Page 6 : Overall & Gaming Performance, Our Verdict & Award

Overall Performance – AnTuTu Benchmark

AnTuTu is a nice benchmark for testing various performance aspects of Android devices.

	honor 8	ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra	HTC 10	Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
TOTAL SCORE	90737	76096	113813	131246
3D SCORE	17706	18816	50700	40824
– 3D (Marooned)	9829	10861	34778	23336
– 3D (Garden)	7877	7952	15922	17488
UX SCORE	34550	26794	30890	42765
– UX Data Secure	7338	5077	6319	8169
– UX Data Process	5513	4198	3379	5966
– UX Strategy Games	9745	7503	5433	10745
– UX Image Process	5017	6879	9521	13878
– UX I/O Performance	6937	3137	6238	4007
CPU SCORE	32255	23689	21915	37882
– CPU Mathematics	10483	6950	8494	11831
– CPU Common Use	8543	6311	5931	10875
– CPU Multi-Core	13229	10428	7490	15176
RAM	6226	6797	10308	9775

The honor 8 did well in AnTuTu, coming in only 20% and 31% slower than the HTC 10 and the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge respectively.

It was actually 12% and 47% faster than the HTC 10 in the UX and CPU tests, but its 65% slower 3D performance pulled down its overall results.

 

Gaming Performance – 3DMark

We tested the honor 8‘s gaming performance using 3DMark, using the Ice Storm Unlimited test.

	honor 8	ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra	HTC 10	Samsung Galaxy S7 edge
Gaming Score	18659	17719	23171	28650
Graphics	19993	21124	27512	33685
Physics	15127	11328	14925	18810
Graphics Test 1	122.5 fps	115.2 fps	136.6 fps	162.9 fps
Graphics Test 2	67.4 fps	76.3 fps	106.4 fps	133.1 fps
Physics Test	48.0 fps	36.0 fps	47.4 fps	59.7 fps

The honor 8 is roughly equal to the ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra in gaming performance. This means the ARM Mali-T880 GPU in the Kirin 950 is about as fast as the Qualcomm Adreno 510 GPU.

 

Our Verdict

The honor 8 is more than just a more powerful version of the honor 5C smartphone. Yes, they are both 5.2″ smartphones powered by Kirin processors from HiSilicon, a Huawei company. But the honor 8 is really a whole different beast targeting a different market.

The honor 8 is very fast, and comes with 4 GB of RAM and up to 64 GB of internal flash storage. On top of that, its dual-lens camera produces excellent photographs and videos. It even comes with a new 3D fingerprint sensor that activates the phone in just 0.4 seconds.

The honor 8 also looks the part of a premium smartphone, thanks to its Aurora Glass finish. This is honor’s top-of-the-line smartphone for those who want nothing but the best without paying through the nose.

Now, all that extra capability comes at a price, and it comes to no surprise that the honor 8 costs twice as much as the honor 5C. Even so, it costs less than half of what their competitors charge for equivalent smartphones.

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So are we impressed with the honor 8? Hell, yeah!

If we have any gripes, it is the lack of USB OTG support and the requirement to use the Huawei HiSuite to manage files using a computer. This unnecessarily makes it a pain to access the files in the honor 8 smartphone.

honor continues to impress us with their ability to focus on creating no-nonsense Android smartphones with practical features. Even the dual-lens camera proved to be a practical way to improve the quality of photos and videos taken using a smartphone.

We like the honor 8 enough to give it out coveted Editor’s Choice Award. Congratulations, honor!

 

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