Here is what you need to know about the new Kirin 985 processor

Honor today released the Honor 30 series of phones, and also announced the Kirin 985 processor.

The processor uses 1 + 3 + 4 eight-core CPU architecture, and the new Mail-G77 GPU, leading dual-core NPU.

Honor claims that its 5G downlink speed is 40% faster and its uplink speed is 75% faster.

The Honor 30 phone debuted with Kirin 985 processor.

Previously, Huawei has successively released two 5G chips, Kirin 990 and Kirin 820. The Kirin 985 is the third one this time.

The previous Kirin 820 was first carried by the Honor 30S.

Kirin 985 uses the same 5G Modem as Kirin 990, with a downstream rate of 1277Mbps and an upstream rate of 173Mbps.

Honor claims that the energy efficiency ratio of the Kirin 985 chip is 1.5 times that of the Snapdragon 865 + X55.

The Honor 30 Pro and Honor 30 Pro + are equipped with the Kirin 990 5G processor, which greatly improves performance and NPU by 460%.