Leaks show 'Huawei Kirin 950' zooming ahead of Samsung's Exynos 7420
Reports say that Huawei is already developing its Kirin 940 and Kirin 950 chipsets. In fact, an image showing the Kirin 950's scores in a single-core and multi-core test has leaked out into the internet. The image was taken from a Chinese website and compares the results of the Kirin 950 chipset to the results of the Samsung Exynos 7420 chipset.
According to the results, for the single-core test, the Kirin 950 chipset gathered a score of 1909 while the Exynos 7420 chipset got 1486. For the multi-core test, the Kirin 950 scored 6096 while the Exynos scored 4986. Does this mean the Huawei Kirin 950 is way ahead of the Samsung Exynos 7420 chipset?
Smartphone makers have started designing their own chips rather than getting one from traditional chipmakers like Qualcomm or MediaTek, to cut costs and maintain margins. The first to do so was Samsung. It designed the Exynos brand of SoCs that is regarded as one of the best of its kind.
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Chinese companies Huawei and Xiaomi too have started to look into manufacturing their own chipsets. Xiaomi has tied up with Leadcore to make self-designed chips while Huawei has also been designing its own chips for a while now for its Honor and Ascend Mate range of smartphones.
The previous Huawei Kirin 935 chips powering the latest P8 and P8lite smartphones were capable and efficient.
The Kirin 940 and Kirin 950 chips that Huawei has recently worked on are rumored to be nothing less than terrific. The Kirin 940 chip will be unveiled with Huawei's next mega release, the Huawei Mate 7S. The Kirin 950 will probably power the Huawei Mate 8, whose launch has been postponed to early next year.
The known specs of the Huawei Kirin 950 are:
1. An octa-core processor with 4x Cortex-A72 at 2.4GHz and 4x Cortex-A57
2. ARM's Mali-T880 GPU
3. The chipset will support up to 42-megapixel cameras
4. Cat.10 LTE modem with theoretical download speeds of up to 450 Mbps.
