HUAWEI Mate 20 Performance - Work, Gaming, Battery, Recharging Speed
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Work Performance – PCMark
We tested the HUAWEI Mate 20’s performance using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.
| Work 2.0 | HUAWEI Mate 20 | Honor Play | Samsung Galaxy Note9 |
Samsung Galaxy A7 |
| Performance Score (Average) |
10215 | 7361 | 5557 | 5379 |
| Web Browsing | 10960 | 7695 | 5763 | 5278 |
| Video Editing | 6147 | 5499 | 5410 | 4413 |
| Writing | 12506 | 6649 | 5421 | 5056 |
| Photo Editing | 20262 | 13326 | 5898 | 7427 |
| Data Manipulation | 6514 | 5764 | 5316 | 5147 |
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The new HiSilicon Kirin 980 demonstrated just how fast it is. It beat the Honor Play, which uses the last-generation Kirin 970, by almost 39%! It was almost 84% faster than the Exynos 9810 used in the Samsung Galaxy Note9, and is 90% faster than the Exynos 7885 used in the Galaxy A7 2018.
Gaming Performance – 3DMark
Next, we tested the HUAWEI Mate 20’s gaming performance using 3DMark, using the Ice Storm Unlimited test.
| Ice Storm Unlimited | HUAWEI Mate 20 | Samsung Galaxy Note9 |
Honor Play | Samsung Galaxy A7 |
| Gaming Score | 61595 | 42598 | 31622 | 15354 |
| Graphics | 72523 | 51199 | 37351 | 15788 |
| Physics | 40327 | 26825 | 20576 | 14005 |
| Graphics Test 1 | 386.2 fps | 330.2 fps | 208.9 fps | 136.5 fps |
| Graphics Test 2 | 266.4 fps | 167.9 fps | 132.8 fps | 45.8 fps |
| Physics Test | 128.0 fps | 85.2 fps | 65.3 fps | 44.5 fps |
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The HiSilicon Kirin 980 once again proved its superiority. It was almost twice as fast as its predecessor, the Kirin 970 (which powered the Honor Play.
Impressively, it proved to be 45% faster than the Samsung Galaxy Note9, and was 4X faster than the Galaxy A7 2018!
Battery Life – PCMark
We then tested the HUAWEI Mate 20’s battery performance using PCMark. It basically ran the PCMark work tests until its battery capacity dropped to 20%.
| Work 2.0 | HUAWEI Mate 20 | Samsung Galaxy A7 |
Samsung Galaxy Note9 |
Honor Play |
| Battery Life | 12 hours 19 mins | 10 hours 25 mins | 10 hours 15 mins | 9 hours 56 mins |
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Even though it has the same battery capacity as the Samsung Galaxy Note9, and is almost twice as fast in the Work 2.0 test, the Mate 20 lasted two hours longer in this stress test!
This means the HUAWEI Mate 20 (US | UK | MY) is about 20% more efficient than the Galaxy Note9. VERY IMPRESSIVE!
[adrotate group=”1″]Battery Recharging Performance
The HUAWEI Mate 20 comes with a 22.5 watt HUAWEI SuperCharge power adaptor. Let’s see how fast it recharges the 4,000 mAh battery.
It took the HUAWEI Mate 20 (US | UK | MY) just over 118 minutes (1 hour 58 minutes) to recharge its battery from 20% to 100%. Not particularly good performance, considering it’s using a high-powered 22.5 watt charger.
The Samsung Galaxy Note9, in comparison, took under 107 minutes (1 hour 47 minutes) to recharge its 4,000 mAh battery with a less powerful 15 watt charger. The Note9 is thus 9% faster and 14% more efficient than the Mate 20 in this aspect.
This slower battery recharging speed gives the HUAWEI Mate 20 (US | UK | MY) a battery life : recharging ratio of 6.3 : 1 – a good ratio. A rule of thumb – for one hour of battery life, charge it for 9.5 minutes.
The fastest recharging happened up to the 90% level. This took just under 84 minutes. Then the recharging speed slowed down, and it took a further 35.5 minutes to top up the remaining 10%.
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