Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus vs Hisilicon Kirin 970
We’ve created an extensive comparison of the latest Dimensity 9000 Plus vs Kirin 970 SoCs, manufactured by Mediatek and Hisilicon respectively. We’ve assessed the strengths and weaknesses of these 8-core processors based on Geekbench, Antutu, and 3DMark results, along with a detailed look at their technical specifications.
Review
CPU Performance
Evaluation of Single-Core and
Multi-Core Processor Performance
Gaming Performance
Gaming and OpenCL/Vulkan
Performance of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Battery life
Energy Efficiency in Battery Usage
Tech Insist Score
Overall Performance Rating of the
Chip
Key Differences
Pros of Dimensity 9000 Plus
- Dimensity 9000 Plus has 35.59% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 2360 MHz).
- Dimensity 9000 Plus has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
- Dimensity 9000 Plus has 290.02 % better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1147 K vs 294 K).
- Dimensity 9000 Plus has the latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
- Dimensity 9000 Plus supports 101.34 % higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 ( 60 vs 29.8 MHz).
- Dimensity 9000 Plus supports 113.33 % higher download speed than Kirin 970 ( 2560 vs 1200 Mbps).
Pros of Kirin 970
- Kirin 970 has 150.00 % smaller sized transistor than Dimensity 9000 Plus ( 10 vs 4 nm).
Benchmarks
Evaluating performance through competitive testing in leading benchmarks.AnTuTu 10
| CPU | 291317 | 77046 |
| GPU | 430867 | 90560 |
| Memory | 218270 | 66398 |
| UX | 206140 | 59977 |
| Total score | 1146594 | 293981 |
GeekBench 6
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
3DMark
3DMark Wild Life Performance
| Stability | 86% | 80% |
| Graphics test | 51 FPS | 6 FPS |
| Score | 8685 | 1050 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Dimensity 9000 Plus and Dimensity 9300CPU
| Architecture | 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2 3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510 |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1800MHz | 1840MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 3200MHz | 2360MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8-A |
| L2 cache | 1024 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 3.5 MB | 0.5 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Process | 4 nanometers | 10 nanometers |
| Transistor count | - | 5.5 billion |
| TDP (Sustained Power Limit) | 4 W | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G710 MC10 | Mali G72 MP12 |
| Architecture | Valhall 3 | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | - | 850 MHz |
| Pipelines | 10 | 12 |
| Shading units | 512 | 192 |
| Total shaders | 1024 | 384 |
| FLOPS | - | 347 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Dedicated NPU |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5x | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 3750 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | - | - |
| Max bandwidth | 60 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | UFS 2.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2960 x 1440 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 |
| Audio codecs | AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC | 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio |
Connectivity
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Download speed 5G | Up to 7168 Mbps | - |
| Download speed 4G | Up to 2560 Mbps | Up to 1200 Mbps |
| Upload speed 5G | Up to 2560 Mbps | - |
| Upload speed 4G | Up to 316 Mbps | Up to 150 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.3 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced | July 2022 | September 2017 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | - | Hi3670 |
| Official page | Dimensity 9000 Plus official site | Kirin 970 official site |