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Huawei
Huawei Kirin 970
HiSilicon's 10 nm flagship chip, unveiled at IFA 2017 and first sold in the Huawei Mate 10, with the P20 series and Honor View 10 following. It pairs four Cortex-A73 and four Cortex-A53 cores with a 12-core Mali-G72 GPU and a dedicated NPU; Huawei billed it as its first mobile AI computing platform.
Pros
- Dedicated NPU that Huawei claimed delivers up to 25x the performance and 50x the efficiency of a quad Cortex-A73 cluster on AI tasks
- Integrated LTE Cat 18 modem with up to 1.2 Gbps download and 150 Mbps upload
- Built on TSMC's 10 nm process with 5.5 billion transistors, per Huawei
Cons
- Huawei's chip page lists no GPU clock, TDP, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth specifications
- Integrated modem is LTE only, with no 5G support
Awaiting benchmarks
No Inno Score yet: CPU and GPU still need a published benchmark result.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Huawei Kirin 970
General
- Announced
- 2017
- Process
- 10 nm
- Architecture
- ARM (Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A53 cores)
CPU
- Cores
- 8
- Core configuration
- 4x2.36 GHz Cortex-A73 + 4x1.84 GHz Cortex-A53
- Max clock
- 2.36 GHz
GPU
- GPU
- Arm Mali-G72 MP12
AI
- NPU
- Dedicated NPU (HiAI)
Memory
- Memory type
- LPDDR4X
Connectivity
- Modem
- Integrated LTE Cat-18/13
- Max download
- 1.2 Gbps
Media
- Video capture
- 4K@30fps
Quick answers
Is the Huawei Kirin 970 good in 2026?
We haven't scored the Huawei Kirin 970 yet: there are no published CPU and GPU benchmark results for it in our database, and we don't score chips on their spec sheet alone. HiSilicon's 10 nm flagship chip, unveiled at IFA 2017 and first sold in the Huawei Mate 10, with the P20 series and Honor View 10 following. It pairs four Cortex-A73 and four Cortex-A53 cores with a 12-core Mali-G72 GPU and a dedicated NPU; Huawei billed it as its first mobile AI computing platform.
What are the key specs of the Huawei Kirin 970?
Cores: 8 · Process: 10 nm · GPU: Arm Mali-G72 MP12
What are the closest alternatives to the Huawei Kirin 970?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Qualcomm Snapdragon 660, MediaTek Helio P35 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
