HiSilicon Kirin 960s

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.

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Physics 1280x720 offscreen

14698 Points (17%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			14698

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q -80%

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Apple A10 Fusion -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 -3%

Mediatek Helio P25 -3%

Samsung Exynos 9610 -2%

Mediatek Helio A22 MT6762M -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC -1%

Intel Atom Z3735G -1%

Mediatek Helio A22 MT6761 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Mediatek MT8176 0%

Mediatek Helio P20 (LP4) MT6757 0%

Intel Atom Z3735F 1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960 2%

Mediatek MT8173 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 5%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 5%

Rockchip RK3288 5%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 6%

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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 466%

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3DMark - Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics 2560x1440

2323 Points (29%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			2323

Apple A11 Bionic -10%

HiSilicon Kirin 960 -8%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -7%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 -6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 -6%

Samsung Exynos 9611 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 -3%

Samsung Exynos 9610 -2%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

HiSilicon Kirin 710 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 2%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 5%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 6%

Mediatek Helio P60 8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 14%

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Intel Core i9-9980HK 243%

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3DMark - Sling Shot OpenGL ES 3.0 Unlimited Physics 2560x1440

2101 Points (41%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			2101

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa -15%

Samsung Exynos 7880 -14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 MSM8996 Pro -9%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 MSM8976 -9%

Samsung Exynos 7885 -8%

Nvidia Tegra K1 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 -7%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

HiSilicon Kirin 960 2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 6%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 6%

Samsung Exynos 9610 7%

Samsung Exynos 9611 10%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 10%

HiSilicon Kirin 710 12%

Apple A10X Fusion 13%

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 144%

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream

2165 Points (17%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			2165

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -97%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 -11%

Intel Celeron N2805 -10%

Samsung Exynos 9820 -8%

Intel Celeron N2910 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 -7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 -7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 -5%

Intel Core 2 Duo (Desktop) E6600 -2%

Intel Atom Z3736F -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

AMD A6 Pro-7050B 1%

Intel Celeron N2815 1%

AMD E1-2500 1%

Intel Celeron N2810 1%

Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2%

AMD A6-5200 2%

HiSilicon Kirin 980 3%

Intel Atom Z3735F 4%

Intel Celeron N2807 4%

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Intel Core i7-7740X 473%

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory

3780 Points (34%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			3780

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -92%

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Intel Celeron 2957U -6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ / 855 Plus -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AB -5%

Intel Celeron 2955U -4%

AMD A4-5150M -4%

Intel Pentium 3558U -4%

Intel Pentium 3825U -4%

Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa -1%

Intel Pentium B980 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Core i3-3217U 0%

Nvidia Tegra 4 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 970 2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB 2%

Intel Pentium 3556U 3%

Nvidia Tegra K1 4%

AMD A4-5300 4%

Intel Pentium 2127U 5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G 5%

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Intel Core i7-7740X 192%

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point

10498 Points (21%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			10498

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -100%

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AMD Ryzen 3 3200U -10%

Intel Core i5-5250U -9%

HiSilicon Kirin 710 -7%

Intel Core i5-3550 -6%

Intel Core i5-3570K -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 -3%

Samsung Exynos 9810 -2%

Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 -1%

Samsung Exynos 9609 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Mediatek Helio P60 0%

Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa 0%

Intel Core i5-3470 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 2%

Mediatek MT8183 2%

Intel Core i7-3632QM 4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 4%

Mediatek Helio P70 7%

Intel Core i7-8565U 7%

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Intel Core i9-10980XE 386%

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer

5303 Points (11%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5303

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -98%

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Intel Pentium Gold 4417U -4%

Intel Core i5-4210U -4%

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U -3%

Intel Core i3-6100U -3%

Intel Core i5-3427U -2%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 -1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Core i5-3437U 0%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 1%

Mediatek MT8183 1%

Intel Core i5-5200U 2%

Mediatek Helio P70 2%

AMD Phenom II X4 905e 3%

Intel Core m5-6Y54 3%

AMD A10-5750M 3%

Intel Core M-5Y70 3%

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Intel Core i9-10980XE 837%

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score

6502 Points (17%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			6502

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -98%

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Intel Core i5-4200M -4%

Intel Core i5-4200H -3%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa -3%

