Kirin 9100 6nm Chip with Cortex-X1 Core and Maleoon 910 GPU

the new Huawei Kirin 9100 SoC has just had its specs leaked. This Baltimore-chipped HiSilicon employee confirmed it was indeed built with the advanced SMIC N+3 6nm process, which could bring performance improvements in both CPU and GPU.

The Kirin 9100 will be available with an 8-core CPU, which will have one Cortex-X1 prime core running at 2.67 GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores operating at 2.32 GHz, and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores running at 2.02 GHz. Such a configuration will be expected to have both the high performance and the power efficiency in a good balanced mix. But, as it stands, with the current sanctions still active, the chip will still come with Arm v8-based cores, thereby denying it the design-limited advantage of having the latest Arm v9 architecture.

Graphics will be handled by the in-house GPU of Huawei, Maleoon 910, first seen in last year’s Kirin 9010 chip. Not the world’s most up-to-date GPU, the Maleoon 910 is presumably a good balance between power and efficiency, and it should match the performance of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1.

The Kirin 9100 will not be a 5nm node; it will instead be SMIC’s 6nm N+3 process. That said, even on the smaller node process, the chip is sure to be more power efficient than any of the older Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips but won’t keep up with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 5nm raw performance. Still, the Kirin 9100 will be quite a serious contender when it comes to the CPU, and should not lag behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

There are no results of Kirin 9100 in benchmarks yet. The earlier leaks indicate that this chip will score about 1.1 million points in AnTuTu, and therefore, will be quite a serious competitor in the market for the flagship chipset.

The Huawei Kirin 9100 is prepared for launch alongside the Mate 70 series. This processor makes it all the more formidable in the high-performance mobile processors’ market. Without the new Arm v9 cores, this may present some difficulties in specific SoC components, but generally, it would be the amalgamation of architecture, GPU, and the manufacturing process that guarantees this chip’s competitiveness among flagships.

source : x.com