Graphics, Throttling and Storage Performance

Equally I discussed in my review of the Huawei Mate ix, the Kirin 960 contains a fast GPU that can concur its ain against some of today's most powerful SoCs at times. Information technology'southward more than twice as fast than the GPU in the P9 in our benchmarks, and around 15 percent faster than the Snapdragon 821. It does fall behind the Snapdragon 835's GPU past 25 percent, and it also falls behind the Exynos 8895 by 13 per centum on average.

If you lot love SoCs throttling, y'all'll beloved the Huawei P10 and the Kirin 960. The P10 throttles the most of any smartphone I've tested so far, dropping its performance by a whopping 49 pct afterwards 25 minutes of GFXBench'south Manhattan 3.1 test. Most SoCs, including the Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895, do throttle by over xl percent, just the Kirin 960 struggles the nearly to maintain its tiptop functioning.

The end result is that the Snapdragon 835 is more 40 percent faster than the Kriin 960 under sustained workloads, a margin that would have been smaller had the Kirin 960 not throttled as heavily.

The Huawei P10 is a contentious device as far as storage performance is concerned, as there have been reports that some handsets come with a range of storage configurations. Some P10s come with ultra-fast UFS two.ane NAND, while others utilize slower UFS ii.0 or eMMC 5.ane storage. It appears that our review unit, as supplied past Huawei, has the fastest UFS 2.1 storage, and then the in a higher place results may non reflect the feel that anybody will receive.

However if y'all do get a UFS 2.1 unit of measurement, the storage performance is fantabulous, beating almost top-end smartphones in our performance charts.