The Kirin 990 is Huawei’s latest flagship processor. It is the chipset inside the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro and will be the SoC that will power Huawei and Honor‘s flagship for the next 10 months or thereabout.
Prior to the release of the Mate 30 series, the Kirin 990 was spotted on Geekbench powering an unknown Huawei device. After the launch, the chipset was benchmarked on AnTuTu, scoring less than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 Plus. Today, the Master Lu benchmark result for the processor has surfaced on the web.
The result reveals the test device is the 8GB RAM + 256GB version of the Mate 30. The device scored a total of 424261 points. A break down of the score shows that the device has a CPU score of 163,575, a GPU score of 160856, and a RAM/memory score of 42840, and a storage score of 56,990.
Compared to other devices, the Mate 30’s Master Lu score comes behind that of devices like the Nubia Red Magic 3 which has a score of 459,463 points and the Black Shark 2.
The Kirin 990 is a 7nm chipset with 8 cores in a 2 + 2 + 4 arrangement. It has 2x Cortex A76 cores clocked at 2.86GHz, another set of 2x A76 clocked at 2.09GHz, and 4x Cortex A55 cores clocked at 1.86GHz. Its GPU is a 16-core Mali-G76 and it has a dual-core NPU. There is also a Kirin 990 5G which is a 7nm + EUV chipset with some of its cores clocked higher than the non-5G version. It also has a tri-core NPU. Hence, the Master Lu score for the Mate 30 5G version should be higher than the above.
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