2021 Kirin Processor Top 10:
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First place: Kirin 9905G
1, 5G: Kirin 990 5G SoC integration, 865 is 5G plug-in.
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2, process: Kirin 990 5G 7nm EUV, ahead of 865 7nm a process era.
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3, CPU: Kirin 990 5G A76 magic change, performance has a new upgrade, well-deserved performance monster. Although the A77 performance is improved by 20% compared to the A76, the corresponding power consumption is also increased, and it will be known when the mobile phone comes out to see the measured data. Kirin 990 5G and 865 performance is comparable, but the other side is difficult to match the energy efficiency ratio.
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4, GPU: According to the latest rigorous GFXBench 5.0 assessment, Kirin 990 5G scored 19 points, 865 scored 21 points.
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5. AI computing power: According to the authoritative ETH AI-Benchmark evaluation, the Kirin 990 5G AI equipped with self-developed Da Vinci architecture NPU scores 52403,865 scores 27758, which is basically only half of the Kirin 990 5G score.
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6, WiFi: Kirin 990 5G with Huawei self-developed Hi 1103 chip can achieve a maximum peak rate of 1.7Gbps (5GHz band supports 160MHz bandwidth), 865 platform with Qualcomm's latest QCA6390 can achieve a maximum of 1.2Gbps (5GHz band only supports 80MHz bandwidth), the speed is less than 500Mbps.
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Second place: Kirin 990
1, in the AnandTech test, AnandTech people believe that the power performance of the Kirin 990 processor is very good, which is the lowest on the market.
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2, but the Kirin 990 processor's performance is only slightly better than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 processor released last year, and even worse than Apple's A11 processor released in 2017.
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3, in fact, the peak performance of the Kirin 990 processor itself is higher than the Snapdragon 855, but it is weaker than the Snapdragon 855 after heating, because the models equipped with the Snapdragon 855 processor are not at the same level, and the heat dissipation performance is different.
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4. AnandTech also pointed out that the Kirin 990 processor's power consumption performance is better than Samsung's S10 and worse than the iPhone XS.
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5, In the GPU performance test, the Kirin 990 processor is a long distance away from Apple.
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1, this Kirin 980 adopts the 7nm production process, not only the performance is significantly improved, but even it provides much higher space for the design of the mobile phone behind.
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2, let's look at the basic parameters, this Kirin 980 adopts the core program of 2, 2, 4
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3, namely: 2 very large core (based on Cortex-A76 development), 2 large core (based on Cortex-A76 development), 4 small core (Cortex-A55).
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4, in fact, the processor has a size of the core, this is to let the phone in different use scenarios, you can call different cores
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5, in order to achieve power saving and as little as possible to occupy the role of system resources.
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6, this Kirin 980 is obviously based on such considerations, but it divided the performance needs more finely, the original is severe and mild
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7, now has become severe, moderate, mild, so that you can more accurately control the performance of the phone release, in order to indirectly achieve the purpose of saving electricity and saving resources.
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8, In addition to games and photos, Kirin 980 also improves the compatibility and speed of data networks
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9. It supports LTE Cat.21, which means you'll be able to download things with 4G, or browse faster.
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4th place: Kirin 820
1, the Kirin 820 5G is based on TSMC's first-generation 7nm process (N7) manufacturing, consistent with the Kirin 810.
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2, its CPU part is composed of 1 A76 large core (2.36Ghz), 3 A76 medium core (2.22Ghz) and 4 A55 small core (1.84Ghz). The official performance is 27% higher than the Kirin 810, which should mainly refer to the multi-core performance.
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3, because it is the first generation process, the frequency is not pulled very high, so the single core performance and Snapdragon 765G is almost the same, which is worse than MTK's Tianguet 1000, and the processor core is a generation different.
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4, the GPU part is the Mali G57MP6, the official performance is 38% higher than the Kirin 810. This performance should be improved, 6MP is two more than the purple light tiger, the performance is improved than 810, can exceed the Snapdragon 765G, but the G77 of Tianguet 1000 can not be compared.
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5, Kirin 820 5G baseband Kirin 990 5G same. Its ISP and NPU are also directly from Kirin 990 5G. ISP is upgraded to ISP 5.0, which supports BM3D image noise reduction, exactly the same as Kirin 990 5G. NPU is reduced from two large nuclei to one.
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5th place: Kirin 810
1, Kirin 810 chip, 7nm process technology, CPU uses two A76 large core (2.27GHz) and six A55 small core (1.88GHz); The GPU is powered by the ARM Mali-G52 model graphics processor.
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2, Kirin 810 adopts Huawei's self-developed Da Vinci architecture NPU, its AI performance a ride out of the dust, according to the official AI run score, AI performance not only exceeds the Snapdragon 855, even Kirin 980 are to be left behind.
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3, AI performance is not as obvious as CPU and GPU performance, but it can really improve the use of experience, such as in scene recognition, AI shooting, picture processing, and intelligent scheduling CPU and GPU, the stronger the AI performance, the better the use experience.
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6th place: Kirin 970
1. Huawei Kirin 970's first integrated NPU uses HiAI mobile computing architecture, and its AI performance density is significantly better than that of cpus and Gpus. Compared to the four Cortex-A73 cores, the Kirin 970's new heterogeneous computing architecture offers approximately 50 times the energy efficiency and 25 times the performance advantages when handling the same AI application tasks. This means that the Kirin 970 chip can complete AI computing tasks with a higher energy efficiency ratio. For example, in the image recognition speed, it can reach about 2000 photos\/minute.
