HiSilicon’s Kirin 970 reported to have begun mass production

14 August 2017
Huawei’s CPU arm has been quietly working on the Kirin 970, set to debut on the Huawei Mate 10.

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  • dQA
  • 21 Mar 2018

I have mate10 for two weeks it have perfect cpu but in gpu when i play heavy game (like wot blitz) it heats up after 10 or 15 minutes and frames drops under 30

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    • uguysrtehnoobz
    • s7B
    • 16 Aug 2017

    It's kind of funny to read people's comments about the Kirin 970 having a weak GPU when the exynos and SD always end up throttling pitifully because it heats up too much. Kirins, in real world tests have proven to be much more stable and smoother in long-term gaming on phones because their GPU doesn't throttle as much compared to their competition. So you guys can go ahead and compare spreadsheets of theoretical performances that only cater to 5 minute benchmarks while the rest of us enjoy stable and fluid game play from chips that are looked down upon for not benching well. You guys can have your 20 cluster GPU and High-end Adreno that throttles down and only works at half-speed after 20 min anyways coz it got too hot.

      Chipset is a joke, it will never be on par with anything with their measly gpus, chipset will be outated already in couple of months time when need exynos and Snapdragon will start to come up with new gpus and cpus

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        • AnonD-668900
        • v3F
        • 16 Aug 2017

        if mate 10 price < Samsung note 8 then I will give it a shot.
        Huawei please work harder to beat Samsung....(maybe another 5-10 yrs time?)

        in terms of gpu, I guess 12cores are sufficient to play hardcore games. If u can combine CPU + GPU efficiency that can match QUALCOMM / exynos / A10 I would say its a big leap forward.

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          • NichtsGemacht
          • K3e
          • 15 Aug 2017

          It is great to see more manufactures of processors, that is great for consumers and reinforces the market competition which is good for consumers around the world now regarding the performance of this processors I've seen that they perform really good

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            • Anonymous
            • KSw
            • 15 Aug 2017

            Anonymous, 15 Aug 2017Here comes the king. Its too late to the competition in terms of gpu

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              • AnonD-510098
              • 3Ja
              • 15 Aug 2017

              Qualcomm is getting worse each year.

              Kirin and Exynos is where its at.

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                • AnonD-510098
                • 3Ja
                • 15 Aug 2017

                Anonymous, 15 Aug 2017I will feel excited only if the Kirin CPUs are unlockable f... more90% of buyers dont care about that though...

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                  • Kangal
                  • uCX
                  • 15 Aug 2017

                  I hope they use the new microarchitecture:
                  (under) 1.6GHz, Quadcore Cortex A35
                  (over) 2.4GHz, Quadcore Cortex A75
                  (over) 700MHz, Mali G72-MP12

                  A simple bump to 10nm node is nothing special. I'd rather a spec bump in the actual microarchitecture, that's where the real gains in efficiency come from!

                  edit: the formatting in this Commenting System is very buggy : (

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                    • Force Majeure
                    • m}J
                    • 15 Aug 2017

                    AnonD-646111, 15 Aug 2017What ever prossecer it may be it definitely short against A... moreHave fun customising that OS. Do people really buy tablets these days, I thought they became extinct?

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                      • 7Mq
                      • 15 Aug 2017

                      AnonD-646111, 15 Aug 2017What ever prossecer it may be it definitely short against A... moreI don't know why you get all excited about synthetic benchmarks.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • IV8
                        • 15 Aug 2017

                        AnonD-646111, 15 Aug 2017What ever prossecer it may be it definitely short against A... moreYeah good luck putting that inside your pocket

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                          • AnonD-646111
                          • 2SS
                          • 15 Aug 2017

                          What ever prossecer it may be it definitely short against Apple A10x processcer which found at i pad pro 2017
                          Its geekbench 4.1 scores
                          Single core - 3942
                          Muilt score - 9352

                          Anuntu score. 231996
                          This is pc like performance in on tablets

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                            • Anonymous
                            • PE6
                            • 15 Aug 2017

                            I will feel excited only if the Kirin CPUs are unlockable for custom rom and kernels.

                              Anonymous, 15 Aug 2017V30, Note8, Mate10 You forgot the others...Nokia 8, Note 8, iPhone 8, Mate 10, V30, Essential, XZ1, maybe more. We will see where the numbers will go. Gsmarena, after these phones announcements and going on sales, make a poll with these phones to see which draws more attention

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                                • Anonymous
                                • PA7
                                • 15 Aug 2017

                                Addition new chip for marketing purpose only, mobile will be to hot if capabilty set to match computer. Addion core on mobile CPU will left sleep most of time, so useless

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Htx
                                  • 15 Aug 2017

                                  V30, Note8, Mate10

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                                    • P@Y
                                    • 15 Aug 2017

                                    Great news for Huawei fans :D

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • d%E
                                      • 15 Aug 2017

                                      Here comes the king.