This last week has been a full-blown battle between the different processor companies for mobile devices. First it was MediaTek with the Helio P15, then Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 427, 626, 653 and now it is the Chinese manufacturer Huawei who presents its new Kirin 960 processor with eight cores .
It seems that they are key dates for the manufacturers of mobile processors, since anticipating in autumn some of the novelties, they obtain that these are included in the next generation of smartphones and tablets.
It is an open secret that Huawei is preparing the imminent launch of the Huawei Mate 9 , which may become the first device of the brand to equip this new Kirin 960 processor.
The Huawei Kirin 960 processor puts at our disposal 8 cores divided into two clusters of 4 cores each. One of the clusters is an ARM Cortex-A73 for high-performance tasks and the other is an ARM Cortex-A53 cluster for tasks that require lower performance, thus optimizing energy consumption and processor efficiency.
With a 16nm manufacturing process the Huawei Kirin 960 becomes the first processor to equip the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU , which offers a remarkable performance increase over the previous generation of Mali GPU (up to 180% more, according to the manufacturer ).
They could not miss the benchmarks that both users like and that serve as a showcase to the power of each processor. During the presentation of the Kirin 960, Huawei showed several benchmarks where it is observed how its new processor beat the processors A10 of the iPhone 7 and Exynos 8890 of Samsung in multi-core tasks. In single core tasks, its performance is similar to the rest of the processors of its range, with the A10 being the undisputed leader.
This new Huawei processor looks good on paper, but we'll have to wait to see it working on some device.
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