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so while we have recently announced the Kiran 980 and it's their new processor that's gonna find its way into the huawei mate 20 which is going to be announced in October hello my name is Gary Sims and this is Android Authority now if you're wondering about the keyring 980 what does it all mean then please let me explain first of all I want to say great that you could join me for this video today so we're looking at the architecture of the keyring 980 as well as some aspects of its performance so let's just jump straight into it and when we look at the CPU side of this processor we see that while we have gone with the Quartus a 76 and the cortex a 55 and that's important for two reasons first of all compared to the previous generation the ki-rin 970 which used the cortex a 73 while we have made a generational leap they've left over the court it's a 75 and gone straight with the cortex a 76 that means that when you compare the performance of the 980 compared to the 970 you're gonna see big CPU performance gains secondly it means that now that while they are using dynamic which is a new way of organizing the CPU cores inside of the SOC so that you can have up to eight processor cores in the same cluster now I have whole videos on the court it's a 76 and another video on dynamic and you'll find links to those in the description below a tradition when we talk about heterogeneous multi-processing we talk about for high-performance cores and for energy efficient core so previously you might have had that say the court is a seventy three four of those and then the cortex a53 four of those but now with the curie 980 things are slightly different yes there are four quarters a seventy six cores and there are four quarters a fifty five calls but actually they're configured in a two plus two plus fork setup that's because the first two quarters a sublease it's cause have a max clock speed of 2.6 gigahertz then the next two quarters eight empty seats cause have a max speed of 1.9 two gigahertz and then finally you get the forecourt it's a 55 calls and they're clocked at 1.8 gigahertz what this allows whywe to do is to give good single thread performance because one of those faster clock caught it's a 76 calls will be used and then when it gets into a very multi-threaded situation you've got four quarters a seventy six calls and then of course a total of eight calls including those courses a fifty five calls so that should make the overall performance both single threading and multi-threaded significantly higher in the ki-rin 980 they just talked a bit about the manufacturing of this this is a seven enemy2 process at the latest newest node that is available from TSMC and while we are proud they are one of the first to be on seven nanometer and it's actually got six point nine billion transistors in it and that's up from the five point five billion transistors that you find in the keyring 970 they should talk GPU for a moment the keyring 980 has got the mali g76 with ten cores inside of it and it will offer a 46% performance increase compared to the keyring 970 which had been mali g72 inside of it so we're looking again for a significant cpu increases and significant GPU increases some of the things worth mentioning now is that the 980 has got to NPU units the NP units that we found first of all in the queue in 970 has now been doubled up in the keyring 980 and it should have a hundred and twenty percent performance of the Kon 970 when it comes to in pu processing and again i've got a whole video about NP use and how they work in the 970 and it's basically the same story in the 980 and you can find links to that in the description below it's also worth noting that the 980 uses a higher clock speed lpddr4 memory which should give you about a 14% increase in overall memory bandwidth as I mentioned earlier this new CPU uses dynamic which means now for the first time we have a processor from Huawei that has level 3 cache and compared to for example the Snapdragon 845 which had 2 megabytes of level 3 cache while we have opted for 4 megabytes of level 3 cache in the 980 again that will have a significant improvement on the overall performance of this processor as you expect the process has all the other things you would need inside of it including a new and improved evening signal processor and new and improved LTE modems this time cat 21 and cat 18 so let's just talk performance for a moment the figures that while we're quoting and we can only go by what while we're quoting at the moment is that in the single thread score for Geekbench the ki-rin 980 will get a score 3 3 6 over 3000 360 which is 37% greater than the current single thread score of the Snapdragon 845 and when it comes to GPU gains of course again Huawei are quoting big improvement and they're saying the GPU in the 980 is faster than the GPU in the Snapdragon 845 but there are two quick caveats for that one is that that needs to have the GPU boost technology enabled and that something has to be built into the game itself it's not something you get automatically the game has to support that technology to get that extra framerate and secondly there are accusations that while we have been cheating a little when it comes to benchmarks to kind of bump up the performance when it sees a benchmark running so really we have to wait until we get the mate 20 in our hands to see what the real benchmark figures are and the context of all of this of course is that when it comes to the Android ecosystem they are comparing it to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and we know that probability Qualcomm will have a new chip that they're going to announce sometime in December for new handsets that can appear in 2019 but of course the point is that now you can actually get the mate 20 in 2018 with this processor with the court it's a 76 with the latest mali processor ok so there you have it the new Kirin 980 the latest calls from arm the latest GPUs faster memory better NPU new improved image signal processor so it looks like a really good package so my name's Gary Sims and this is Andrew Authority I really do hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also don't forget to subscribe and please do hit that Bell notification icon so you get notified whenever we drop a new video okay that's it I'll see you the next one