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 |
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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
