MediaTek Dimensity 9500 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 4.21 GHz – C1-Ultra3x 3.5 GHz – C1-Premium4x 2.7 GHz – C1-Pro
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Frequency
4210 MHz
2360 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L3 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
10 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
512 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Transistor count
—
5.5
TDP
—
9 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G1 Ultra MP12
Mali-G72 MP12
GPU frequency
1750 MHz
768 MHz
Shading units
128
18
Vulkan version
1.4
1.3
OpenCL version
3.0
2.0
DirectX version
12.1
12
Execution units
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
1866 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
85.3 Gb/s
29.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 990
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Theoretical Performance
100 TOPS
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Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
UFS 2.1
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Yes
Max display resolution
—
3120 x 1440
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 10700 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
Upload speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Sep 2017
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
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Hi3670
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
4,011,932
355,946
Geekbench 6
3,781
386
Geekbench 6
12,189
1,377
FP32 (float)
5,376
331
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.