On September 5, Honor released the highly anticipated 8X series of Smartphones. Among them, Honor 8X not only adopts COF packaging technology but also achieves a screen ratio of 91%. At the same time, it also adopted the Kirin 710 processor for the first time in the Honor phones, which attracted many users to be curious about the performance of Honor 8X.
The users who know the mobile phone must know that the Kirin 710 above the Honor 8X and the Snapdragon 710 previously launched by Qualcomm, so we simply pulled the Snapdragon 710 and the Honor 8X to a hard competition. What level is the Kirin 710? I can see it at a glance!
First of all, let’s take a look at the performance of both processors
The Kirin 710 adopts TSMC’s new 12nm process technology which is improved by TSMC’s 16nm depth, with higher transistor integration, better performance, and lower power consumption. TSMC 12nm was also very popular after its launch. In addition to HiSili, Nvidia, MediaTek, and Huirong also chose this new process.
Above the CPU, using the big.LITTLE size core architecture of 4*A73+4*A53, this aspect is also in line with the flagship Kirin 970, which is quite surprising.
On the GPU, the Kirin 710 uses four ARM Mali G51s. Like the Mali G71 on the flagship, the Mali G51 also uses the Bifrost architecture and also supports API interfaces such as Vulkan, OpenCL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 3.2. The difference lies in the Mali G51. More emphasis on energy consumption.
On the network, the Kirin 710 supports the uplink speed of Cat.12 and the downlink speed of Cat.13. It also adds support for LPDDR4X memory and UFS2.1 flash memory.
The Snapdragon 710 uses the same 2nd-generation 10nm process from Samsung as its own Snapdragon 845. The CPU has chosen a relatively rare 2 large 6-small design, using the first Kryo 380 on the? 845. Kryo 360.
On the GPU, Qualcomm’s own Adreno 616 is used, which supports the uplink speed Cat.13 and the downlink speed Cat.15 LTE network. The memory and flash memory support is similar to the Kirin 710, up to LPDDR4X and UFS2.1.
If we look at the materials alone, it seems that we still have a hard time understanding the gap between the two. Let’s take a look at the benchmark scores of both processors. In this part, we chose Antutu, GeekBench, and GFXBench to test their overall performance, CPU performance, and GPU performance:
From the above data, Kirin 710 and Snapdragon 710 have little difference in CPU performance, and there is a certain gap in GPU performance. Therefore, the performance of Kirin 710 is not dominant in GFXBench and Antutu.
However, it is worth noting that the above data is still theoretical data. In terms of actual experience, the performance of the processor will be greatly affected by the optimization of the mobile phone by the manufacturer.
And at the press conference, the president of Honor George Zhao also specifically emphasized the upgrade of GPU Turbo technology with the Honor 8X of Kirin 710. In this regard, we use the two games of Jedi Survival: Stimulate the Battlefield and King Glory on Honor 8X. The Kirin 710 and the Snapdragon 710 were tested.
Game test
Here we choose GameBench to monitor the real-time frame rate in mobile games so that the frame rate fluctuation curve and frame rate data can truly represent the real state of the mobile phone when running the game.
Because the mobile phone needs to be connected to the computer during the test, in order to avoid the impact of charging on the temperature of the mobile phone and ensure the fairness of the test, we will charge both Smartphones to the full state and test in the same Wi-Fi environment. The other variables are at the same level.
First look at “Jesus Survival: Stimulate the Battlefield” (HD quality, maximum frame rate 30FPS):
From the frame rate curve, both Smartphones have certain fluctuations, but the frame rate curve of the Snapdragon 710 is relatively more stable. The Honor 8X equipped with the Kirin 710 has a certain fluctuation in the driving scene.
Even so, the median frame rate of the two phones (the median frame rate, which is the frame rate of most scenes in the game) is still the highest 30FPS, and there is no gap in this respect.
Before testing “Glory of the King” (full effect, multi-threading, high frame rate), I thought that both phones should have fairly close and excellent performance, but the final test results are not like this:
In order to verify that the prototype equipped with Kirin 710 was not caused by a single performance abnormality, I have tested the device several times, and even restored the factory settings to re-install, but the test results are still as shown above.
This problem is even directly reflected in the median frame rate. The median frame rate of the prototype using the Snapdragon 710 is only 58FPS, while the Kirin 710 can reach the full frame rate. Obviously, the Snapdragon 710, which was slightly better than the benchmark test, lost in the “Glory of the King” which is not very demanding.
Conclusion Hardware is important, but optimization can’t be ignored.
From this point of view, in our actual measurement, the prototype equipped with Snapdragon 710, although the hardware is better but ultimately lost in software optimization. The Honor 8X equipped with the Kirin 710 regained a game with optimization and “great” GPU Turbo technology.
This result also reminds some manufacturers that the stock may look very horrible, but the manufacturer’s optimization of SoC is equally important. I believe that you should have a certain understanding of the performance of Honor 8X. Under the help of Kirin 710, it is not difficult for Honor 8X to run online games such as “Stimulus Battlefield” and “Glory of the King”.
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