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GSMArena team, 18 June 2013

Gentle giant


Huawei Ascend Mate review: Gentle giant

  • Comments (34)
  • User reviews
  • Ascend Mate

5. Google Now, Benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree spin, design and handling, controls
  3. 3. Display
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, Benchmarks
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, input methods
  7. 7. Multimedia - gallery, music and video players, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera, image quality, video recording and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browser
  10. 10. Organizer and apps
  11. 11. Navigation, Play Store
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Huawei Ascend Mate specification
  15. User opinions and reviews
  16. Review comments (34)

Huawei Android

Google Now

Google Now gives you a short overview of information it believes is relevant to you right now. It can interpret a lot of things from your search history as well. If you've been searching for, let's say, your favorite football team, Google Now will prepare a card showing you the next match the team is playing and will provide you score updates once the game begins.

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Google Now

Voice Actions can handle stuff like sending messages (SMS or email), initiating a voice call, asking for directions, taking a note or opening a site. Google Now can also launch apps, check and manage your calendar and look for nearby places of interest and stuff like movie openings in theaters.

Google Now on the Huawei Ascend Mate gets activated with an upward-swipe from the virtual navigation bar. Unfortunately this gesture works everywhere but the homescreen. That's right - you need to have an app opened to launch Google Now.

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Running Google Now

You can either type or talk to it and the app will give you one of its info cards (if available) and read you its contents aloud (you can disable this in the app settings). If there's no card to help with the answer to your question Google Now will simply initiate a Google web search instead.

Synthetic benchmarks

The Ascend Mate is powered by Huawei's own K3V2 chipset. There are four 1.5GHz Cortex A9 cores, a 16-core GPU and 2GB of RAM. The Cortex A9 processor is already dated piece of tech, but it's still quite capable of keeping Android running smoothly on a 720p screen. The Samsung Galaxy SIII, for instance, uses a similar processor and it still gets the job done.

Starting off with BenchmarkPi and Linpack, the Ascend Mate posted pretty good scores, on par with the Galaxy S III. Of course, it wasn't able to match the more recent flagships in our database.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    132
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    132
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    147
  • HTC One
    151
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    169
  • Sony Xperia Z
    264
  • HTC Butterfly
    266
  • Oppo Find 5
    267
  • HTC One X+
    280
  • LG Optimus G
    285
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    305
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    330
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    347
  • LG Optimus 4X HD
    350
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    359
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    362
  • Nexus 4
    431

Linpack

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    791
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    788
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    743
  • HTC One
    646
  • Sony Xperia Z
    630
  • HTC Butterfly
    624
  • LG Optimus G
    608
  • Oppo Find 5
    593
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    400
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    214.3
  • Nexus 4
    213.5
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    189.1
  • HTC One X+
    177.7
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    175.5
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    161
  • HTC One X
    160.9
  • LG Optimus 4X HD
    141.5

When it comes to the multiple-core perfromance, the Huawei Ascend Mate behaved similarly to its quad-core Cortex-A9 powered rivals.

Geekbench 2

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    3324
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    3227
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    3040
  • HTC One
    2708
  • Sony Xperia Z
    2173
  • HTC Butterfly
    2143
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    1894
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1845
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    1725
  • LG Optimus G
    1723
  • LG Optimus 4X HD
    1661
  • iPhone 5
    1601

AnTuTu

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    26275
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    24716
  • HTC One
    22678
  • Sony Xperia Z
    20794
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    20056
  • HTC Butterfly
    19513
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    15714
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    15547
  • Oppo Find 5
    15167
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    13621

Quadrant

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    12446
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    12376
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    12105
  • HTC One
    11746
  • Sony Xperia Z
    8075
  • HTC One X+
    7632
  • LG Optimus G
    7439
  • Oppo Find 5
    7111
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    7059
  • HTC One X
    5952
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    5916
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    5509
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    5450
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    5170
  • Nexus 4
    4567

We've added some GPU benchmarks for good measure to test out the undisclosed 16-core graphics chip inside the Ascend Mate. The Mate didn't do too well here.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    43
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    41
  • HTC One
    37
  • Oppo Find 5
    32
  • Google Nexus 4
    32
  • Sony Xperia Z
    31
  • Sony Xperia ZL
    31
  • Sony Xperia SP
    31
  • Apple iPhone 5
    30
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    30
  • LG Optimus G
    21
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    17
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    17
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    15
  • HTC One X
    11

Epic Citadel

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    59.8
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    57.1
  • HTC One
    56.4
  • Sony Xperia Z
    55.6
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    55.5
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    54.2
  • Nexus 4
    53.9
  • Asus Padfone 2
    53.4
  • LG Optimus G
    52.6
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    41.3
  • Oppo Find 5
    38.6
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    33.2

SunSpider is based on JavaScript performance and the two browsers available on the Ascend Mate (the stock one and Chrome) scored similar results.

SunSpider

Lower is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    804
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    810
  • Samsung Ativ S
    891
  • Apple iPhone 5
    915
  • Nokia Lumia 920
    910
  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    972
  • HTC One X+
    1001
  • LG Optimus G Pro
    1011
  • Motorola RAZR i XT890
    1059
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    1065
  • HTC One
    1124
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1192
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    1312
  • Sony Xperia Z
    1336
  • LG Optimus G
    1353
  • HTC Butterfly
    1433
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    1741
  • Nexus 4
    1971
  • Oppo Find 5
    2045

Vellamo focuses on JavaScript and HTML 5 and is where the Ascend Mate did quite well to match the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Oppo Find 5.

Vellamo

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy Note II
    2418
  • HTC One
    2382
  • Sony Xperia Z
    2189
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    2078
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (S600)
    2060
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Octa)
    2056
  • Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3
    1887
  • HTC Butterfly
    1866
  • Oppo Find 5
    1658
  • Huawei Ascend Mate
    1646
  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    1641
  • LG Optimus 4X HD
    1568
  • LG Optimus G
    1522
  • Meizu MX 4-core
    1468
  • Nexus 4
    1310

The Huawei Ascend Mate did about as expected in our benchmark tests. We can safely say it's more or less on par with some of the 2012 flagships.

The real life experience though raised no questions about the performance. The Ascend Mate behaves nicely and feels quite responsive.

Next Page » 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, input methods
5. Google Now, Benchmarks
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree spin, design and handling, controls
  3. 3. Display
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Google Now, Benchmarks
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, input methods
  7. 7. Multimedia - gallery, music and video players, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera, image quality, video recording and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browser
  10. 10. Organizer and apps
  11. 11. Navigation, Play Store
  12. 12. Conclusion
  13.  
  14. Huawei Ascend Mate specification
  15. User opinions and reviews
  16. Review comments (34)

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  • User reviews
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