Hardware Overview & System Functioning

The Huawei Mate 9 features a HiSilicon Kirin 960 SoC, which is an upgrade on the Kirin 955 we saw in the Huawei P9. Many aspects of the Kirin 960's design are the same equally in the Kirin 955, much as the octa-nucleus extended.Piddling CPU designing and the use of a 16nm manufacturing treat. We are, however, seeing upgrades to both the CPU cores and the GPU to improve performance.

Connected the CPU side, we'atomic number 75 looking at a quadrangle-core ARM Pallium-A73 cluster for high performance tasks, and a quad-core Cerebral cortex-A53 constellate for energy efficiency. The A73 cores are new to the Kirin 960, replacement the A72 cores, and are clocked slightly lower at 2.36 GHz rather than 2.5 GHz. However, the improvements to the core design of the A73 leads to higher IPC, and therefore the A73 cores outperform the A72s despite the lower time speed. The A53 cores are clocked at up to 1.84 Gigacycle per second.

The GPU used here is an ARM Mali-G71 MP8 clocked up to 1037 MHz. This is a massive upgrade over the Mali-T880 MP4 used in the Kirin 955, and should (theoretically) provide around 2.3x the performance.

Specific to the Mate 9 is 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. There's Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC and LTE Class 12 with 3xCA. In that location are two Mate 9 models in the unsafe, so make a point you buy one that supports your local networks, although each model supports more than 15 LTE bands and both should personify suitable for use in EEC, Asia and North America for the most part.

Performance from the Mate 9 is first-class in general, with fast-breaking app loading and outstanding in-app performance. It's clear that the Kirin 960 is a top-end SoC that provides a speeding CPU and GPU to apps that need it.

Relative to the last-generation Kirin 955, the CPU in the Kirin 960 is 8 percent faster; a good result considering the glower time zip. Generally system benchmarks like PCMark, we see gains of 10 to 15 percentage.

Compared to an SoC ill-used in many current-generation phones, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821, the Kirin 960 is a good 30 percent faster in Processor-limited workloads. Of naturally the Snapdragon 821 bequeath presently be superseded by the Snapdragon 835, only there's a good take a chance that the Kirin 960 will grip its ain against the S835 in CPU-intensifier tasks. This is what you'd want for an SoC launching ahead of Qualcomm's best: distinctly victor CPU operation.