Huawei Kirin 810: new mid-range SoC for smartphones

While most attention has been paid to both high-end alternatives (such as Kirin 980), Huawei has submitted the new Kirin 810 midrange smartphone processor these days, which, however, utilizes the elder brother's same production method 7 nm.

Huawei Kirin 810 is the first processor to use DaVinci architecture constructed internally by the Chinese company Artificial Intelligence. This enables the fresh SoC to reach a very high score when considering the NPU's computing authority.

Huawei Kirin 810's design offers an octa-core framework (2+ 6) separated into two cores based on Cortex-A76 architecture with 2.27 GHz frequency and six Cortex-A55 cores with 1.88 GHz frequency. As always, this type of structure provides for the possibility of using the power of the most powerful cores (A76) or saving energy using the less powerful ones (A55).

The embedded GPU is a Mali-G52 MP6 (always of ARM origin) which should also support the Kirin Gaming + technology, leading to a 162 percent rise in efficiency relative to Kirin 710. By contrast, the output should be 44 percent better than the Snapdragon 730 GPU (Adreno 618).

As for the portion devoted to the camera, the general performance can be enhanced thanks to the NPU DaVinci, support for the recent white balance algorithm generation, noise reduction, support for RAW file management, enhanced AR management.

The Artificial Intelligence always enables the exchanges between the different subsystems to be improved and the CPU and GPU frequency to be better managed. The connectivity of the modem offers assistance for VoLTE on two SIM cards. The first smartphone to use Kirin 810 is Huawei Nova 5, but with this processor we are very probable to see other models by the end of the year.