Best Performing Android Devices in November: Huawei Took Double Champion Places
The Global Android
Phone Performance Ranking List in November has changed dramatically and phone
SoC technology has officially welcomed its era of 5nm. Although new flagship
products, i.e., 5nm SoC of Huawei Hisilicon and Qualcomm Snapdragon have been
released, the former was on the market first. So the performance of Huawei Mate
40 Pro powered by the Kirin 9000 chip using 5nm technology surpassed ROG Phone3
which had ranked first on the list for several months in a row. Let’s take a look at the
ranking.
The data was
collected from November 1, 2020 to November 30, 2020 and the results on the
Ranking List are average scores instead of highest ones. There are more than
1,000 pieces of data on single phone model. The data was calculated based on
Antutu V8. If several memory capacity versions of any single phone model are
available on the List, the version of highest memory capacity shall prevail.
1. Flagship Phones
No. 1: HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro
Average score:
661,059
Huawei Mate40 Pro is equipped with Huawei’s latest
and possibly the last generation of flagship SoC Kirin 9000. Kirin 9000 is manufactured by TSMC using 5nm
technology and integrates as many as 15.3 billion transistors, 30% more than
Apple A14. On the release day of this SoC, it was the
industry’s first 5nm SoC integrated with 5G, and it is also the current SoC
with the most transistors.
The eight-core CPU
consists of one 3.13GHz A77+3, three 2.54GHz A77 and four 2.04GHz A55, with its
frequency edging out the 3.1GHz of Snapdragon 865 Plus.
The launch of
Snapdragon 888 on December 1 officially made it a rival to Kirin 9000. However,
the flagship models equipped with Snapdragon 888 may not be available until
early January at the soonest, so Huawei Mate40 Pro is expected to sustain the
first place for two months.
No. 2: ROG Phone 3
Average score:
632,274
As the first Snapdragon 865 Plus phone model, ROG’s
game phones have historically held the first place on Android Phone Performance
Ranking List for a couple of months, but this time it meets changes of racing
track. The 7nm technology
is fundamentally different from the 5nm Kirin 9000, so it’s a matter of course
to be surpassed.
But anyway, ROG
Phone3’s optimization and
improvement in game performance are still unmatched by other mobile phones.
No. 3: OPPO Find X2
Pro
Average score:
615,410
Now that the first
place has changed, the original ranking has to be pushed back one place, so
OPPO Find X2 ranking the second place last month come in the third place in
November.
It is equipped with
Snapdragon 865 SoC and it should be restated that OPPO Find X2 launched in
March this year has been hovering in the top three places on Global Android
Phone Performance Ranking List for nine months. It is also expected to be seen
on the List next month, which is not easy for rapidly-evolving Android phones,
but most importantly it still looks excellent enough to be worth buying.
Following them, the
seven phone models are respectively iQOO Neo3 (average score: 606,347), Samsung
Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G (average score: 603,352), Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G
(average score: 596,482), OnePlus 8 Pro (average score: 592,729), Mi 10T Pro 5G
(average score: 585,996), OnePlus 8 (average score: 585,105), and Black Shark 3
(average score: 575,808).
In addition that
Huawei Mate40 Pro grabbed the first place, there is a newcomer on the Ranking
List, namely, Black Shark 3, which, as a game phone, finally made it onto the
Performance Ranking List.
Since no new mid-range SoC model was released in November, there is no change in the ranking of mid-range phones from last month. The brand new mid-range SoC will not be updated until the first quarter of next year, so users who want to buy a mid-range phone have to wait a little longer.
No. 1: HONOR 30
Average score:
405,289
Among mid-range
phones, HONOR 30 ranks the first in November as it did last month. It is
equipped with the Kirin 985 processor independently developed by Huawei, second
only to the previous generation of the flagship Kirin 990 in terms of
performance, which is a reduced frequency version, so it is appropriate to be
used as a mid-range model. Counting Huawei Mate40 Pro that carries Kirin 9000
SoC and ranks the first among flagship phones, Huawei took the double champion
places of Overseas Android Phone Performance Ranking List in November.
Congratulations to Huawei.
No. 2: HUAWEI nova 7
Average score:
400,491
HUAWEI nova 7 ranks
the second in November as it did in last month. It uses the same chip as HONOR
30 that topped the List, that is, Kirin 985. With very similar appearance
design, the biggest difference is their camera. HONOR 30 supports 5x optical
zoom and HUAWEI nova 7 supports 3x optical zoom. Other than that, they are
pretty much the same thing, so you can see that their final score is pretty
much the same.
No. 3: Redmi K30 5G
Average score:
326,679
Redmi K30 5 G ranks the third in November as it did last month. As a phone launched earlier this year, it is pretty good for it to have such performance at the end of the year. Although it’s been 10 months since its launch, if Qualcomm fails to update its new mid-range SoC, Redmi K30 5G is still expected to be made onto the Ranking List every month.
Following them, the
seven phone models are respectively Mi 10 Lite 5G (average score: 323,257),
HUAWEI nova 7i (average score: 315,594), realme 7 (average score: 297,878),
Redmi Note 8 Pro (average score: 292,543), realme 6 (average score: 291,026),
realme 7Pro (average score: 287,413), and Poco X3 NFC (average score: 286,044).
Compared with
instant change of flagship model ranking first, the ranking of mid-range phones
is a little mundane, with the same ten mobile phones in the same ranking order
as that in last month, only a little change on their scores. It’s a normal situation,
after all, the performance of flagship phones can more mirror the strength of a
company in the R&D and improvement.
That’s all for the Ranking List in November 2020. Congratulations again to Huawei for winning
the first place in both the flagship and mid-range phone rankings. We also hope
Huawei can sustain this position for a long time.