HiSilicon Kirin 960

HiSilicon Kirin 960
  • GPU: Mali-G71 MP8
  • Cores: 8
  • Clock: 2360 MHz
HiSilicon Kirin 960 โ€“ 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.

Review

CPU Performance
17
Gaming Performance
5
Battery life
53
NanoReview Score
21
Compare HiSilicon Kirin 960 with other SoCs

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
HiSilicon Kirin 960
366515
CPU 134649
GPU 37113
Memory 87722
UX 107031
Total score 366515

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
403
Multi-Core Score
1147
Asset compression 80.6 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 50.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 50.1 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 11.8 images/sec
HDR 36.7 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 2.04 images/sec
Photo processing 9.64 images/sec
Ray tracing 978.5 Mpixels/sec
Samples Less than 3
Compute Score (GPU)
1191
Background blur 5.65 images/sec
Face detection 3.43 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 10.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 410 FPS
API OpenCL

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2023-11-29 (antonio chen)Geekbench 6 CPU403 / 1147

Specifications

Detailed specifications of the Kirin 960 SoC with Mali-G71 MP8 graphics

CPU

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz โ€“ Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz โ€“ 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 (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W
Manufacturing TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G71 MP8
Architecture Bifrost 1st gen
GPU frequency 1037 MHz
Pipelines 8
Shading units 12
Total shaders 96
FLOPS 199.1 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3
OpenCL version 2.0

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) No

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4
Memory frequency 1600 MHz
Bus 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 28.8 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2560 x 1600
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. 12
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
Model number Hi3660
Successor - HiSilicon Kirin 9000S

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Joe April 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Shading units 16 -> 12 Total shaders 128 -> 96 FLOPS 265.5 -> 199.1 Gigaflops
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