A few days ago, at the IFA 2019 in Berlin, Germany, China-based Huawei announced its much-awaited Kirin 990 5G flagship chipset for smartphones. The chipset comes with dual NPU hardware which not only makes it superior than its predecessor but also superior compared to its competition.
The AI Benchmark test puts the newly announced Kirin 990 5G chipset ahead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC, topping the rankings. The chipset has achieved a score of 52,403 in the test, far ahead compared to the scores of Unisoc Tiger T710 and Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets.
The Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G is a 7nm octa-core chipset that has 10.3 billion transistors. It uses two big, two middle and four little cores to optimize multitasking, with clock speeds of 2.86GHz, 2.36GHz and 1.95GHz respectively. The 990 5G also packs a 16-core Mali G76 graphics processor which should offer plenty of power for mobile gaming, as well as smart cache built in to reduce bandwidth by up to 15 percent.
It is also touted to be the first full-frequency 5G SoC — with support both non-standalone and standalone architectures as well as TDD/FDD full frequency bands. The Kirin 990 is a true unified design, supporting Sub-6 GHz 5G networks on both SA and NSA architectures.
For photography, it has a new fifth-generation Dual ISP boasts DSLR-level hardware noise reduction and block-matching and 3D filtering. Huawei’s smartphone cameras already produce stunning low-light results, but it looks like that can be improved further.
Aside from implementing the 5G modem, the biggest change in the Kirin 990 is going to be the NPU, or Neural Processing Unit. Boiled down to basics, it’s a co-processor optimized for the sort of vector math that’s the lifeblood of machine learning frameworks.
Huawei has scheduled a launch event in Munich on the 19th of September, where the company is expected to launch Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro flagship smartphones, which will be powered by this new Kirin 990 SoC.
Today, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has released a poster confirming a new lineup of smartphones — Honor Vera30. While nothing much is known about this new smartphone series, the company has confirmed that it’ll be powered by the Kirin 990 5G chipset.
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