Huawei recently launched its Mate 80 series alongside the Mate X7 foldable, all powered by the new Kirin 9030 series chipsets. Notably, there are two variants of this SoC: the standard Kirin 9030, featured in the Mate 80 and select Mate 80 Pro models, and the more advanced Kirin 9030 Pro, reserved for the Mate 80 Pro (16/512GB), Mate 80 Pro Max, Mate 80 RS Ultimate, and the Mate X7.
While Huawei has yet to disclose full specifications for these chipsets, Weibo users have shared screenshots revealing some hardware differences between the two versions.
Kirin 9030 Pro (left) vs Kirin 9030 (right)The Kirin 9030 Pro features a 9-core CPU architecture with 14 threads. According to the screenshots, its prime cores are clocked at 2.75GHz, performance cores at 2.27GHz, and efficiency cores at 1.72GHz.
Meanwhile, the Kirin 9030 also employs a 9-core CPU but with 12 threads. Both chips share identical clock speeds, ARMv8 CPU cores, and utilize the Mali-G77 935 GPU.
Rumors suggest that the Kirin 9030 series is fabricated using SMIC's N+3 (6nm) process node, similar to the Kirin 9100 found in the Mate 70 series. More official details on the Kirin 9030 chips are expected soon.
