HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
The Kirin 990 5G is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. It has 8 cores and 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.
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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 | Mali 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 |
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