HiSilicon Kirin 960S Benchmark, Test and specs
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The HiSilicon Kirin 960S has 8 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 5. gen of the HiSilicon Kirin series. The processor was released in Q4/2016.
| Name: | HiSilicon Kirin 960S |
|---|---|
| Family: | HiSilicon Kirin (29) |
| CPU group: | HiSilicon Kirin 960 (2) |
| Architecture: | Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 5 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | -- |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The HiSilicon Kirin 960S has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 960S is 2.11 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 8 / 8 |
|---|---|
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 4x Cortex-A73 |
| B-Core: | 4x Cortex-A53 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
|---|---|
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 2.11 GHz |
| B-Core Frequency: | 1.84 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The HiSilicon Kirin 960S has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the HiSilicon Kirin 960S uses the ARM Mali-G71 MP8, which has 256 texture shaders and 8 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | ARM Mali-G71 MP8 |
|---|---|
| GPU frequency: | 0.90 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | No turbo |
| Compute units: | 8 |
| Shader: | 256 |
| Hardware Raytracing: | No |
| Release date: | Q2/2016 |
| Max. displays: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Generation: | Bifrost 1 |
| Direct X: | 11 |
| Technology: | 16 nm |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 2 GB |
| Frame Generation: | No |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
|---|---|
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode / Encode |
| VP9: | No |
| AV1: | No |
|---|---|
| AVC: | Decode / Encode |
| VC-1: | No |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 6 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 12.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | Memory bandwidth: |
|---|---|
| LPDDR4-1600 | 12.8 GB/s |
| Max. Memory: | 6 GB |
| Memory channels: | 2 (Dual Channel) |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | |
| PCIe Bandwidth: | -- |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 5 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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|---|---|
| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 5 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | -- |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
The HiSilicon Kirin 960S is made in 16 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 4.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 16 nm |
|---|---|
| Chip design: | Chiplet |
| Socket: | -- |
| L2-Cache: | -- |
| L3-Cache: | 4.00 MB |
| AES-NI: | No |
| Operating systems: | Android |
| Virtualization: | None |
|---|---|
| Instruction set (ISA): | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | -- |
| Release date: | Q4/2016 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | -- |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
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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.
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