Huawei releases 7nm Kirin 810 SoC with DaVinci NPU

Huawei just revealed HiSilicon's Kirin 810 SoC, the successor of Kirin 710 last year. It's the first mid-range chip built under the 7nm process like most 2019 flagship chips.

Kirin 810

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 killer?

Kirin 810 uses ARM's 2x Cortex-A76 big cores clocked at 2.27GHz and 6x Cortex-A55 smaller cores clocked at 1.88GHz. It is paired with an ARM's Mali-G52 MP6 GPU which promises a 162 percent performance increase versus the Mali-G51 MP4 GPU last year.

It offers improved gaming with system-level AI FM scheduling tech, GPU underlying driver upgrades, GPU load optimization, and HD game effects optimization. 

Huawei also said that it has the AI frequency modulation scheduling technology can learn frame rate, fluency and touch screen input changes in real-time, predict mobile phone task load, dynamically sense performance bottlenecks in mobile phone use, and according to perform frequency modulation scheduling, and improve prediction accuracy compared with traditional prediction methods.

Meanwhile, the GPU series optimization technology is designed to reduce repeated instructions and GPU overload, and speed up the data transfer speed between CPU, GPU, and memory.

It also uses Huawei's Gaming+ HD game special effects optimization to improve game quality, clarity, light and dark contrast, and closer to the real-world gaming experience.

Kirin 810 also highlights Huawei's Da Vinci Architecture based on Rubik’s Cube Quantitative Stereo Arithmetic Unit.

ISP versus SD730

There's a new IVP + ISP tech to offer flagship image processing capability with an upgraded pixel processing unit, enhanced white balance algorithm, noise reduction in RAW image processing and more. Huawei said that it is better than Snapdragon 730's Spectra 350 ISP even in low light.

The new chip also goes with support for Always-on Dual SIM Dual VoLTE support.

CPU performance

Based on benchmarks, Kirin 810 offers 11 percent better single-core-scores and 13 percent better multi-core scores than Snapdragon 730 at Geekbench.

GPU performance

At GFXBench 1080p Mahattan test, Huawei claimed that its Mali-G52 MP6 GPU offers a 44 percent improve frame rate over the Adreno 618 of SD730. It is can also provide a 15 percent better frame rate in GFXBench 1080p T-Rex test.

AI benchmark

For AI, Kirin 810's new NPU scored 32,280 points in the AI benchmark, a score higher than Snapdragon 855 and MediaTek Helio P90.

The first phone to feature the new Kirin 810 is the newly announced Nova 5. Expect to see it with future mid-range Huawei and HONOR phones in the near future as well.

Source: FoneArena