HiSilicon Kirin 955

The HiSilicon Kirin 955 operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

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

Turbo: 2.50 GHz base 2.50 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
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 Q2/2016.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 955

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):

2.50 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR3
LPDDR4

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR3
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:

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.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 333 (18%)

HiSilicon Kirin 950 331 (18%)

Samsung Exynos 8890 331 (18%)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 330 (17%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 330 (17%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 non LTE 330 (17%)

Samsung Exynos 9610 329 (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.

AMD A10-7400P 998 (3%)

Intel Core M-5Y10 998 (3%)

Intel Celeron G1840T 995 (3%)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 989 (3%)

Samsung Exynos 7904 987 (3%)

Intel Pentium G2030 986 (3%)

AMD Phenom II X3 720 985 (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 950 122 (1%)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 122 (1%)

Intel Core i5-2500T 120 (1%)

Apple A7 115 (1%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 115 (1%)