Huawei is preparing to announce its new Mate 80 series later today. Inside the phones, the company will use its new Kirin 9030 chip, about which it hasn’t revealed anything so far.
However, a Mate 80 Pro Max has appeared on Geekbench just ahead of the launch, and the listing confirms several key details about the silicon.
Kirin 9030 has a nine-core CPU and Maleoon GPU
The benchmark shows the Kirin 9030 uses a 1+4+4 CPU setup for a total of nine cores. This includes a single 2.75GHz core, four 2.27GHz cores, and four 1.72GHz cores. The GPU is listed as the Maleoon 935, and the tested unit is a Mate 80 Pro Max with 16GB of RAM.
However, tipster Digital Chat Station points out on Weibo that the chip wasn’t running at full frequency during this run, which means the scores we’re seeing aren’t representative of what the chip can actually do.
Still, the numbers give us a rough idea. The Kirin 9030 pulled 1131 in the single-core and 4277 points in multi-core tests.
That said, it’s not surprising that the Kirin 9030 still lags far behind the best SoCs from Qualcomm or MediaTek. In fact, these performance scores are roughly what you’d expect from a Snapdragon 7-series chip.
Regardless, one of the most notable changes in this generation is structural. Huawei switched from an eight-core layout on the Kirin 9020 to a nine-core design on the Kirin 9030. Even without final results, that alone should translate into a meaningful performance bump.
For context, the Kirin 9020 uses a 1x 2.5GHz core, 3x 2.15GHz cores, and 4x 1.6GHz cores, along with a Maleoon 920 GPU.
We’ll know more once Huawei takes the stage later today.
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