HiSilicon Kirin 970

The Kirin 970 is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. It has 8 cores and was announced in 2017 September. It has "big.LITTLE" cores-set: 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz), 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz). The processor is manufactured using a 10 nm process technology and supports UFS 2.1, 4G, LPDDR4.

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

Kirin 970

318577

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 970

389

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 970

1502

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Number of cores	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A
Lithography	10 nm
Number of transistors	5500 million
TDP	9 Watt
Neural Processing	HiSilicon NPU

Memory (RAM)

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

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G72 MP12
GPU Architecture	Mali Bifrost
GPU frequency	750 MHz
Execution units	12
Shaders	192
DirectX	12
OpenCL API	2.0
Vulkan API	1.0

Camera, Video, Display

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

Wireless

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