HiSilicon Kirin 970

The HiSilicon Kirin 970 operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 2.40 GHz base 2.40 GHz all cores.

TDP: 9 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

2.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 4 memory channels to support LPDDR4X-2133 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 10 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q3/2017.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Family:

HiSilicon Kirin

CPU group:

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.84 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.40 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR4X-2133

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR4X-2133

GPU name:

ARM Mali-G72 MP12

GPU frequency:

0.75 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

192

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

10 nm

Release date:

Q3/2017

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

2.00 MB

Release date:

Q3/2017

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

9 W

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

Intel Pentium 3556U 353 (19%)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 352 (19%)

Intel Core i3-3227U 350 (19%)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 349 (18%)

AMD A4-3400 349 (18%)

AMD A4-4000 348 (18%)

AMD A4-3420 348 (18%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

Intel Core i3-3250 1466 (4%)

AMD A8-6600K 1461 (4%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 1461 (4%)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 1455 (4%)

Intel Atom C2750 1449 (4%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 1447 (4%)

Intel Core i5-5350U 1447 (4%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

Intel Core i7-3540M 333 (3%)

Intel Core i7-3740QM 333 (3%)

Intel Core i7-3920XM 333 (3%)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 330 (3%)

MediaTek Dimensity 720 327 (3%)

Intel Core i3-5015U 326 (3%)

Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y 326 (3%)