Huawei Honor 9 benchmarked, shows flagship-level performance

The Huawei Honor 9 was just unveiled and thanks to Geekbench, we’re getting our first glimpse at the performance of the Kirin 960 chipset at its heart.

This is a CPU test so we’re focusing on the octa-core processor of the new premium mid-ranger. It has four Cortex-A73 cores (running at 2.4GHz) and four A53 cores (clocked at 1.8GHz), which were built on TSMC’s 16nm FFC process. Also note that the Honor 9 features 6GB of RAM, something even most flagships on the list below don’t have.

GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Xiaomi Mi 6
  6719
• Galaxy S8 (Exynos 8895)
  6656
• Honor 9 (Kirin 960)
  6519
• HTC U11 (S835)
  6393
• Xperia XZ Premium (S835)
  5460
• LG G6 (S821)
  4175

GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Galaxy S8 (Exynos 8895)
  1991
• Xiaomi Mi 6
  1929
• HTC U11 (S835)
  1919
• Honor 9 (Kirin 960)
  1865
• Xperia XZ Premium (S835)
  1836
• LG G6 (S821)
  1767

Keep in mind this is a €360 phone (in China at least, taxes will push that the worldwide price up). And that’s stellar performance for the price, Huawei’s Honor brand has a real fighter on its hands.

Source | Via (in Dutch)