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2. Kirin 970 innovatively designs HiAI mobile computing architecture, utilizes the most energy-efficient heterogeneous computing architecture to maximize the performance of CPU\/GPU\/ISP\/DSP\/NPU, and integrates NPU dedicated hardware processing unit for the first time, whose acceleration performance and energy efficiency ratio are significantly better than CPU and GPU.
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3. A system-level mobile phone chip mainly includes CPU\/GPU\/DSP\/ISP, and many other components such as baseband chip. This Kirin 970 still has a built-in octa-core CPU, and there is no change compared with the previous generation Kirin 960. On the GPU, the Kirin 970 uses the Mali-G72 architecture just released by ARM in May 2017, and the performance is improved compared with the Mali-G71, in addition, in the core number, the Kirin 970 GPU is also increased from the 8 core of the Kirin 960 to 12 core.
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7th place: Kirin 960
1, Kirin 950 processor, using ARM big.LITTLE public version 4*A72 4*A53, the maximum frequency of the size of the core are 2.30GHz and 1.81GHz.
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2, although GeekBench 4.0 has a lot of weight for Hisilicon Kirin processors
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3, but in the latest Antutu running score, we can also see that the public A72 single-core performance of Hisilicon Kirin 950 is better than the other two Android flagship SoCs.
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4. In addition, the GPU of Hisilicon Kirin 950 is ARM Mali-T880MP4, and the main frequency is 900MHz
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5. Kirin 960 supports 2*32bit LPDDR4 (1866MHz) memory, supports ufs 2.1 flash memory specifications, and supports cat12 network transmission
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6, and Kirin 950\/955, LPDDR4 although 32-bit dual-channel, but only reached 1333MHz
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7, and because the CPU bus of Kirin 950\/955 is CCI-400, the memory bandwidth is far less than the 21.3GB\/s that LPDDR4 (1333MHz) should have.
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8, the Kirin 960 memory bandwidth upgrade to 1866MHZ dual-channel LPDDR4, combined with the A73 large core CCI-550 bus layout
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9. The memory bandwidth of Kirin 960 has been greatly improved, and the measured RAM performance of Antutu has reached 12000 minutes or more using the heterogeneous mode of A73 and A53.
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10. TSMC's 10nm process is still used.
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11, this time ARM increased the A73's first-level cache from 48kb to 64kb, and the second-level cache from the A72's maximum 2M to 8MB
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12, and equipped with independent prereaders for both primary and secondary caches, so that A73 can obtain close to the theoretical maximum bandwidth value.
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13. And, like the A72, the A73 is equipped with two AGUs capable of simultaneously loading and storing operations.
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8th place: Kirin 710
1. The Kirin 710 adopts an 8-core design, with four A73 cores and four A53 cores, and uses a Big.Little hybrid architecture, with a maximum frequency of 2.2GHz compared to the Kirin 659, which is about 70% higher.
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2. The Kirin 710 is built by TSMC's 12nm process, which is the first time that Huawei has used TSMC's 12nm process.
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3. At the same time, the Kirin 710 is equipped with a four-core Mali-G51 graphics processor, which officially claims that the performance is also greatly improved and more power-saving.
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4, the Kirin 710 processor will also support HUAWEI GPU Turbo, and support Google ARCore, HUAWEI AR dual augmented reality engine and other AR functions.
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9th place: Kirin 955
1, Kirin 955, the adoption of big.LITTLE eight-core asynchronous architecture, including four A72 high-performance large core, the main frequency of 2.5GHz, overclocking to 2.8GHz;
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2, at the same time Kirin 955 plus four A53 low-power coprocessors, the main frequency is 1.8GHz; A separate low-power i5 chip is also available.
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3, the actual experience of Kirin 955, can automatically adjust the CPU core switch and frequency according to different load application scenarios.
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4, Kirin 955 single thread run score as high as 2018, and multi-threaded results also reached 7313, and the original results of the Kirin 950 processor directly opened the gap of 1000 points.
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5. Integrated Cat.16 baseband.
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10th place: Kirin 950
1. The Kirin 950 A72 core has a frequency of 2.3GHz, which is 200MHz higher than the Exynos 7420 A57 core, that is, about 10%.
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2, Kirin 950 NEON instruction test dual-thread concurrent read and write bandwidth reached 38GB\/s, Exynos 7420 is only 23GB\/s, Snapdragon 810 is only 19GB\/s.
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3. The Kirin 950 consumes only 3.7W when running all four A72 cores, which is much lower than the Exynos 7420's nearly 5.5W, and the increase is limited compared to the 3.3W of the Kirin 925 A53 core.
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4, Kirin 950 is very excellent, A72, A53 core parts of the energy consumption ratio is very high, especially the highest point is twice the Exynos 7420, not only shows the excellent A72, but also proves the success of 16nm FinFET process.
In 2021, the ranking of Kirin chip phones is as follows:
Kirin 9905G
Kirin 980
Kirin 820 5G
The above ranking is for reference only, and the specific ranking may change due to the overall performance of the phone, user evaluation and other factors.