HiSilicon Kirin 659
The HiSilicon Kirin 659 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced mid 2017 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 2.36 GHz (performance cores). The difference to the older Kirin 650 and Kirin 655 SoCs is the higher clock speed of the performance cores (2.35 versus 2.1 and 2.0 GHz). The slightly older Kirin 658 is very similar. The 659 is in our benchmarks around 4% faster than the 658 and offers a better LTE radio (Cat. 13).
Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at >=900 MHz), 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.
Series Codename Cortex-A53 Series: Cortex-A53 Clock Rate 2360 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 64 Bit 64 Bit support Architecture ARM Announcement Date 03/17/2017
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
12599 Points (13%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 11780 avg: 13618 median: 13379.5 (14%) max: 14930 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1632 avg: 1675 median: 1685 (21%) max: 1717 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1354 avg: 1625 median: 1685 (29%) max: 1741 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
968 Points (8%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
2829 Points (26%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
5944 Points (12%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
3298 Points (7%)
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Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop) E6600 3%
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
3897 Points (10%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
3508 points (5%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
876 points (18%)
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 887 avg: 888 median: 888 (14%) max: 889 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3438 avg: 3473 median: 3473 (8%) max: 3508 points
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 869 avg: 919 median: 926.5 (13%) max: 946 points
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3316 avg: 3608 median: 3680.5 (6%) max: 3805 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 8684.3 avg: 9440 median: 9271 (16%) max: 10788.1 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
1173 ms (13%)
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 4191 avg: 4947 median: 4980 (8%) max: 5471 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 62810 avg: 65730 median: 66608 (23%) max: 68232 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 7947 avg: 8633 median: 8430.5 (26%) max: 9656 Points
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min: 21484 avg: 23751 median: 24193.5 (30%) max: 24268 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 12982 avg: 13331 median: 13167.5 (4%) max: 14340 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 39451 avg: 41305 median: 41643.5 (25%) max: 41874 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 81992 avg: 87019 median: 87511.5 (15%) max: 89639 Points
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AndEBench - AndEBench Java
1694 Iter./s (52%)
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AndEBench - AndEBench Native
20418 Iter./s (67%)
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile CPU Tests
min: 122441 avg: 127602 median: 127602 (17%) max: 132762 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
min: 2413 avg: 2626 median: 2635 (14%) max: 2819 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
min: 5970 avg: 7032 median: 6957 (22%) max: 8244 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 4615 avg: 4805 median: 4834.5 (32%) max: 4911 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 5704 avg: 5956 median: 5887 (29%) max: 6252 Points
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Reviews for the Kirin 659 processor
Honor 7X (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.93")
» Honor 7X - External Review
Honor 9 Lite (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.65")
» Honor 9 Lite Smartphone Review - Review » Honor 9 Lite - External Review
Honor 9N (9i) (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.90")
» Honor 9i - External Review
Huawei Honor 7X (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.93")
» Honor 7X Smartphone Review - Review
Huawei Mate 10 Lite (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.90")
» Huawei Mate 10 Lite Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei Mate 10 Lite - External Review
Huawei Mate SE (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.93")
» Huawei Mate SE - External Review
Huawei MediaPad M5 lite (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 10.10")
» Huawei MediaPad M5 lite Tablet Review - Review » Huawei MediaPad M5 lite - External Review
Huawei MediaPad T5 10 (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 10.10")
» Huawei MediaPad T5 (10.1-inch, LTE) Tablet Review - Review » Huawei MediaPad T5 10 - External Review
Huawei Nova 2 (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.00")
» Huawei Nova 2 Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei Nova 2 - External Review
Huawei Nova 2i (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.90")
» Huawei Nova 2i - External Review
Huawei Nova 3e (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.84")
» Huawei Nova 3e - External Review
Huawei P smart (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.65")
» Huawei P Smart Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei P smart - External Review
Huawei P10 Selfie (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.50")
» Huawei P10 Selfie - External Review
Huawei P20 Lite (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.84")
» Huawei P20 Lite Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei P20 Lite - External Review
Huawei Y9 (ARM Mali-T830 MP2, 5.93")
» Huawei Y9 - External Review
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» Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 4x - 1.2 GHz
» Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 4x - 1.2 GHz
» Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz 1x 2.8 GHz
» HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 4x 1.2 GHz
» Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz 1x 1.2 GHz
» ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz 1x 1.2 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 1GHz 1x 1 GHz
» Texas Instruments OMAP 3622 1x 1 GHz
» Telechips TCC8803 1GHz 1x 1 GHz
» ZiiLABS ZMS-08 1x 1 GHz
» ARM Cortex A8 1GHz 1x 1 GHz
» Loongson 2F 900MHz 1x 0.9 GHz
» CSR8670 2x 0.08 GHz
» Huawei Kirin A1 1x 0.2 GHz
» Cypress PSoC6 MCU 2x 0.15 GHz
» DK3.5+ST 2x
» unknown
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