Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
3200 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L2 cache
2.75 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
0
Process
4 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
512 KB
Transistor count
-
5.5
TDP
-
9 W

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 825
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
1150 MHz
768 MHz
Execution units
-
12
Shading units
-
18
Vulkan version
-
1.3
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
12

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
29.8 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Hexagon
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 2.1
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Yes

Connectivity

5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 4200 Mbps
Up to 1200 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
-
LTE Cat. 18
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps

Info

Announced
Apr 2025
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8735
Hi3670
Official page

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,186,467
355,946
Geekbench 6
2,159
386
Geekbench 6
7,227
1,377
FP32 (float)
-
331