Intel Core i7-5500U -3%

Mediatek Helio P70 -3%

Intel Core i7-4500U -2%

Mediatek Helio P60 -2%

Intel Core i7-5600U -1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

AMD A8-5600K 0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 1%

Intel Core i7-4550U 1%

Intel Core i3-7130U 1%

Intel Core i5-4210H 1%

Intel Core i7-4600U 2%

Intel Core i5-4310M 2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 3%

Intel Core i5-5250U 4%

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Intel Core i9-10980XE 488%

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Geekbench 3 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score

5734 Points (9%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5734

Intel Core m3-7Y30 -4%

Intel Core m5-6Y54 -3%

AMD PRO A12-9800B -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 -2%

Intel Core m5-6Y57 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 -1%

Mediatek Helio P70 -1%

AMD A10-9600P -1%

AMD FX-7600P 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Pentium G4500T 0%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 1%

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 1%

AMD A12-9700P 2%

Mediatek Helio P60 3%

Intel Core i7-5500U 3%

Samsung Exynos 9810 3%

Intel Core m3-8100Y 4%

Intel Core i5-6200U 4%

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Intel Core i9-10980XE 1014%

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Geekbench 3 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score

1756 Points (36%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			1756

Intel Pentium N4200 -15%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 MSM8956 -14%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -14%

AMD E2-9010 -14%

HiSilicon Kirin 710 -14%

AMD E2-9000 -13%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa -12%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 -3%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 -2%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

AMD A10-4600M 0%

Intel Celeron N4100 0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 1%

Apple A8X 3%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 5%

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 5%

Nvidia Tegra K1 (Denver) 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 8%

AMD A6-9220 9%

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Intel Core i7-8700K 180%

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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score

1706 Points (27%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			1706

Intel Pentium N4200 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 -7%

Mediatek MT8176 -7%

Mediatek Helio X20 MT6797 -7%

HiSilicon Kirin 710 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 -5%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 MSM8996 Pro -2%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

HiSilicon Kirin 950 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) 2%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 3%

Intel Celeron N4100 7%

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa 9%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 9%

AMD A6-9220 10%

AMD Pro A8-8600B 11%

Intel Pentium 3558U 11%

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Intel Core i9-9900KS 270%

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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score

5609 Points (16%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5609

Intel Core i3-6100U -5%

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa -4%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 -4%

HiSilicon Kirin 710 -3%

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U -3%

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) -2%

Apple A10 Fusion 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Core i3-7100U 0%

AMD Athlon 300U 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 3%

HiSilicon Kirin 960 4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 4%

Intel Core i5-7Y54 9%

Intel Core m5-6Y54 10%

AMD A10-7850K 12%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 13%

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Intel Core i9-9900KS 541%

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Geekbench 4.4 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score

1634 Points (26%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			1634

Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 APQ8009 -74%

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Mediatek MT8176 -3%

AMD E2-9000 -3%

Apple A8 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 -2%

Mediatek Helio X20 MT6797 -2%

Samsung Exynos 9609 -2%

AMD E2-9010 -1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 0%

MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 1%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 3%

Samsung Exynos 9610 5%

Nvidia Tegra K1 (Denver) 6%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 7%

Intel Celeron N4100 9%

Mediatek Helio X25 MTK6797T 10%

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 11%

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Intel Core i9-9900KS 286%

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Geekbench 4.4 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score

5809 Points (10%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5809

AMD E1-2100 -82%

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HiSilicon Kirin 710 -6%

Apple A10 Fusion -6%

Intel Celeron N4120 -6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 -5%

Samsung Exynos 9610 -4%

Intel Pentium Gold 4415U -3%

Mediatek Helio P60 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 -2%

Intel Core i5-5250U -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Pentium Silver N5000 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 1%

