40 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44
REVIEW
Performance
Huawei uses its own-design processors in its phones
and the latest is the Kirin 970. It’s an eight-core chip
and, like Apple’s A11 Bionic, it has dedicated neural
network hardware which allows it to handle tasks
such as language translation and image classification
on the phone instead of requiring it to call home to
servers on the Internet.
Huawei says the performance of this so-called
NPU (Neural Processing Unit) is 25 times better than
the main CPU, and 50 times more efficient.
Overall the Kirin 970 is 20 percent more efficient
than the Mate 9’s Kirin 960 and the new Mali
G72-MP12 GPU is 50 percent more efficient.
All of this means the Mate 10 Pro has excellent
battery life. With a 4,000mAh capacity, it easily lastsGeekbench 4