Huawei has officially unvelied its latest super processor – Kirin 960 which brings with itself some strategic upgrades both in CPU and GPU. The Huawei Kirin 960 SoC comes with a modest upgrade in its CPU from Kirin 950 but on the GPU end, the new chipset sees a huge upgrade.

According to a source at the unveiling, Huawei Kirin 960 comes equipped with the recently unveiled high-performance ARM Cortex-A73 CPU core. The processor still uses the lower ARM Cortex-A53 core and in all the octa-core Kirin 960 SoC is composed of four Cortex-A73 cores and four Cortex-A53 cores.

More damning claim from the conference is the one concerning the Kirin 960 Versus Snapdragon 821 processor.  When subjected to Geekbench 4.0 test, the Kirin 960 is said to have scored 2000 points on the single-threaded scores and up to 6300 points on the multi-threaded score.

In addition to the CPU upgrade, the Huawei Kirin 960 chipset gets a big boost in its graphics unit, featuring the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU which were subjected to test on GFXBench Manhattan and T-Rex. The Kirin 960’s GPU performance comes out higher than that of Snapdragon 820 SoC and even twice as much power as Kirin 950. Apple A10 chip is still ahead, though.

According to Huawei, the Mali-G71 GPU is based on a truly new architecture which comes with a new level of high-end mobile graphics technology with superior energy efficiency. In addition, the Kirin 960 also supports the latest UFS 2.1 flash memory, LPDDR4 memory and on the network end, it supports LTE Cat.12 and LTE Cat. 13. A new baseband that supports CDMA is also at play.

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The Huawei Mate 9 would get the opportunity of being the first device to feature the Kirin 960 and until that happens we’ll only hold our peace concerning these stunning claims.

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Several smartphones have been benchmarked on AnTuTu and of late, we have had scores that could best be described as the highest so far in the smartphones circle and that should be the 172644 points polled by Apple’s A10 Fusion-powered iPhone 7. However, a new leak is suggesting that a record-breaking device with a total point score of 203737 points and scheduled for listing in the first quarter of 2017 has run through AnTuTu benchmark. The disclosure was made by a Twitter user @Ricciolo who tweeted that finally the 200k barrier has been broken. He left off without announcing the smartphone that achieved this incredible feat, leaving that to our imaginations.

203.737 !!! 200k barrier has been broken,and it's not FINAL … someone wanna try to guess ??? #antutu #Q12017 pic.twitter.com/teL4pzxXOo

— Ricciolo (@Ricciolo1) October 5, 2016

This is coming in as a huge surprise because apart form the iPhone 7 Plus, and iPhone 7 which pulled 170124 points, other Snapdragon 821-powered smartphones like the Xioami Mi 5S Plus, LeEco Le Pro 3, ASUS Zenfone 3 Deluxe hovered around 160,000 points when they were tested on AnTuTu. If true, then this would be the first device to have hit the 200,000 points mark on AnTuTu benchmark.

As of this moment, the only device expected in Q1 2017 is likely the Samsung Galaxy S8 whose release date Samsung is rumored to have pushed closer in orderly to help overcome the woeful outing of the still flopping Galaxy Note 7. The Galaxy S8 is expected to come powered by a new Exynos 8895 chip said to have a clock speed of up to 3.0GHz and tagging along an equally new and powerful Mali-G71 GPU. The Mali-G71 GPU is is said to be twice as fast as the Mali-T880 GPU in the present Exynos 8890 chips.

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In another light, it could be a device powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 chip which is expected to be produced using the 10nm node process and to drop next year as well. Don’t forget Qualcomm and Samsung are rumored to have formed a partnership that would see Samsung manufacture the Snapdragon 830 SoC. These are all speculations though, the 200K mark may still be unattainable and the rumor could be false. So we’ll take it with a pinch of salt and wait to see how it plays out.

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