The official presentation of Huawei’s new SoC took place in Beijing. The Kirin 950, announced power monster is now reality. Let’s take stock of the SoC supposed to animate the future Huawei Mate 8.
As rumours suggested, the manufacturer has now lifted the veil on its new chip. Starting with the exhibition of some interesting data, notably that he had sold nearly 15 million smartphones operating under Kirin in Asia and Europe, the speaker was able to attract attention, the opportunity to affirm that the SoC Kirin equipping in particular the Ascend Mate 7 of which here our test, P8 and others have the best download speeds and are especially in view of 4G connections.
The Kirin 950 would thus follow the logical evolution of its predecessors by being the first SoC certified with the VoLTE network (Voice over LTE) by China Mobile Communication Corporation. The chip engraved by TSMC in 16 nm by the FF process would allow a 40% increase in performance and a 60% reduction in energy consumption.
As a reminder, the Kirin 950 is a processor where superlatives can run out so much it seems to outperform all the others, starting with the Samsung Exynos 7420 yet one of the most powerful if not the most powerful on the market. The last Kirin has a multi-core score of 6096 points where Exynos scored 4970 points at GeekBench.
With four Cortex A-72 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz representing an 11% increase in power over the A-57s and four Cortex A-53s running at 1.8 GHz, the chip shows that it is not there to rest. For the first time on the market, the Mali T-880 graphics processor improves the graphics performance of a Kirin 930 by 100%.
Will these improvements be spotted with the naked eye? According to the manufacturer, yes. The acceleration of the processing of operations will be visible especially during the launch of applications or during animations involving for example the lowering of the shutter of fast settings. The opening time of an application would increase from 686 ms to 466 ms. On the autonomy side, they announce that they can save about ten hours of use.
The Kirin 950 will make better photos and video,a point on which the brand’s smartphones did not shine particularly before. There, with a faster launch, a more efficient autofocus, it will also be able to make sharper adjustments such as noise reduction, panorama production,… will allow sharper shots in the dark and 4K captures with its H.265 codec.
With a score of some 82,945 points on the AnTuTu benchmark, the Kirin 950 looks like it’s shaped for a titanic clash between Samsung’s future Exynos 8890 processor and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 scheduled for November 10. Although this data may vary depending on the smartphones they equip, the Kirin 950 still seems to be starting with a head start.
4G
Fast start
Improved camera
16 nm FF
Photo sensor
Mali T-880
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