How efficient is Kirin 810? The comparison of these flagship chips may give you an answer!

In the mobile phone industry, there are not many Socs currently using the 7nm process.

So what does 7nm mean? And what new features will it bring?

In today’s market, only Kirin 980, the latest Kirin 810, Snapdragon 855, upgraded Snapdragon 855 Plus, Apple A12, A13. The 7nm process is currently used for the flagship level, and the most obvious advantage of the 7nm process is that the chip consumes less power and has a smaller area.

In addition to the advanced process, the Kirin 810 Soc has a significant increase in CPU and NPU performance. The NPU part also adopts a new self-developed DaVinci architecture, and the AI performance is greatly improved. Among them, it is the strongest in the AI Benchmark running list, and it also surpasses the Kirin 980. Let's take a look at the strength of this chip by carrying the HONOR 9X PRO of the Kirin 810 Soc.

Superior AI performance >> Improve user experience

First, in the AI performance test section, we use AI-Benchmark software. The AI-Benchmark software provides a benchmarking system to evaluate AI performance, including object recognition, face recognition, image enhancement, and more. The test project will reflect the AI processing, speed, accuracy, initialization time and so on. It has a great reference significance for AI capabilities.

In the AI-Benchmark run score, the overall score is 30133. Although the AI running score did not reach the best level of the Kirin 810, but through the software leaderboard, you can see that the top three are equipped with the Kirin 810 Soc model, and even the Kirin 980 is left behind. Has a big advantage in AI performance.

In fact, many users who say AI performance will feel that the presence of AI is very low. In fact, AI has been applied in many ways to enhance the experience. For example, smart scene recognition, accelerated picture processing, AI super night scene, smart video anti-shake, etc. when taking pictures. These are the benefits that users can actually feel about AI.

CPU performance >> flagship level

Kirin 810 Soc uses TSMC 7nm process technology, designed for 2+6 core. Two custom Cortex-A76 large cores (2.27GHz) + six Cortex-A55 small core (1.88GHz) eight core combinations, in addition to strong performance, can also achieve more flexible scheduling. The Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 are also used on the Kirin 980, but the frequency is not the same, the performance is still better than the Kirin 980.

We use the Geekbench 4 software to test CPU single core and multicore performance. Kirin 810's single-core score was 2789 points, and multi-core score was 7664 points. We also joined the running data of Snapdragon 855, Kirin 980, Snapdragon 845 and Snapdragon 710 for comparison. This time, because there is no model equipped with the Snapdragon 730, I did not include this data.

Geekbench4 single core score comparison

Geekbench4 multi-core score comparison

We can see from the above running score comparison, Snapdragon's previous generation flagship processor Snapdragon 845 has a single-core score of 2387 points and a multi-core score of 8835 points. From the point of view of running points, the single-core performance of Kirin 810 is stronger than that of Snapdragon 845, and the multi-core performance gap is not large. Judging from the data, the performance of the Kirin 810 has easily reached the flagship standard, and the distance from the Snapdragon 710 is relatively large.

GPU performance >> greatly improved than the previous generation

The Kirin 810 is equipped with a Mali-G52 6-core custom GPU. It does not directly use the public version of the Mali-G52. By adding it to 6 cores, there will naturally be a relatively large upgrade in performance. Compared with the Kirin 710's Mali-G51, there will be a big improvement, and there will be better performance in the game.

For GPU performance testing, we used a cross-platform 3DMark running software to benchmark Android phones. The software ultimately provides far more than just scores, as well as unique charts, rankings, and more to understand device performance. In terms of 3D performance testing, we also added the above mainstream chips for comparison.

3DMark's Sling Shot Extreme mode is a graphics processing performance benchmark for smartphones and tablets that can test two different graphics API interfaces, OpenGL ES 3.1 or Vulkan. The test project includes a full set of API functions, and the final test results can reflect the 3D graphics processing performance of the machine. The actual results can reflect the game performance of the machine to a certain extent.

3Dmark Sling Shot Extreme-OpenGL ES 3.1 GPU Test

3Dmark Sling Shot Extreme-Vulkan GPU Test 

In the 3Dmark graphics performance test, although Kirin 810 and Snapdragon 845 and their own Kirin 980 have a large gap, but also can maintain a strong strength. Taking into account the 7nm process, the power consumption advantage will be obvious, and it can better maintain the smoothness of the game for a long time.

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