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Kirin 960 chipset announced: much faster GPU, better power use

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Peter 19 October 2016

Huawei Mobile hardware

HiSilicon unveiled the new Kirin 960 chipset, which puts the Huawei-owned chip maker a step ahead of the competition. With the Huawei Mate 9 around the corner, you have to wonder how long we’ll wait before we see a 960-powered device.

The new chipset is built on a 16nm FinFET process by TSMC (like the 955 before it), but uses newer parts. The octa-core processor now has four Cortex-A73 cores forming the powerful half balanced by four Cortex-A53 cores. HiSilicon is promising a 15% performance boost, also the A73 promises sustained performance thanks to power savings compared to the A72 (less heat = less throttling).

Opening 14 apps in a timed test CPU performance
Opening 14 apps in a timed test • CPU performance

The Kirin 960 will be among the first chips to use ARM’s new Bifrost GPU - the Mali-G71 promises reduced power use compared to the T880 used in Kirin 955, Exynos 8, Helio X25 and others. Also, HiSilicon put eight GPU cores, up from the four it used on its previous high-end chipset. In total, this leads to a massive 180% jump in performance coupled with 20% power savings.

GPU performance
GPU performance

The new chipset has more to offer as well - it supports UFS 2.1 for blazing fast flash storage, LPDDR4 RAM and an LTE Cat. 12/13 modem (up to 600Mbps down, 150Mbps up). CDMA is also supported for markets like China and the US. The ISP is also upgraded for improved image quality.

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  • Q5H
  • 28 Oct 2016

It's not a matter of being nerdy enough, you need to be well informed or lectured regarding a topic in which you are going to post your opinion.

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  • That guy
  • Q5H
  • 27 Oct 2016

Yeah, that ought to be a great toaster

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  • babu samuel
  • D0c
  • 24 Oct 2016

when is the releasing date? eagerly awaiting. WAV and Flac formats will work??

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