Kirin 960 chipset announced: much faster GPU, better power use

19 October 2016
Moving to an 8-core Mali-G71 represents a huge jump in performance over the Kirin 955.

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Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016If I've learnt anything about Huawei SoCs its that they ski... moreAMD/Nvidia gpu would probably kill the competition there would be no one even close to exynos

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    Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016not even close. MP8 is not enough to kill anything well, m... moreUmm... in real life performance phones with Kirin 955(P9 and P9 Plus) blow away phones with SD 820/1. So Kirin is already a Snapdragon killer. Its only unpopular because its source code isn't available for development.

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      Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016SD 820 just had mild lead against A9. However, Apple achiev... moreIndeed. But phones with 6gb Ram are coming already at 140k antutu. Given 10nm architecture, quad 2.4 core or octa 2.6 either way, with good optimizations Snapdragon 830 can come close or be better. If GPU gets at least 20% better and raw power at least 30% better, then they can come close. Depends how much bloatware will be installed, but this bloatware means profit for some. So i dont know, 30k antutu isnt much of a diffrence if you look at Sn810 having 77k antutu.

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        • 19 Oct 2016

        hmmm,very nice but let me guess the next phone with this chip just like the other new released will also cost 800 dollars up :3

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          Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016If I've learnt anything about Huawei SoCs its that they ski... moreSamsung still has the edge, because HiSilicon's G71 uses 8 pipelines and the Exynos is purported to use 12.

          Either way, the G71 is a huge upgrade compared to the old Mali GPUs, so everone wins.

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            AnonD-573368, 19 Oct 2016This is not fair, I bought the P9 plus just 2 months ago an... moreWhy didn't you wait?

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              This is not fair, I bought the P9 plus just 2 months ago and it costed me a fortune! Then this will come within less than 10 8 months and tears the kirin 955 apart ! Oh god

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                • 19 Oct 2016

                Does it support 4k display?

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                  LG superfan, 19 Oct 2016If graphics is better than exynos it will be the best android SoCIf I've learnt anything about Huawei SoCs its that they skimp out on GPU power. This'll probably be the most ambitous GPU wise from their end but I doubt it'll match what Sammy would put in a flagship Exynos SoC. Especially if the Sammy-AMD/Nvidia rumours are true.

                    Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016Yes, it's like the same manufacturer but newer version. Mal... moreIf graphics is better than exynos it will be the best android SoC

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                      AnonD-387177, 19 Oct 2016There is a interesting catch to follow. Snapdragon 820 was ... moreSD 820 just had mild lead against A9. However, Apple achieved ~150 % performance in A10 over their last generation A9 (Have to admire Apple H/W engineers here). SD 830 wont surpass A10 next year, definitely not with CPU power atleast (may expect relatively similar GPU performance though).
                      Truth be accepted, Apple has best SOC this and next year too. The dream phone for now may be iphone running Nougat!! :P

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                        Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016You shouldn't assume that your opinion really is the same w... moreoh but he didn't asume, he first stated that most ppl wouldn't agree with him/her
                        to me, he just stated his/her point of view regardless of the support, it's good, everyone has the right to type a point of view, some will agree, some will not, so ur comment seems rather harsh (borderline rage) to me, just chill and enjoy the news and comment section, not everything has to be fanboyism and bash u know? ^_^

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                          Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016not even close. MP8 is not enough to kill anything well, m... moreIt's far better than Adreno 530 and close to the next Adreno gpu of the next top Qualcomm chipset.

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                            • 19 Oct 2016

                            There is a interesting catch to follow. Snapdragon 820 was the best soc till A10 came out, but in january or february 830 will be announced and snappy should get back to first position. Overall seeing back Iphone should evolve with soc in 2018 and not before. probabaly with soc a11 or so. Till then Snap will again prevail so in sort of speaking Apple has best soc for only 6 months per 2 year. Kirin with this 960 should score around 160k, because they upped GPU which automatically gives them bit of edge. Kirin 955 with same gpu as exynose have should score 130k easily, but they didnt use good gpu. Kirin 960 will rectify thaat. Mate 9 should be good phone.

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                              Anonymous, 19 Oct 2016A10 Fusion has MP6 and is still ahead of competition. It's ... moreyes, it's about architecture
                              but exynos,MTK and kirin mostly use same MALI architecture on same generation, (unless mtk go full retard and still use older one).
                              apple use powerVR while Snapdragon use Adreno

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                                LG superfan, 19 Oct 2016Is gpu better than current top Exynos?Yeah

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                                  .alpha, 19 Oct 2016The graphics show it to be the best Android SoC, just the b... moreKirin 960. Best SoC... That's a good title imo... Apple can't be compared to Android

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                                    AnonD-594674, 19 Oct 2016If sustained performance of A73 and that new low power gpu ... moreModern Combat Versus is coming out next year, hope it has the best quality graphics

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                                      AnonD-580028, 19 Oct 2016Many will not agree with me in following: Nice step forwar... moreGames like Modern Combat need all the Frames possible

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                                        • 19 Oct 2016

                                        guys!!
                                        what about k965, will it made in 10nm ff and g71 mp12?