Kirin 960 SoC: Cortex-A73 and Mali G71
The Kirin 960 is the first SoC to use ARM's latest Cortex-A73 CPU core, which "delivers 30% more performance than the Cortex-A72 current devices in a mobile power envelope," according to ARM.
"The Kirin 960 is the world’s first chipset to feature an ARM Cortex-A73/A53 Octa-core CPU and Mali G71 Octa-core GPU. The CPU delivers the best multi-core performance among all smartphone SoCs, while reducing power consumption by 15 percent. The GPU boasts a 180 percent performance uplift and a 40 percent improvement in energy efficiency compared to its predecessor. The Kirin 960 also takes full advantage of the pioneering Vulkan graphics standard on Android 7.0, increasing graphics performance by up to 400 percent."
Perhaps the most impressive component of the Huawei-made SoC (HiSilicon is wholly owned by Huawei) is the inclusion of the new Mali G71 GPU, which is the first to implement ARM's new Bifrost GPU architecture. The Mali G71 MP8 found in the Kirin 960 offers 8 cores with clock speeds of up to 900 MHz.
"The Mali-G71 GPU is scalable from one to thirty two cores and delivers up to 20% better energy efficiency, 40% better performance density and 20% external memory bandwidth saving compared to Mali-T880 under similar conditions."
The Kirin 960 SoC also contains an integrated baseband which boasts capability similar to the Qualcomm X12 and Samsung Exynos 8890 baseband solutions. (The most comprehensive writeup about the new modem is found in AnandTech's post covering the Kirin 960.)
Image credit: AnandTech
Rather than a liscensed solution, the Kirin 960's LTE modem is a custom Huawei design, with Cat 12/13 connectivity producing up to theoretical 600 Mbps speeds via 4x carrier aggregation (where available, of course).
Next we will look at CPU and GPU performance using standard cross-platform benchmarks.
It’s a sad day (and it has
It’s a sad day (and it has been for awhile) when the only company vaguely trying to innovate in the android market is Blackberry. Everyone else is content with copying Apple, but with a gimmick or two added on.
It would be nice if someone tried to make a phone with a decent interface instead of just throwing more cores, more pixels, and more cameras at it.
The Mate 9 is also one of the
The Mate 9 is also one of the first smartphones that support the Galileo satellite systems. Which in theory can do 1m for public accuracy. Do you know if the accuracy is any better then the usual 3m or 5m of the american GPS satellites?
Weird WiFi battery results,
Weird WiFi battery results, the anandtech review is complete opposite with mate 9 dominating mate 8 in all battery tests.
Still thanks for the info on the sound I didn’t notice it and I have both phones.
Battery results were
Battery results were surprising to me as well, considering both phones have the same 4000 mAh capacity, and same screen res. I measured both displays at 180 lux with my light meter before each test, and the phones were in exactly the same spot (I did the tests one at a time) so they should have had the same signal strength. However, it is possible there was some sort of issue at play, so I can revisit the tests, and help eliminate wi-fi concern by positioning them closer to the base station.
I was told my phone huawei
I was told my phone huawei was a great phone by three and i have to say its brilliant i love the camera and the storage and its sinple to use the extra apps are top . i wont be changing to any other make again . brilliant keep it up . juliette a sheeri
webrtc is not supported by
webrtc is not supported by huawei mate 9. If you want to use video conferences in browser, you must buy Samsung, Google Pixel s.o.
I think the highlight of Mate
I think the highlight of Mate 9 is Leica camera and battery, my mate 9 can be last 12 hours, the ROM is test score is only 580, from this teardown guide https://www.laptopmain.com/huawei-mate-9-teardown/, the RAM should be UFS2.0.
Huawei Mate 9 is a good
Huawei Mate 9 is a good Smartphone which I know from this article. Octa Core processor, RAM and memory size is very good for this Smartphone making it as Flagship. I like this and hopefully, purchase it soon.