The HiSilicon Kirin 960S is an ARM based mid-range octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablets, which was introduced with the 2018 10.5-inch Huawei MediaPad M5. Compared to the normal Kirin 960, the 960S offers an additional NPU for AI calculations from the Kirin 970. Looks like to be slower clocked than the older Kirin 960.
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.
| Codename | Cortex-A73/-A53 |
| Clock Rate | 2100 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 |
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8: ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 10.80", 0.5 kg
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