HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Kirin 990 5G is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. 8 cores (8 threads). It was announced in 2019 Quarter 4. It has "top.big.LITTLE" cores-set: 2x Cortex-A76, 2x Cortex-A76 (2.36 GHz), 4x Cortex-A55 (1.95 GHz). The processor is manufactured using a 7 nm process technology and supports UFS 3.0, 4G, 5G, LPDDR4X.
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture 2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores 8
Instruction Set ARMv8.2-A
Lithography 7 nm
Number of transistors 8000 million
TDP 7 Watt
Neural Processing Ascend Lite + Ascend Tiny, HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture, HiAI 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount up to 12 GB
Memory type LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz
Memory-bus 4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification UFS 3.0

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G76 MP16
GPU Architecture Bifrost
GPU frequency 700 MHz
Execution units 16
Shaders 256
DirectX 12
OpenCL API 2.0
Vulkan API 1.1

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution 3360x1440@60Hz
Max Video Capture 4K@60fps
Video codec support H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
VC-1
VP8
VP9

Wireless

4G network Yes
5G network Yes
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth 5.0
Satellite navigation BeiDou
GPS
Galileo
GLONASS

Supplemental Information

Launch Date 2019 Quarter 4
Vertical Segment Mobiles
Positioning Flagship

AnTuTu 10

Total Score
Kirin 990 5G
576876

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score
Kirin 990 5G
774

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score
Kirin 990 5G
3082

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