI 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 8 GB	up to 12 GB
Memory type	LPDDR4	LPDDR4X
Memory frequency	1866 MHz	2133 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

UFS 3.0

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G72 MP12	Mali-G76 MP16
GPU Architecture	Bifrost	Bifrost
GPU frequency	750 MHz	600 MHz
Execution units	12	16
Shaders	192	256
DirectX	12	12
OpenCL API	2.0	2.0
Vulkan API	1.0	1.1

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	2340x1080	3360x1440@60Hz
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) VC-1 VP8 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)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	4.2	5.0
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS