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HiSilicon Kirin 955

HiSilicon Kirin 955

HiSilicon Kirin 955 is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from HiSilicon. It began to be released in April 2016. The SoC has 8 cores produced using 16 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 2500 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name
HiSilicon
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
April 2016
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
Kirin 955
Architecture
4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
Cores
8
Technology
16 nm
Frequency
2500 MHz
Instruction set
ARMv8-A

GPU Specifications

GPU name
Mali-T880 MP4
GPU frequency
900 MHz
Max display resolution
1920 x 1080
FLOPS
0.1152 TFLOPS
Execution units
4
Shading units
16
OpenCL version
1.2
Vulkan version
1.0
DirectX version
11.2

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
No
Bluetooth
4.2
Wi-Fi
5
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

Memory type
LPDDR4
Memory Bus
2x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

Audio codecs
AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
No
TDP
5 W

Geekbench 6

Single Core
299
Multi Core
1040

FP32 (float)

114

Compared to Other SoC

0%
1%
19%
Better then 0% SOC over the past year
Better then 1% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 19% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

176
Ranks 176 among all SOC on our website
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