Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970: performance

Performance comparison between the two processors, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and the HiSilicon Kirin 970. The first has a turbo frequency of 2,5 GHz, with 8 cores, and the second has a maximum frequency of 2,4 GHz, with a total of 8 cores.

Geekbench 4:

Processeur	Geekbench 4 – Score multi-core & single-core – Android 64-bit
HiSilicon Kirin 970	1 890  6 648
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835	1 855  6 324

Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, image encryption, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML rendering, PDF rendering, Matrix calculation, Fast Fourier Transformation, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these two chips. For each result, we took an average of the last 250 values on the famous benchmark software.

On the single-core side, the difference is 2%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 5%.

AnTuTu:

Processeur	AnTuTu – Score
HiSilicon Kirin 970	205 987
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835	199 273

AnTuTu is one of the most popular benchmarking application to test mobile devices. It calculates the CPU integer, the CPU float-point, the runtime, the multitask, RAM operation, RAM speed, 2D and 3D graphics, the storage I/O, database I/O, etc.

On this application, there is a difference of 3%.