HiSilicon Kirin 950

The HiSilicon Kirin 950 operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

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

Turbo: 2.30 GHz base 2.30 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 LPDDR4 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 16 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q4/2015.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 950

Family:

HiSilicon Kirin

CPU group:

HiSilicon Kirin 950

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.80 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.30 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR4

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR4

GPU name:

ARM Mali-T880 MP4

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:

Q2/2016

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

Release date:

Q4/2015

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.

AMD FX-7500 336 (18%)

Intel Celeron 1005M 336 (18%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 333 (18%)

HiSilicon Kirin 950 331 (18%)

Samsung Exynos 8890 331 (18%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 330 (17%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE 330 (17%)

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.

Intel Core i5-2520M 1196 (3%)

Intel Core i5-4250U 1196 (3%)

Intel Core i7-3687U 1191 (3%)

HiSilicon Kirin 950 1183 (3%)

Intel Core i7-4650U 1183 (3%)

Samsung Exynos 9611 1177 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X4 820 1177 (3%)

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.

Intel Celeron N3350 125 (1%)

Intel Celeron N4000 125 (1%)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 122 (1%)

HiSilicon Kirin 950 122 (1%)

Intel Core i5-2500T 120 (1%)

Apple A7 115 (1%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 115 (1%)