The HiSilicon Kirin 650 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced early 2016 and features eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Four cores can be clocked with up to 1.7 GHz (power saving cores) and four with up to 2 GHz (performance cores). Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at 600 MHz with 40.8 GFLOPS), a 64-Bit LPDDR3 memory controller and a dual-sim capable LTE Cat. 6 (max. 300 MBit/s and GSM, WCDMA, UMTS, HSPA+) radio are integrated in the SoC.
The processor performance can be compared with the older Kirin 930 and therefore sufficient for daily usage as browsing and non demanding apps. High-end SoCs with Cortex-A57 or A72 cores however should be noticeably faster.
The SoC is produced in a modern 16nm FinFET process and is therefore very power efficient.
| Codename | Cortex-A53 |
| Clock Rate | 2000 MHz |
| Number of Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 |
| Manufacturing Technology | 16 nm |
| Features | ARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory Controller |
| GPU | ARM Mali-T830 MP2 (900 MHz) |
| 64 Bit | 64 Bit support |
| Architecture | ARM |
| Announcement Date | 04/01/2016 |
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