Huawei snagged a coup when Google tapped it to manufacture one of its latest Nexus smartphones. Such opportunity is widely seen as a form of endorsement in the Android universe. In a move that could further solidify and burnish its credential as a major global tech player, Huawei followed it up with the unveiling Thursday of its very own high-end processor that clocked a massive 82,945 score on AnTutu.
The processor, dubbed as the Kirin 950, is a 64-bit octa-core processor that consists of four high-performance Cortex-A72 cores that run at 2.3 Ghz and four low-powered Cortex-A53 cores with a speed of 1.8 Ghz, Slash Gear reported. Huawei claims that this technology has better power efficiency and is touted as the first SoC that employs the 16 nm FinFET process from TSMC. To put this information in context, one could turn to the average nm process used by mobile chips these days, which is 20 nm.
Now, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, which is the highest performing processor to date, as HNGN previously reported, is said to use a 14 nm process. This area is critical in power consumption, as it allows mobile devices to consume less power without compromising performance, according to Android Central.
There are currently no existing devices running on the Kirin 950. Huawei only demonstrated it in a test rig, which was how it was able to undergo the AnTutu test. Based on the result, it trumped the performances of all existing Android devices today, which is led by Note 5, the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge+. They scored within the 70k range, according to PhoneArena. The AnTutu score is also supported by a leaked GFXBench result that show the chip performing miles ahead of SoCs available in Android today. The details of that information can be accessed here.
