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HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 658

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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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.

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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The HiSilicon Kirin 970 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablet, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 10 in late 2017. Besides 8 CPU cores (4x Cortex-A73, 4x Cortex-A53), the SoC is also equipped with a modern Mali-G72 MP12 graphics adapter, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller as well as an LTE (4x4 MIMO, 5-band-carrier-aggregation, QAM-256, up to 1.2 Gbit/s) modem.

The performance cluster is clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and the four A53 power saving cores with up to 1.8 GHz. The performance should improve by about 20 percent according to Huawei and the power consumption reduced by 20 percent.

On the chip HiSilicon also included a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for running machine learning tasks very efficiently compared to the CPU cores.

HiSilicon Kirin 658

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The HiSilicon Kirin 658 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced early 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 2.35 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).

Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at 900 MHz with 40.8 GFLOPS), 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.

ModelHiSilicon Kirin 659HiSilicon Kirin 970HiSilicon Kirin 658
Series
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A73/-A53Cortex-A53
Series: Cortex-A53
JLQ JR5101.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9352.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 659 « 2.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6582.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6552.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6502 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9302 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6201.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT81611.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA19081.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 970 « 2.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9602.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 960s2.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 7102.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 710A2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A73/-A53
JLQ JR5101.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9352.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6592.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 658 « 2.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6552.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6502 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9302 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6201.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT81611.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA19081.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock2360 MHz2400 MHz2350 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 88 / 8
Technology16 nm10 nm16 nm
FeaturesARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory ControllerARM Mali-G71 MP12 GPU, 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x LTE Dual-SIM (4x4-MIMO, QAM-256, up to 1,2 Gbit/s)ARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory Controller
iGPUARM Mali-T830 MP2ARM Mali-G72 MP12ARM Mali-T830 MP2 (900 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Transistors5500 Million

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
12599 Points (10%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 11780     avg: 13618     median: 13379.5 (11%)     max: 14930 Points
13510 Points (11%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
min: 1632     avg: 1675     median: 1685 (20%)     max: 1717 Points
1608 Points (19%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1354     avg: 1625     median: 1685 (19%)     max: 1741 Points
1554 Points (18%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
386 Points (2%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1655     avg: 1712     median: 1711.5 (5%)     max: 1768 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 869     avg: 919     median: 926.5 (9%)     max: 946 Points
913 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3316     avg: 3608     median: 3680.5 (4%)     max: 3805 Points
3460 Points (4%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 887     avg: 888     median: 888 (12%)     max: 889 Points
min: 2009     avg: 2010     median: 2010 (27%)     max: 2011 Points
874 Points (12%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 3438     avg: 3473     median: 3473 (8%)     max: 3508 Points
min: 6512     avg: 6519     median: 6519 (16%)     max: 6526 Points
3348 Points (8%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
3508 Points (5%)
min: 6160     avg: 6205     median: 6204.5 (10%)     max: 6249 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
876 Points (13%)
min: 1926     avg: 1933     median: 1933 (29%)     max: 1940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
968 Points (8%)
min: 1993     avg: 2317     median: 2316.5 (19%)     max: 2640 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
2829 Points (26%)
min: 3758     avg: 3857     median: 3857 (35%)     max: 3956 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
5944 Points (12%)
min: 11044     avg: 11246     median: 11245.5 (22%)     max: 11447 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
3298 Points (7%)
min: 5485     avg: 5541     median: 5540.5 (11%)     max: 5596 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
3897 Points (10%)
min: 6800     avg: 6878     median: 6877.5 (18%)     max: 6955 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 8684     avg: 9440     median: 9271 (11%)     max: 10788 ms
min: 3591     avg: 4378     median: 3875.5 (5%)     max: 6221 ms
8591 ms (10%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
1173 ms (13%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 4191     avg: 4947     median: 4980 (4%)     max: 5471 Points
min: 6692     avg: 10111     median: 11085 (10%)     max: 11838 Points
4589 Points (4%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 34     avg: 38.7     median: 40 (8%)     max: 42 Points
69 Points (14%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 62810     avg: 65730     median: 66608 (23%)     max: 68232 Points
min: 173653     avg: 177915     median: 178490 (61%)     max: 181973 Points
60438 Points (21%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
min: 7947     avg: 8633     median: 8430.5 (26%)     max: 9656 Points
min: 9493     avg: 13104     median: 13673 (42%)     max: 14768 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
min: 21484     avg: 23751     median: 24193.5 (30%)     max: 24268 Points
min: 28440     avg: 42105     median: 44676.5 (55%)     max: 45397 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
min: 12982     avg: 13331     median: 13167.5 (4%)     max: 14340 Points
min: 68813     avg: 75722     median: 76492.5 (24%)     max: 81761 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
min: 39451     avg: 41305     median: 41643.5 (25%)     max: 41874 Points
min: 46027     avg: 66879     median: 70808.5 (43%)     max: 72307 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
min: 81992     avg: 87019     median: 87511.5 (15%)     max: 89639 Points
min: 152773     avg: 197811     median: 206548 (36%)     max: 212278 Points
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
1694 Iter./s (52%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
20418 Iter./s (67%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 122441     avg: 127602     median: 127602 (17%)     max: 132762 Points
202050 Points (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
min: 2413     avg: 2626     median: 2635 (14%)     max: 2819 Points
min: 4617     avg: 4787     median: 4730 (25%)     max: 5015 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
min: 5970     avg: 7032     median: 6957 (15%)     max: 8244 Points
min: 14120     avg: 14492     median: 14670 (31%)     max: 14687 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
min: 4615     avg: 4805     median: 4834.5 (32%)     max: 4911 Points
4464 Points (29%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 5704     avg: 5956     median: 5887 (29%)     max: 6252 Points
5794 Points (29%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
596 min (11%)

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 659 → 100% n=12

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 970 → 182% n=12

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 658 → 96% n=12

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