Two Xiaomi Pinecone chipsets detailed: Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71

Peter, 22 February 2017

Xiaomi plans to unveil its in-house chipset next week (Tuesday) but we’re still fuzzy on the details. This isn’t quite official, but here’s what the rumor mill expects out of the two Pinecone chipsets, dubbed V670 and V970.

The more powerful of the two, Pinecone V970, will allegedly be built by Samsung on a very efficient 10nm process. It will feature an octa-core processor, with four Cortex-A73 cores and four A53. The GPU is a next-gen Mali-G71 MP12.

In comparison, the Pinecone V670 is much, much lighter weight. It will be manufactured on the old 28nm process and feature eight Cortex-A53 cores split in high and low-frequency clusters. The GPU will be a basic Mali-T860 MP2 (note: the “MP” notation shows the core count).

Here’s a quick comparison with similar chipsets

Chipset	Process	CPU	GPU	GPU cores
Pinecone V970	10nm	4x A73 + 4x A53	Mali-G71	12
Kirin 960	16nm	4x A73 + 4x A53	Mali-G71	8
Snapdragon 835	10nm	4x Kryo 280 + 4x A53	Adreno 540	-
Exynos 8890	14nm	4x Mongoose + 4x A53	Mali-T880	12

Chipset	Process	CPU	GPU	GPU cores
Pinecone V670	28nm	8x A53	Mali-T860	2
Kirin 650	16nm	8x A53	Mali-T830	2
Snapdragon 430	28nm	8x A53	Adreno 505	-
Exynos 7580	28nm	4x A53	Mali-T830	2
MT6738T	28nm	8x 53	Mali-T860	2