Huawei has officially released the specs of the high-end Kirin 950 chipset; it’s has been in the news as far back as July and will eventually debut with the phablet-sized Huawei Mate 8 which is expected to go official on November 26th.
The Huawei Kirin 950 uses the big. LITTLE architecture and is a 64-bit octa-core one which packs 4 x Cortex-A72 cores clocked up to 2.53GHz for the harder tasks and for the softer tasks, 4 x Cortex-A53 cores clocked up to 1.8GHz. The company has also included the i5 co-processor along for sensing.
It is produced using TSMC’s 16nm FinFET production process; has Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, 5-mode LTE Cat.6 Modem (up to 300Mbps), VoLTE support and Dual 14bit Dual ISP 960MP/s with standalone DSP. The chipset will also bring about improvements in the quality of voice calls, music and media generally.
The Kirin 950 was spotted a few days ago on benchmark test when it edge-ahead of devices using the Exynos 7420. It scored 1710 in single-core mode and 6245 in multi-core compared to Exynos 7420 powered Samsung Galaxy S6 and other high-end galaxy which scored 1486 in the Single core test and 4970 in the multi-core test.
Source: Android Central
