HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Intel Core i7-11375H

Last updated: 2023-04-03

CPU comparison with benchmarks


HiSilicon Kirin 970		Intel Core i7-11375H
CPU comparison HiSilicon Kirin 970 or Intel Core i7-11375H - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The HiSilicon Kirin 970 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.40 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 970 was released in Q3/2017. The Intel Core i7-11375H has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-11375H was released in Q1/2021.

HiSilicon Kirin (29)	Family	Intel Core i7 (298)
HiSilicon Kirin 970 (1)	CPU group	Intel Core i 11000H (17)
6	Generation	11
Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53	Architecture	Tiger Lake H
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The HiSilicon Kirin 970 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.40 GHz. The Intel Core i7-11375H has 4 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.30 GHz (5.00 GHz).
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-11375H
8	Cores	4
8	Threads	8
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	No
2.40 GHz 4x Cortex-A73	A-Core	3.30 GHz (5.00 GHz)
1.84 GHz 4x Cortex-A53	B-Core	--
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-11375H
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
ARM Mali-G72 MP12	GPU	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Tiger Lake)
0.75 GHz	GPU frequency	0.40 GHz
--	GPU (Turbo)	1.35 GHz
Bifrost 2	GPU Generation	12
16 nm	Technology	10 nm
1	Max. displays	4
12	Compute units	96
192	Shader	768
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
2 GB	Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
12	DirectX Version	12

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
ARM Mali-G72 MP12	GPU	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Tiger Lake)
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode
No	Codec AV1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The HiSilicon Kirin 970 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-11375H can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-11375H
LPDDR4X-2133	Memory	LPDDR4X-4266, DDR4-3200
8 GB	Max. Memory	64 GB
4 (Quad Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
--	Max. Bandwidth	68.2 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	5.00 MB
2.00 MB	L3 Cache	12.00 MB
--	PCIe version	4.0
--	PCIe lanes	4
--	PCIe Bandwidth	7.9 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The HiSilicon Kirin 970 has a TDP of 9 W, that of the Intel Core i7-11375H is 35 W.
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-11375H
9 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	35 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	28 W
--	Tjunction max.	100 °C
Technical details The HiSilicon Kirin 970 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the Intel Core i7-11375H cache has a total of 17.00 MB.
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Characteristic	Intel Core i7-11375H
10 nm	Technology	10 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
--	Socket	BGA 1526
None	Virtualization	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No	AES-NI	Yes
Android	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2017	Release date	Q1/2021
--	Release price	482 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

HiSilicon Kirin 970 (22%)

Intel Core i7-11375H (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

HiSilicon Kirin 970 (26%)

Intel Core i7-11375H (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	349 (22%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 5.00 GHz	1592 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	1455 (26%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz	5690 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 ARM Mali-G72 MP12 @ 0.75 GHz	330 (16%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Tiger Lake) @ 1.35 GHz	2070 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 5.00 GHz	1574 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz	6620 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 5.00 GHz	1948 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz	5610 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 5.00 GHz	610 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz	2564 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	HiSilicon Kirin 970 8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i7-11375H 4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz	12277 (100%)

Devices using this processor
HiSilicon Kirin 970	Intel Core i7-11375H
Huawei Honor 10 Huawei Note 10 Huawei Play Huawei Honor View 10 Huawei Mate 10 Pro Huawei P20 Huawei Nova 3 Huawei Nova 4	Unknown

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