HiSilicon Kirin 960 – an 8-core chipset that was announced on October 19, 2016, and is manufactured using a 16-nanometer process technology. It has 4 cores Cortex-A73 at 2360 MHz and 4 cores Cortex-A53 at 1840 MHz.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
AnTuTu 8
The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 960
205979
CPU |
67614 |
GPU |
55348 |
Memory |
49985 |
UX |
43847 |
Total score |
205979 |
GeekBench 5
The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Image compression |
82.7 Mpixels/s |
Face detection |
12.5 images/s |
Speech recognition |
28.75 words/s |
Machine learning |
21.45 images/s |
Camera shooting |
11.8 images/s |
HTML 5 |
1.79 Mnodes/s |
SQLite |
453.85 Krows/s |
Smartphones
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Specifications
Detailed specifications of the Kirin 960 SoC with Mali-G71 MP8 graphics
Architecture |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
Cores |
8 |
Frequency |
2360 MHz |
Instruction set |
ARMv8-A |
L1 cache |
64 KB |
L2 cache |
4 MB |
Process |
16 nanometers |
Transistor count |
4 billion |
TDP |
5 W |
GPU name |
Mali-G71 MP8 |
Architecture |
Bifrost |
GPU frequency |
1037 MHz |
Execution units |
8 |
Shading units |
128 |
FLOPS |
282 Gigaflops |
Vulkan version |
1.0 |
OpenCL version |
1.2 |
DirectX version |
11.3 |
Memory type |
LPDDR4 |
Memory frequency |
1800 MHz |
Bus |
2x 32 Bit |
Max bandwidth |
28.8 Gbit/s |
Max size |
4 GB |
Neural processor (NPU) |
No |
Storage type |
UFS 2.1 |
Max display resolution |
2520 x 1080 |
Max camera resolution |
2x 16MP |
Video capture |
4K at 30FPS |
Video playback |
4K at 30FPS |
Video codecs |
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 |
Audio codecs |
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
4G support |
LTE Cat. 13 |
5G support |
No |
Download speed |
Up to 600 Mbps |
Upload speed |
Up to 150 Mbps |
Wi-Fi |
5 |
Bluetooth |
4.2 |
Navigation |
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Announced |
October 2016 |
Class |
Flagship |
Comparison with competitors