Yesterday night Huawei has officially released its year-end flagship smartphone, Huawei Mate 9, and it is the first one to be powered by the latest Kirin 960 processor which is based on 16nm FF+ architecture, and first used the new generation Cortex-A73 and Mali-G71 GPU, compared with the last generation, its CPU performance has been improved to 15%. It can not only run faster, but also use longer under the high-performance state. Meanwhile, its GPU has reached to 180%, and efficiency improved 20% so that it can support 3D games playing longer.
Yesterday, on Geekbench data, it’s first to show the scores of Kirin 960 processor, the single core has 1941 scores, and 5996 multi-core points. Compared with Snapdragon 821 with 1863 single core scores and multi-core 4185 scores, Kirin 960 wins.
After that, Huawei Mate 9 Antutu scores has also been unveiled, according to @ice universe on Weibo, he leaked Huawei Mate 9 antutu score photo, it shows only over 120K antutu scores, compared with Snapdragon 821 processor with 150k scores, this kind of performance made us a little disappointed. So the main difference is in GPU.
According to the difference, many users have discussed it controversially, Huawei Mate 9 shouldn’t have this kind of low antutu scores whether in 3D part or CPU part, they both need to be optimized well. Stay tuned our review.