HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G vs HiSilicon Kirin 970. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  6 6
• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 810/820 HiSilicon Kirin 970

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.84 GHz 1.84 GHz
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.22 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  1.84 GHz 2.40 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  3x Cortex-A76 4x Cortex-A73
• B core
  3x Cortex-A55 4x Cortex-A53

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-G57 MP6 ARM Mali-G72 MP12
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz 0.75 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6 12
• Shader
  96 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  Vallhall 1 Bifrost 2
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  7 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q3/2017

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 970 and HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 LPDDR4X-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  4 4

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G and HiSilicon Kirin 970 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  6 W 9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G and HiSilicon Kirin 820E 5G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Technology
  7 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q3/2017