Huawei is prepping a new 16nm FinFET chipset

Aug 17, 2015 07:54 GMT  ·  By

The Samsung-produced Exynos 7420 processor is a very capable silicon piece powering high-end devices like the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+.

It seems that Samsung’s mobile platform will soon be getting some competition from the likes of LG and Huawei. The NUCLUN 2 octa-core processor manufactured by LG has recently popped up in benchmarks and showed an improved performance compared to Exynos.

And now Huawei’s upcoming Kirin 950 has been spotted by the folks of Wccftech going through benchmarks too, so we can compare it to the Exynos 7420 as well.

The Kirin 950 is expected to be made using TSMC’s 16nm FinFET processes and will be running an octa-core processor, with four cores being of the Cortex-A72 variety with a clock speed of 2.4GHz. By contrast, Eyxnos 7420 features four Cortex-A57 cores. So here’s how the two compare against each other in the Geekbench benchmarking website.

Huawei Kirin 950 vs. Samsung Exynos 7420

The Kirin 950 scored 1,909 points in the single-core test, while in the multi-core test the chipset grabbed 6,096 points. On the other side of the fence, the Exynos 7420 scored 1,486 points in the single-core test and in the multi-core test, the chip snatched 4,970 points. As you can see, it’s a pretty big difference.

On the other hand, Samsung is not wasting any time either, as the Korean tech giant is actively developing a new Mongoose SoC which will apparently be quite powerful. Sammy is poised to be putting this chipset inside its upcoming flagships coming out in 2016.

Going back to Huawei, at this point we should be treating this piece of info as the rumor it is and take all we have shared with you above with a healthy grain of salt.

The Kirin 950 will probably make it into Huawei’s upcoming flagships, so we still have a few months to wait until we can see how the SoC really performs.

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