The Snapdragon 865 is more powerful.
Kirin 970 and Snapdragon 865 chip compared, the Snapdragon 865 chip is stronger. The Kirin 970 chip uses TSMC's 10nm process chip with a maximum dominant frequency of 2.4GHz and was released on September 2, 2017. The Snapdragon 865, released in December 2019, uses TSMC's 7nm FFP process with a frequency of up to 2.84G Hertz, a \"Qualcomm tri-cluster design\" and a Kryo CPU architecture. As far as the CPU part is concerned, the Kirin 970 is not very different from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 in general, but there is still a big gap with the Snapdragon 865.
Compared with the Kirin 970 and the Snapdragon 865, it must be the Snapdragon 865 is stronger, because the two processors are not from the same period, the Snapdragon 865 is a high-end processor released in 2019, the manufacturing process is 7 nm, and it belongs to the 5g processor, and the architecture is the g77 core. The Kirin 970 is a high-end processor released in 2017, the manufacturing process is 10 nm, g76 large core, 4g processor. Therefore, whether it is the process technology level or architecture, communication baseband, Snapdragon 865 is better than Kirin 970
In terms of overall performance, Kirin 970 is worse than Snapdragon 865, and the target of Snapdragon 865 is Kirin 980, which is between the two chips