HiSilicon Kirin 659
- GPU: Mali-T830 MP2
- Cores: 8
- Clock: 2360 MHz
HiSilicon Kirin 659 – an 8-core chipset that was announced on January 1, 2017, and is manufactured using a 16-nanometer process technology. It has 4 cores Cortex-A53 at 2360 MHz and 4 cores Cortex-A53 at 1700 MHz.
Review
Compare HiSilicon Kirin 659 with other SoCs
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksGeekBench 6
| Asset compression | 62.5 MB/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 27.2 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 39 Mpixels/sec |
| Image detection | 10 images/sec |
| HDR | 26.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Background blur | 0.84 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 6.86 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 1.71 Mpixels/sec |
| Samples | 5 tests |
Specifications
Detailed specifications of the Kirin 659 SoC with Mali-T830 MP2 graphicsCPU
| Architecture | 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53 4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 8 |
| Frequency | 2360 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A |
| Process | 16 nanometers |
| Transistor count | 4 billion |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali-T830 MP2 |
| Architecture | Midgard 4th gen |
| GPU frequency | 900 MHz |
| Pipelines | 2 |
| Shading units | 16 |
| Total shaders | 32 |
| FLOPS | 57.6 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 1.2 |
AI Accelerator
| Neural processor (NPU) | No |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR3 |
| Memory frequency | 933 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit |
| Max size | 4 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1 |
| Max display resolution | 1920 x 1200 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 16MP, 2x 8MP |
| Video capture | 1K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 1080p at 60FPS |
| Video codecs | - H.264 - H.265 |
| Audio codecs | - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV |
Connectivity
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 7 |
| 5G support | No |
| Download speed | Up to 300 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 50 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 4 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou |
Info
| Announced | January 2017 |
| Class | Mid range |
| Model number | Hi6250 |
| Successor | - HiSilicon Kirin 820 |
