Mystery solved, Kirin 9020 SoC fuels Huawei's new flagships

The mystery has been solved, Huawei has used the Kirin 9020 SoC inside its new flagships. As many of you know, the Huawei Mate X6 foldable, and four Huawei Mate 70 series smartphones launched yesterday.

The Kirin 9020 SoC fuels Huawei’s brand new flagships

All of those devices are the best Huawei has to offer at the moment, in both foldable and non-foldable smartphone space. With that being said, the Kirin 9100 SoC was rumored to fuel the devices. That’s not the case, though.

Huawei did not confirm the SoC during the launch, nor was the SoC model listed on the company’s website in China, as this launch event took place in China, and is for the Chinese market. The devices are expected to launch globally too, though.

In any case, the Kirin 9020 was just confirmed to be the SoC in question. The Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ benchmark revealed it, amongst other benchmarks that surfaced online recently.

Huawei’s CEO promised that the devices would get a 30% boost in performance, and it seems like this chip delivers that. This naming also makes sense as the Kirin 9010 was included in the Mate 60 series.

This is a 12-core CPU

The Kirin 9020 is a 12-core SoC with two prime cores clocked at 2.5GHz, six mid cores running at 2.1GHz, and four efficiency cores at 1.6GHz. Do note that hyperthreading may be a part of the package, though.

HiSilicon’s Taishan CPU cores may be used here, for the top two clusters, instead of ARM cores. The GPU is the Maleoon 920, it would seem, and it has a maximum clock speed of 840MHz.

The Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ managed to reach 1,248,520 points on AnTuTu. This shows that this chip cannot compete with the best from Qualcomm and MediaTek, but that was to be expected. It is, however, around 30% more powerful than the Kirin 9010.

We still don’t know what architecture was used to make this chip. It was first rumored that Huawei would come with a 5nm, then a 6nm one… but we don’t know what we got in the end.