Huawei Mate 9 will adopt Kirin 960 Processor

Latest news showed that the Huawei Mate 9 mobile will not be released on IFA of this year, but this mobile has been on test. Recently GFXBench data appears a Huawei New Model, which is equipped with 5.9 inch screen and pre-installed with Android 7.0 OS, processor name is Hi3660, which is more probably the Kirin 960 Huawei Mate 9 model, but the precise release date has not been clear at present.
HUAWEI Mate 9 Configurations
Judging from the infos above, this new Huawei mobile will use a 5.9 inch touch screen with 1080P resolution, has 4GB RAM + 64GB storage combination, and carried with the full new Android 7.0 operating system, equipped with 8.0MP front camera + 12.0MP back camera, with LED flashlight and support HDR and 4K video recording.

As for the processor specs that concerned most, this machine will carry a 2.6GHz octa core processor, and integrated with Mali-T880 GPU, which seems no difference. However, the processor model is Hi3660, which is obviously different with Huawei's previous Kirin 955 processor, which means this new mobile phone will carry a new generation Kirin processor, and the core of the Mali-T880 of the processor is predicted to be upgraded.

HUAWEI Mate 9 may comes with Kirin 960 Processor
HUAWEI Mate 9 release date may be at the end of this year

Though this new cell phone will be equipped with new processor, the hardware specs may not be the final configuration. For the screen size on GFXBench occurred identify error, and previous news indicated that Huawei MATE 9 will be equipped with 20.0MP dual camera. As a result, if this exposed machine is really the Huawei Mate 9, it is more probably the prototype.

As for the Huawei Mate 9 release date, Huawei Official has showed that it will not appear on IFA at the early of September, instead of launching a middle-end flagship product. At the same time, reliable news reveals that Huawei Mate9 will be released in this year, while we have to wait it until November.

Source from: http://www.androidmall.co.uk/blog/huawei-mate-9-will-adopt-kirin-960-processor/