Chinese benchmarking outfit Master Lu has released its market data report for the first quarter of 2019. The report details the best performing smartphones in China for the quarter. The report also shows how the top smartphones square up against each other in various aspects such as display resolution, processor, RAM, camera setup etc.
Xiaomi’s Black Shark 2 gaming phone is ranked as the best performing phone based on the parameters used for the assessment. The phone has an average benchmark score of 404, 809 points and is closely followed by the Galaxy S10+. The Vivo iQOO gaming phone, another Snapdragon 855-powered beast. Xiaomi Mi 9 ranks as the fourth best while the Nubia Red Magic Mars gaming phone sits at the number 5 spot with an average score that almost equal that of the Mi 9.
For the aspect of AI chip ranking, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset with a run score of 44,367 points, beat Apple A12 chipset (40822 points) to emerge as the best AI chipset. Surprisingly, Huawei’s Hisilicon Kirin 980 chip that has been severally promoted for its AI capabilities is ranked third with just 19003 points. The rest of the list is dominated by Qualcomm’s flagship/mid-range chipsets such as the Snapdragon 845, SD670, SD 660AIE etc.
In the mobile phone fluency rankings, the Red Magic Mars esports mobile phone comes in at the topmost spot with a score of 156.71 points. This is followed by Mate X with 152.58 points.
In terms of market shares, Huawei, Honor and Samsung clinched the top 3 spots in that order. OPPO comes at number four spot with a market share of 8.72% while Xiaomi completes the top 5 with a share of 8.47%. Vivo made it to the number six position in Q1 but we expect that to change in the current quarter considering the new models that have joined Vivo’s lineup. 
The holistic report also looked at the network signal strength of the models and Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 was ranked as the best.
Finally, the ranking also seems to look at the models that have gotten cloned the most and the iPhone 8 ranked at the top. The Galaxy W2018 clamshell phone is next, followed by the iPhone XS Max. Others include the iPhone XS, Galaxy W2017, Galaxy S10+, S8+ among others.
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