HiSilicon Kirin 960

The Kirin 960 is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. It has 8 cores and was announced in 2016 October. It has "big.LITTLE" cores-set: 4x Cortex-A73 (2.4 GHz), 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz). The processor is manufactured using a 16 nm process technology and supports UFS 2.1, 4G, LPDDR4.

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

Kirin 960

253892

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 960

382

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 960

1544

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Number of cores	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A
Lithography	16 nm
Number of transistors	4000 million
TDP	5 Watt

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 6 GB
Memory type	LPDDR4
Memory frequency	1866 MHz
Memory-bus	2x32 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G71 MP8
GPU Architecture	Mali Bifrost
GPU frequency	900 MHz
Execution units	8
Shaders	128
DirectX	11.3
OpenCL API	1.2
Vulkan API	1.0

Camera, Video, Display

Max camera resolution	1x 20MP, 2x 12MP
Max Video Capture	4K@30fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes
5G network	Yes
Peak Download Speed	0.6 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	0.15 Gbps
Wi-Fi	5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth	4.2
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS