Huawei‘s latest flagship smartphone, the Pura 70 Ultra with all-new Kirin 9010 SoC underwent thorough testing by reviewers at a Chinese publication. shedding light on the performance of its new chipset. The benchmarks reveal the Kirin 9010 is more of an incremental upgrade than a huge leap forward.
This isn’t entirely surprising considering the Kirin 9010 seems to be a polished version of the Kirin 9000S found in the Mate 60 series. It features a single 2.3GHz Taishan core, three 2.18GHz Taishan mid-cores, and four lower-clocked 1.55GHz Cortex-A510 cores, designed to handle less intensive tasks.
The core architecture is essentially similar to the Kirin 9000S of the Mate 60. The notable difference lies in Huawei’s adjustments to the clock speeds of the cores. Meanwhile, the graphics processing unit remains unchanged, sporting the same Mali-G78 GPU clocked at 750MHz.
Benchmarks
Starting with synthetic benchmarks, the AnTuTu score for the Pura 70 Ultra landed at 940,000 points. Whereas, in the GeekBench 6.2, the single-core scores reached 1,431 points, with multi-core scores reaching 4,430 points in a room temperature environment.
Enabling the phone’s performance mode resulted in minimal gains, pushing single-core scores to 1,440 and multi-core scores to 4,436. On paper, these scores are clearly better when compared to the Kirin 9000S.
| Processor | Geekbench Single-Core | Geekbench Multi-Core | AnTuTu Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirin 9010 | 1440 | 4436 | 940,000 |
| Kirin 9000s | 1350 | 4200 | 700,000 |
Huawei has managed to achieve this even while lowering the clock speed of Kirin 9010’s high-performance core.
However, the GPU appears to be a sticking point, according to the report. 3DMark Wild Life EXTREME testing yielded scores of 1575 points at room temperature and 1577 points in cooling mode. It’s a limited improvement in graphical processing power.
Games
But the real-world testing shows that the phone can run popular games like Genshin Impact fairly well.
Running the game at the highest settings with 60fps locked and frame rate boosting features disabled, the Pura 70 Ultra managed an average frame rate of 60.2fps in a room-temperature environment.
The frame rate remained fairly stable at around 60fps for the first 10 minutes before dropping to a steady 55.7fps average over the remaining 15 minutes. The phone’s back cover reached a maximum temperature of 46.8 degrees Celsius during this test.
Another graphically demanding title, Honkai: Star Rail, pushed the Pura 70 Ultra further. Set to very high settings with 60fps locked, the phone averaged 53 frames per second over a 15-minute run.
While the frame rate dipped to around 50fps after the initial 4 minutes, it remained stable throughout the rest of the test. The back cover temperature climbed to a maximum of 49.6 degrees Celsius here.
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Via: gizmochina.com
