HiSilicon Kirin 960
The HiSilicon Kirin 960 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 9 in November 2016. Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G71 MP8 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE Cat. 12/13 modem. It is one of the fastest ARM SoCs in the end of 2016. The Kirin 960 is manufactured in a modern 16-nm process at TSMC.
Series Codename Cortex-A73/-A53 Series: Cortex-A73/-A53 Clock Rate 2400 MHz Number of Cores / Threads 8 / 8 Manufacturing Technology 16 nm Features ARM Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x 32 Bit LPDDR4 Memory Controller GPU ARM Mali-G71 MP8 ( - 900 MHz)64 Bit 64 Bit support Architecture ARM Announcement Date 11/03/2016
Benchmarks 3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 14456 avg: 15019 median: 15116.5 (16%) max: 15341 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1817 avg: 2147 median: 2018 (25%) max: 2552 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1960 avg: 2151 median: 2110 (37%) max: 2296 Points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1935 avg: 1941 median: 1941 (30%) max: 1947 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5629 avg: 5833 median: 5832.5 (14%) max: 6036 points
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1852 avg: 1875 median: 1869 (25%) max: 1899 points
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Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 6173 avg: 6384 median: 6445 (10%) max: 6527 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 2733.7 avg: 3226 median: 3149 (5%) max: 3734 ms
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 10016 avg: 10823 median: 10236 (16%) max: 11897 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 2743 avg: 3060 median: 3059.5 (82%) max: 3376 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 4471 avg: 4481 median: 4481 (100%) max: 4491 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 7346 avg: 7456 median: 7455.5 (98%) max: 7565 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 124087 avg: 143408 median: 146044 (50%) max: 157445 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 10520 avg: 11264 median: 11146.5 (34%) max: 12244 Points
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min: 40636 avg: 41957 median: 42032.5 (52%) max: 43125 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 59256 avg: 62050 median: 61700 (19%) max: 65542 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 57275 avg: 59357 median: 58913.5 (36%) max: 62327 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 170015 avg: 174560 median: 173306 (31%) max: 181614 Points
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile CPU Tests
min: 256749 avg: 264076 median: 264076 (35%) max: 271402 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
677 min (13%)
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 6006 avg: 6136 median: 6134 (40%) max: 6299 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 6830 avg: 7199 median: 7341 (37%) max: 7403 Points
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Reviews for the Kirin 960 processor
Honor 8 Pro (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.70")
» Honor 8 Pro Smartphone Review - Review » Honor 8 Pro - External Review
Honor 9 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.15")
» Honor 9 Smartphone Review - Review » Honor 9 - External Review
Honor 9 Premium Midnight Black (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.15")
» Honor 9 Premium Midnight Black - External Review
Honor V9 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.70")
» Honor V9 - External Review
Huawei Mate 9 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.90")
» Huawei Mate 9 Phablet Review - Review » Huawei Mate 9 - External Review
Huawei Mate 9 Porsche (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.50")
» Huawei Mate 9 Porsche - External Review
Huawei Mate 9 Pro (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.50")
» Huawei Mate 9 Pro - External Review
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 10.80")
» Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro Tablet Review - Review » Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 Pro - External Review
Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 8.40")
» Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4 Tablet Review - Review » Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4 - External Review
Huawei Nova 2s (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 6.00")
» Huawei Nova 2s - External Review
Huawei P10 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.10")
» Huawei P10 Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei P10 - External Review
Huawei P10 Plus (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 5.50")
» Huawei P10 Plus Smartphone Review - Review » Huawei P10 Plus - External Review
Other CPUs of the series » Intel Celeron 220 1x 1.2 GHz
» 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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