Hardware Overview and System Performance

The hardware in the Huawei P10 pulls no surprises. Huawei has upgraded the handset to their latest Kirin silicon, which nosotros first saw in the Mate ix. With the Kirin 960 inside, we'll come across a decent performance upgrade over the Kirin 955 in the P9, thanks to the upgraded CPU and much faster GPU.

On the CPU front we're still seeing an octa-core pattern split up into two quad-core clusters, though the high-performance cluster is now ARM Cortex-A73 cores clocked up to 2.4 GHz, with Cortex-A53s at 1.8 GHz for the other cluster. The GPU is a Mali-G71 MP8 clocked up to 1037 MHz, providing roughly twice the performance equally last year's GPU on paper. There'southward also an LPDDR4 memory controller with an improved 29.8 GB/s of bandwidth.

For other hardware we're looking at either 64 GB of internal storage with 4GB of RAM. At that place's also Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/one thousand/north/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 and LTE Category 12/11 downstream/upstream. The P9 packed just Category six LTE, so the upgrade to Cat.12 is significant for cellular network speeds where supported. NFC is also included.

As expected, the Huawei P10 performs essentially identically to the Huawei Mate 9, as both phones pack very similar hardware. It's good to run into the Kirin 960 performing every bit expected here.

Anyone moving from a P9 to a P10 volition see an eighteen pct CPU performance improvement on average, which is adequately decent, although the P9 already had a strong CPU relative to the competition of last year. The P10 is also 15 percent faster than the Snapdragon 821-powered LG G6 in CPU-express workloads, though it can't match the Snapdragon 835, falling ten percent backside. The Kirin 960 did, nevertheless, outperform the Exynos 8895 by a good 10 percent hither.