
Kirin 970 is powered by an 8-core CPU and a new generation 12-core GPU. Built using a 10nm advanced process, the chipset packs 5.5 billion transistors into an area of only one cm². Huawei’s flagship Kirin 970 mobile AI computing platform features a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
According to Huawei, compared to a quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU cluster, the Kirin 970's new heterogeneous computing architecture delivers up to 25x the performance with 50x greater efficiency. In a benchmark image recognition test, the Kirin 970 processed 2,000 images per minute, Huawei also said.