HiSilicon Kirin 960

The HiSilicon Kirin 960 operates with:

CPU Cores 8.

CPU Threads: 8.

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

Turbo: 2.40 GHz base 2.40 GHz all cores.

TDP: 5 W.

The processor is attached to:

CPU socket: N/A.

This version includes

4.00 MB of L3 cache on one chip

Supports 2 memory channels to support LPDDR4-1600 RAM and features PCIe Gen lanes.

Tjunction keeps below -- degrees C.

In particular, Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Architecture is enhanced with:

Technology: 16 nm

Virtualization None.

The product was released on Q4/2016.

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CPU generation and family

Name:

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Family:

HiSilicon Kirin

CPU group:

HiSilicon Kirin 960

Predecessor:

Segment:

Mobile

Generation:

Successor:

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Frequency:

1.80 GHz

Turbo (1 Core):

2.40 GHz

Turbo (64 Cores)::

Hyperthreading:

Core architecture:

hybrid (big.LITTLE)

CPU Cores:

CPU Threads:

Overclocking:

Memory & PCIe

Memory type:

LPDDR4-1600

PCIe version:

Memory channels:

PCIe version:

PCIe lanes:

Encryption

AES-NI:

Internal Graphics

Memory type:

LPDDR4-1600

GPU name:

ARM Mali-G71 MP8

GPU frequency:

0.90 GHz

GPU (Turbo):

No turbo

Generation:

DirectX Version:

Execution units:

Shader:

256

Max memory:

Max. displays:

Technology:

16 nm

Release date:

Q2/2016

Technical details

Instruction set (ISA):

ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)

Architecture:

Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53

L2-Cache:

Virtualization:

None

L3-Cache:

4.00 MB

Release date:

Q4/2016

Socket:

N/A

Thermal Management

TDP (PL1):

5 W

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-7600P 383 (20%)

Intel Celeron 3855U 383 (20%)

Intel Core i3-4010U 382 (20%)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 381 (20%)

AMD A8-5550M 381 (20%)

Intel Celeron 3215U 380 (20%)

AMD A4-4020 379 (20%)

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 i7-5600U 1502 (4%)

AMD A10-6800K 1501 (4%)

AMD Athlon 300U 1495 (4%)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 1491 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X4 970 1491 (4%)

Intel Core i5-4300M 1488 (4%)

AMD Phenom II X4 965 1486 (4%)

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 Core i5-2520M 250 (2%)

AMD A6-5400B 246 (2%)

AMD A6-5400K 246 (2%)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 245 (2%)

Intel Core i5-3610ME 243 (2%)

MediaTek Helio G90T 231 (2%)

Apple A8X 230 (2%)