HiSilicon Kirin 659

The HiSilicon Kirin 659 operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

Performance-enhancing, system-enhancing technology that works faster and saves battery with:

Turbo: 2.36 GHz base 2.36 GHz all cores.

TDP: .

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

-- of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support LPDDR3-933 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 16 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q2/2016.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 659

Family:

HiSilicon Kirin

CPU group:

HiSilicon Kirin 650

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.70 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.36 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR3-933

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR3-933

GPU name:

ARM Mali-T830 MP2

GPU frequency:

0.90 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

0.90 GHz

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

16 nm

Release date:

Q4/2015

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Cortex-A53 / Cortex-A53

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

Release date:

Q2/2016

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

TDP (PL2):

TDP Up:

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.

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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.

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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.

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