Global Top 10 Best Performing Android Phones, September 2020
In October 2020, the second half of Android
phone configuration competition has officially started. This month Apple has
officially launched its first 5G phones with a more powerful A14 chip. More
interestingly, Qualcomm officially announced this week that it would hold the
annual technical summit in December and launch the new-generation flagship SoC
Snapdragon 875 thereon. The phone performance competition seems not to end
forever.
Let's see what changes happened to the Android phone performance ranking list in September.
This time, the data was collected for a
period from September 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020; the results in the ranking
list are average scores instead of the highest scores; and there are more than
1,000 pieces of information on single phone model. The data was calculated
based on Antutu V8. If any single phone model has several memory capacity versions,
then its version of the highest memory capacity shall prevail.
1. Flagship Phones
In this performance ranking list, Asus' ROG Phone 3 still stands at the first place with an average score of 642,671 in September. As usual, it is the first phone model to ship with flagship Snapdragon SoC "+" this year. Historically, Asus gaming phones have always stood at the first place in the performance ranking for consecutive months since their respective launch.
This Asus ROG Phone 3 is equipped with a
6.59-inch AMOLED display screen which supports the 144Hz refresh rate, the
275Hz touch response, and HDR 10+ and achieves a response time of 1ms and a
resolution ratio of 2340×1080. There is a transparent area on the back of this phone,
so we can see its internal cooling fin. The cooling fin of ROG Phone 3 is 7
times bigger than that of the last generation and covers the main cooling
parts, achieving a more efficient cooling capacity.
Most interestingly, this phone is also
equipped with one 6,000mAh battery and two Type-C interfaces. You can hold this
phone in whatever direction and use it while charging it, which is a unique
highlight of the gaming phone.
The product ranking second is Mi 10 Ultra,
the latest flagship phone of Xiaomi with a Snapdragon 865 processor. Its
comprehensive score is 640,296, just more than 2,000 points lower the Asus ROG
Phone 3 which ranks No. 1. Obviously, what is the most crucial is not the
processor performance, but the degree of optimization by the manufacturer.
This phone performs very well with many new
technologies exclusively developed by Xiaomi (e.g.: Write Turb and HDB software
supports), so such a result is not surprising.
Besides, it should be noted that MIUI 12
embedded in Mi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition has a function named GameTurbo
4.0, by which users can control the GPU frequency of a single game and choose
the degree of SoC performance for this game manually. For users who like
playing games and pursue high performance, such a function is the icing on the
cake. We hope that more mobile phones will have similar functions in the
future.
The popular OPPO Find X2 Pro stands at the
third place with an average score of 610,961 in September, much lower than
those of the products ranking first and second. It is also the last phone with
a score of over 600,000 in the ranking list. Since its launch in this March, it
has been completely ranking at the top in terms of configuration and
performance, with an up-to-date advanced screen. It can be seen that OPPO Find
X2 Pro is very powerful.
Following them, the seven phone models are
respectively OnePlus 8 Pro (average score: 598,891), iQOO Neo3 (average score:
595,329), Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (average score: 594,890), Galaxy Z Fold2 5G
(average score: 593,546), Redmi K30 Pro (average score: 591,941), Mi 10 Pro
(average score: 582,055), and OnePlus 8 (average score: 576,562).
2. Mid-range Phones
Compared with the only processor - Snapdragon 865 Series in the flagship phone ranking, there are various processors in the mid-range phone ranking, including phone models of Qualcomm as well as MediaTek and Hisilicon Kirin.
In the mid-range phone ranking, iQOO Z1
ranks No. 1 with an average score of 514,902. It is the first phone to ship
with MediaTek Tianji 1000+ processor. The phone model ranking second is Redmi
K30 Ultra with the same processor, and its average score is 481,003.
What's very interesting is that MediaTek Dimensity
1000+ is positioned as a flagship 5G SoC of MediaTek but used in mid-range phones
by terminal manufacturers due to some long-term problems concerning brand and
manufacturer. Therefore, this phone has just been included in the mid-range
phone ranking list, despite its flagship SoC. The score of iQOO Z1 that ranks
No. 1 in this list is also much lower than the lowest score among those of
phones with Snapdragon 865. Therefore, MediaTek needs to make more efforts to
develop the flagship SoC.
Honour 30 stands at the third place in this
ranking. Its Kirin 985 SoC, a processor independently developed by Huawei, is
second only to Kirin 990 5G presently, but its performance has been further
improved when compared with the performance of Kirin 820.
And it's said that Kirin 985 and Kirin 820
are the same chip in nature, but the latter has two GPU cores shielded and
Kirin 985 is completely open. That's exactly toothpaste squeezing.
Following them, the seven phone models are
respectively Huawei nova 7 (average score: 398,328), Mi 10 Lite 5G (average
score: 322,997), Redmi K30 5G (average score: 316,343), HUAWEI nova 7i (average
score: 310,976), realme 7 (average score: 298,717), Redmi Note 8 Pro (average
score: 292,126), and realme 6 (average score: 290,687).
October is the second half of the launch
season for Android phones every year. Huawei Mate40 and OnePlus 8T both will be
launched in this month, after which this ranking list will change again. The
most striking is certainly what result will Huawei Kirin 9000 processor
achieve. It is of great significance as the last-generation self-developed
processor of Huawei.
5nm will be a keyword for the next
generation of processors which will achieve further better performance and
lower power consumption. The foreseeable and more powerful terminal devices are
drawing near.