Kirin 9100 specs revealed: 6 nm chip tipped to launch with a Cortex-X1 prime core

Rumours about Huawei's new SoC have been picking up steam ahead of the Mate 70 series' launch. While some have been pure fluff made up by Chinese netizens, others paint a more accurate picture. A Telegram user who goes by @spektykles has now revealed what look like the Kirin 9100's official specifications.

The chip is codenamed HiSilicon Baltimore and it comes with an 8-core CPU with 1x Cortex-X1 (2.67 GHz), 3x Cortex-A78 (2.32 GHz) and 4x Cortex-A55 (2.02 GHz). It is restricted to Arm v8 (and older CPU cores) due to ongoing sanctions. For the GPU, it uses a Maleoon 910, presumably the same one found on last-year's Kirin 9010.

Performance-wise, the Kirin 9100 will trade blows with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in CPU and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in GPU. It will be manufactured on SMIC's N+3 node (6 nm) and not 5 nm as previously rumoured. This will result in a bump in power-efficiency (between Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Gen 2). It is a bit too early to estimate its benchmark numbers, but a leak from earlier this year said it scores around 1.1 million points in AnTuTu.