HiSilicon

HiSilicon Kirin 960

HiSilicon
Updated On: 10 Oct, 2026

Kirin 960 is a Flagship mobile platform built on the 16 nanometers manufacturing process. Announced on October 2016, it packs 8 CPU cores and a powerful Mali-G71 MP8 GPU.

Process Node
16 nanometers
CPU Cores
8
Max Bandwidth
28.8 Gbit/s
GPU Clock
1037 MHz
📶 5G: No 📡 4G LTE Supported 5 BT 4.2

Performance Overview

CPU Performance
34
Gaming Performance
21
Battery Efficiency
34

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Specifications

Complete hardware architecture, GPU capabilities, memory standards, and connectivity tech specs.

Product Details
Model: Kirin 960
Brand HiSilicon
Class Flagship
Released on: October 2016
Model Number: Hi3660
Architecture & Process
Architecture4x 2.36 GHz - Cortex-A73, 4x 1.84 GHz - Cortex-A53
Cores 8
Frequency 2360 MHz
Instruction Set ARMv8-A
Transistor Count 4 billion
L1 Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 4 MB
Process 16 nanometers
TDP 5 W
Graphics
GPU Name Mali-G71 MP8
Graphics Architecture Bifrost
GPU Frequency1037 MHz
Execution Units 8
Shading Units 128
Flops 282 Gigaflops
Vulkan Version 1.0
Opencl Version 1.2
Directx Version 11.3
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4
Memory BUS 2x 32 Bit
Memory Frequency 1600 MHz
Max Bandwidth28.8 Gbit/s
Max Size4 GB
Storage Type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Multimedia
Neural ProcessorNo
Max Display Resolution2520 x 1080
Max Camera Resolution2x 16MP
Video Capture 4K at 30FPS
Video Playback 4K at 30FPS
Video Codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio Codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G LTE Cat. 12
5G No
Download Speed Up to 600 Mbps
Upload Speed Up to 150 Mbps
Wi Fi 5
Bluetooth 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

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HiSilicon Kirin 960 Benchmark Scores

Standard synthetic performance benchmark evaluations.

Antutu

AnTuTu Score

CPU70319
GPU61547
Memory54634
UX66647
Total score251169
Geekbench

Geekbench Score

Single-Core Score378
Multi-Core Score1576
Image compression82.7 Mpixels/s
Face detection12.5 images/s
Speech recognition28.75 words/s
Machine learning21.45 images/s
Camera shooting11.8 images/s
HTML 51.79 Mnodes/s
SQLite453.85 Krows/s