Huawei unveils octa-core Kirin 620 SoC
Huawei unveiled a new chip yesterday, namely the eight-core Kirin 620. This 64-bit processor uses eight Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.2 GHz, so one of its future competitors will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410.
Huawei Kirin 620 offers the following specs and features:
- Architecture/Speed/Cores: eight 1.2 Ghz 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 cores with Mali-450 MP4 graphics
- Memory: LPDDR3 RAM support
- Display: video decoding up to 1080p@30 fps, encoding 1080p@30fps
- Camera support: up to 13 MP, with HDR
- Connectivity: Cat4 LTE, HSPA+, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS
The Kirin 620 should provide about the same amount of processing power as the Qualcomm Dragon 410 which is already on the market. They both use the same Cortex-A53 core running at the same frequency although Huawei's chip has four extra cores. On the other hand, Qualcomm's SoC features Adreno 306 graphics, a better choice than the Mali-450 MP4.
There are no benchmark results available yet and Huawei did not mention anything about the first devices that will use the new octa-core Kirin 620 SoC.
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