Huawei has certainly made great strides lately in smartphone manufacturing and especially Western visibilityafter a lengthy period of regional dominance, but if the Chinese OEM truly wants to challenge industry leader Samsung, it needs to at least devise a backup plan for when key component suppliers like Qualcomm mess up.
Ideally, Huawei would cut its reliance on the Snapdragon architects entirely, though the homebrewed Kirin chipset line isn’t there yet. But the newest family member, the oft-rumored Kirin 950, seems a very meaningful heavyweight contender on paper, matching or exceeding the raw power of the SD810, Samsung’s Exynos 7420, and possibly even the upcoming Snapdragon 820.
First things first, let us review the official specifications. Built on a 16nm FinFET node, and thus technically more energy-efficient than the 20nm Snapdragon 810 and MediaTek’s Helio X20, but less so than the 14nm Exynos 7420, the Huawei Kirin 950 boasts two four-core CPU clusters arranged in a now standard big.LITTLE package.
You have your speedy ARM Cortex A72 nuclei clocked at up to 2.53 GHz, and a quartet of frugal 1.8 GHz A53s. The accompanying GPU is a spanking new Mali T880 which promises twice the graphics performance of the old T624, while the CPU reportedly provides 40 percent more muscle than the Kirin 930, and 60 percent less power consumption.
We should of course wait for thermal readings of the looming 6-inch Mate 8 to see if the claims check out in real-life conditions, whereas preliminary AnTuTu and Geekbench results suggest the massive speed bumps could indeed be legit.
In the former, a mysterious pre-release prototype device with the Kirin 950 inside scores over 82,000 points, well ahead of the Exynos 7420 and narrowly behind an unverified Snapdragon 820 test. Meanwhile, the latter yields a mind-blowing 6,200+ multi-core score, or more than 1,200 points north of 7420’s best result. Don’t forget about the Exynos 8890, though.
Sources: Android Central, Slashgear, Primate Labs
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