HiSilicon Kirin 960
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
Specifications
CPU
| 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 |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-G71 MP8 |
| Architecture | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 1037 MHz |
| Cores | 8 |
| FLOPS | 282 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 |
| DirectX version | 11.3 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4 |
| Memory frequency | 1800 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 28.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| 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 |
Connectivity
| 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 |
Info
| Announced | October 2016 |
| Class | Flagship |
Comparison with competitors
- HiSilicon Kirin 980 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- HiSilicon Kirin 970 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- HiSilicon Kirin 710 and HiSilicon Kirin 960
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G and HiSilicon Kirin 960