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	HiSilicon Kirin 935 2.2 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 » HiSilicon Kirin 659 2.36 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 658 2.35 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 655 2.1 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 650 2 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 930 2 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 HiSilicon Kirin 620 1.2 GHz 8 / 8 Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz 1.5 GHz 4 / 4 Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz 1.3 GHz 4 / 4 Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT8161 1.3 GHz 4 / 4 Cortex-A53 Marvell Armada PXA1908 1.2 GHz 4 / 4 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

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