Intel Core i3-7100U 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 3%

AMD Athlon 300U 4%

Intel Core i5-6200U 5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 7%

HiSilicon Kirin 960 10%

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Intel Core i9-9980XE 849%

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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score *

5947 ms (10%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB		Chrome 65	5947

Apple A13 Bionic -90%

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Intel Atom x5-Z8300 -7%

Mediatek MT8135 -4%

Intel Atom Z3740 -3%

Samsung Exynos 7884B -3%

Apple A7 -3%

Rockchip RK3288 -2%

AMD A6 Pro-7050B -2%

Intel Pentium N3540 -2%

Intel Atom x5-Z8350 -1%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 APQ8084 1%

Nvidia Tegra 4 8%

Intel Pentium N3530 8%

Intel Atom Z3560 8%

Samsung Exynos 7880 8%

Mediatek Helio X25 MTK6797T 9%

Samsung Exynos 5433 Octa 9%

AMD A6-6310 10%

Intel Atom Z3460 17%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A 900%

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Octane V2 - Total Score

6802 Points (13%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB		Chrome 65	6802

HiSilicon Kirin 920 -6%

Intel Atom x5-Z8300 -6%

Intel Atom x5-Z8350 -6%

HiSilicon Kirin 925 -5%

AMD A10-5745M -2%

Intel Celeron N2840 -2%

Intel Celeron N3050 -1%

Intel Celeron N2830 -1%

Rockchip RK3288 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Nvidia Tegra K1 0%

MediaTek Helio X27 MT6797X 2%

Samsung Exynos 5433 Octa 3%

Samsung Exynos 7884B 5%

Intel Atom Z3580 9%

Apple A8 9%

AMD A8-7100 9%

Intel Core i3-4010U 9%

Mediatek Helio X20 MT6797 9%

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Apple A13 Bionic 622%

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AnTuTu v6 - Total Score

147305 Points (50%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			147305

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 -15%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 -12%

Apple A9 -12%

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa -12%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 -12%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 -7%

HiSilicon Kirin 960 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 MSM8996 Pro 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Apple A10 Fusion 5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 12%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 16%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) 18%

Apple A9X 20%

HiSilicon Kirin 970 21%

Intel Core i5-7Y57 23%

Apple A11 Bionic 40%

Samsung Exynos 9810 48%

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Samsung Exynos 9825 99%

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PCMark for Android - Work 2.0 performance score

5114 Points (41%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5114

HiSilicon Kirin 659 -6%

Mediatek Helio P23 MT6763T -6%

Mediatek Helio A22 MT6761 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 -5%

Mediatek Helio P23 MT6763V -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 -4%

Mediatek MT8176 -4%

Mediatek Helio A22 MT6762M -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 -3%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Mediatek MT8183 0%

Mediatek Helio P35 MT6765 1%

HiSilicon Kirin 950 2%

Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 2%

HiSilicon Kirin 955 2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 3%

Samsung Exynos 7884B 3%

Samsung Exynos 7885 4%

Samsung Exynos 7904 5%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 141%

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PCMark for Android - Work performance score

5040 Points (26%)

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Model	GPU	Memory	Core / Memory	GPU Memory	Value
Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8	Mali-G71 MP8	4096 MB			5040

Intel Core i7-7500U -95%

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Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa -6%

HiSilicon Kirin 935 -6%

Samsung Exynos 8890 Octa -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 -3%

Mediatek MT8173 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 MSM8992 -2%

Mediatek Helio P20 (LP4) MT6757 -1%

Mediatek Helio P25 0%

Samsung Exynos 7880 0%

HiSilicon Kirin 960s

Intel Atom x5-Z8300 0%

Intel Atom Z3560 1%

Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 3%

Intel Atom x5-Z8500 3%

HiSilicon Kirin 650 4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 MSM8956 5%

Intel Atom Z3735F 5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 MSM8976 5%

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Intel Core i5-8350U 289%

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

Reviews for the Kirin 960s processor

Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 (ARM Mali-G71 MP8, 10.8")
» Huawei MediaPad M5 (10.8-inches, LTE) Tablet Review - Review
» Huawei MediaPad M5 10.8 - External Review

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