Details on the new Kirin 9020 chipset surface, here’s what is inside the new Mate 70 series | Infinium-tech

Huawei unveiled the new Mate 70 series earlier today, but was secretive about which chipsets are used in the new phones. Initial speculation pointed towards a “Kirin 9100” with ARM Cortex cores, but that appears not to be the case – although this is also based on unofficial information coming from Weibo.

An image of one of the new Huawei Mate 70 phones shows that the chipset is said to be Kirin 9020. It would make sense for a successor to the Kirin 9010.

Unofficial details on HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Hardware information The app describes a 12-core CPU – two prime cores up to 2.5 GHz, six middle cores up to 2.1 GHz and four small cores up to 1.6 GHz. There is one “but” here, because the chipset supports hyperthreading, that is, two logical cores on one physical core. Except that not all cores have hyperthreading (yes, this is getting complicated).

The Kirin 9010 had a 1+3+4 configuration of physical cores with hyperthreading on the large and middle cores, but not on the small cores, so the logical CPU cores are 2+6+4. This is exactly what we are seeing with the Kirin 9020.

This suggests that the new Kirin chip uses HiSilicon’s Taishan CPU cores for the top two clusters and not ARM cores. That said, the four smaller cores are likely Cortex-A510 like previous 9000-series chips.

huawei mate 70 pro

The GPU is another in-house design, listed as the Malone 920. It runs at up to 840 MHz, which is up from the Melun 910 on the Kirin 9010 (up to 750 MHz). There are no details on the architecture and compute unit calculations on the new GPU.

According to Huawei’s internal testing, the Kirin 9020 is about 40% faster than the previous chipset used in the Pura 70 series. However, the vanilla Huawei Mate 70 can also use the 9010, while the 9020 chips are reserved for the higher-end models: the Mate 70 Pro, Pro+, and RS Ultimate. Probably the Mate X6 also got the new chipset. Again, this is just speculation, Huawei has not officially provided any details on the matter.

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