Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the HiSilicon Kirin 960S on one side and the HiSilicon Kirin 960 on the other side. The first is dedicated to the tablet sector, It has 8 cores, 8 threads, a maximum frequency of 2,4GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 8 cores, 8 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2,4 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values ​​obtained in Geekbench and Cinebench.

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Specification comparison:

Processor		HiSilicon Kirin 960S				HiSilicon Kirin 960
Market (main)		Tablet				Smartphone
ISA		ARMv8-A (64-bit)				ARMv8-A (64-bit)
Microarchitecture		Cortex-A73, Cortex-A53, big.LITTLE				Cortex-A73, Cortex-A53, big.LITTLE
Family		Kirin 900				Kirin 900
Part number(s), S-Spec		Kirin 960S				Kirin 960, Hi3660
Release date		2016 Q4				2016 Q4
Lithography		16 nm FFC				16 nm FFC
Transistors		4 000 000 000				4 000 000 000
Cores		8				8
Threads		8				8
Base frequency		1,84 GHz				1,84 GHz
Turbo frequency		2,4 GHz				2,36 GHz
Energy cores		4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1,84 GHz				4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1,84 GHz
High performance cores		4x ARM Cortex-A73 @ 2,4 GHz				4x ARM Cortex-A73 @ 2,36 GHz
Cache memory		4 MB				4 MB
Max memory capacity		6 GB				6 GB
Memory types		LPDDR4-1800				LPDDR4-1800
Max # of memory channels		2				2
Max memory bandwidth		28,8 GB/s				28,8 GB/s
TDP		5 W				5 W
GPU integrated graphics		ARM Mali-G71 MP8				ARM Mali-G71 MP8
GPU execution units		8				8
GPU shading units		128				128
GPU clock		900 MHz				1037 MHz
GPU FP32 floating point		265,5 GFLOPS				282 GFLOPS
Socket		SoC				SoC
AnTuTu		166 768				170 500
(Android) PassMark CPU Mark		2 726				2 384
(Android) Geekbench 4 single core		1 578				1 846
(Android) Geekbench 4 multi-core		5 737				6 174
(Android) Geekbench 5 single core		328				328
(Android) Geekbench 5 multi-core		1 457				1 294
(SGEMM) GFLOPS performance		37,2 GFLOPS				38 GFLOPS
(Multi-core / watt performance) Performance / watt ratio		1 147 pts / W				1 235 pts / W
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We see that the two processors have an equivalent number of cores, the maximum frequency of HiSilicon Kirin 960S is greater, that their respective TDP are of the same order. Both were produced in the same year.

Performance comparison with the benchmarks:

Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench.

	AnTuTu - Total score
HiSilicon Kirin 960	170 500
HiSilicon Kirin 960S	166 768

The difference is 2%.

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AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.

	Android PassMark - CPU Mark
HiSilicon Kirin 960S	2 726
HiSilicon Kirin 960	2 384

The difference in performance is 14%.

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PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.


1 578
5 737

In single core, the difference is 17%. In multi-core, the difference in terms of gap is 8%.

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Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.


On Android:

	Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & single core score - Android
HiSilicon Kirin 960S	1 457
HiSilicon Kirin 960	1 294

In a single core, there is no noticeable difference. In multi-core, the differential gap is 13%.

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Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.

Equivalence:

HiSilicon Kirin 960S Intel equivalent HiSilicon Kirin 960S AMD equivalent HiSilicon Kirin 960 Intel equivalent HiSilicon Kirin 960 AMD equivalent

Smartphones with the processor HiSilicon Kirin 960:

Honor 9 Huawei Mate 9 Huawei Mate 9 Pro Huawei Nova 2s Huawei P10 Huawei P10 Plus

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