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Until recently, it was believed that the HUAWEI Mate 60 and Mate X5 smartphones were equipped with an eight-core Kirin 9000s chip. However, with the release of Harmony OS 4.0.0.116 firmware, the situation changed – benchmarks began to “see” four more CPU cores. The authors of the Huawei Central portal tried to understand what was happening.
With the previous version of the OS, Geekbench described the Kirin 9000s as an eight-core processor with one super core (2.62 GHz), three performance cores (2.15 GHz), and four power efficiency cores (1.53 GHz). After the update, the benchmark “noticed” another “large” core and three productive cores with similar frequencies. One of the Chinese benchmarks demonstrates the same characteristics.
Even before the release, HUAWEI Mate 60 appeared in AnTuTu with a 12-core Kirin 9000s, but after the presentation, one of the bloggers reported that the chip has only eight cores. The authors of the “investigation” did not provide screenshots with test results, so it is unknown whether the processor became more powerful after such an upgrade or whether the “bonus” cores were simply hidden from performance testing applications.
Source: 4PDA