The real-life images of the upcoming Honor X10 5G smartphone appeared in the previous week. The images had revealed the rear appearance of the blue, orange, and black. A fresh hands-on video of the white and blue variants of the Honor X10 5G has appeared on Weibo. Also, a Chinese tipster has shared a new live shot of the orange variant of the smartphone to reveal its front and rear appearance.

The Honor X10 5G white and blue variants that can be seen in the leaked hands-on video have gradient appeal. The handset is a mid-range phone and it is rumored to debut as the most affordable 5G phone from the company. The budget-friendly phone seems to feature a glass back with a premium finish.

Shown below is a leaked shot of the Honor X10’s orange model. The image gives a good look at the front panel of the phone. The handset features a tall aspect ratio supporting notch-less display that promises a high screen-to-body ratio.

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Honor X10 5G specifications

As it is known, the Honor X10 has a Full HD+ 6.63-inch IPS LCD display with 90Hz refresh rate support. It has a pop-up selfie snapper of 16-megapixel. A side-mounted fingerprint reader can be seen on the right edge of the device.

The rear side of the phone has a 40-megapixel + 8-megapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera setup. The primary lens is a Sony IMX600y RYYB image sensor that makes it possible to capture amazing shots in dim-light conditions.

The Honor X10 is backed by a 4,300mAh battery that supports 22.5W fast charging. It is fueled by Kirin 820 5G chipset and up to 8 GB of RAM. The phone is expected to come with up to 256 GB of storage.

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AnTuTu today released its top 10 charts for flagship models and at the same time, the ranking for mid-range models was also released. The ranking shows MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000L still continues to dominate this segment despite the release of a couple of new mid-range chipsets like the Kirin 820, Kirin 985 and others.

In terms of the mid-range list, with the release of multiple new machines equipped with mid-range SoCs, this month’s rankings have also changed, but they still haven’t challenged the number one OPPO Reno 3.

The OPPO Reno3 5G with a Dimensity 1000L chipset manages an average score of 405,159 points to occupy the top spot. The Kirin 820-powered Honor 30S burst into the scene to occupy the second spot, edging out the Exynos 980-powered Vivo X30 5G. The third position is occupied by another new entrant – Vivo S6 5G equipped with an Exynos 980 SoC.

The Redmi K30 5G with a Snapdragon 765G chipset is at the fourth spot while the Vivo X30 is now ranked at number 5. The sixth to tenth spots are occupied by Vivo Z6 (Snapdragon 765G), OPPO Reno 3 Pro (Snapdragon 765G), Honor 9X Pro (Kirin 810), Huawei Nova 6 SE (Kirin 810) and Honor Play 4T Pro (Kirin 810).

One important thing to note from the ranking is the gradual dominance of 5G smartphones. Apart from the bottom three Huawei models powered by the 4G Kirin 810 chipset, all other phones that make up the top 10 are 5G-enabled. This means in the next few months, we won’t only be having several flagship 5G phones but also 5G mid-rangers.

As an afterthought, I’m wondering why OEMs are still shunning the Dimensity 1000L despite its superb benchmark perform. Perhaps, benchmarks don’t sell phones, right?

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At the end of March, Honor unveiled the Honor 30S as the first Kirin 820 5G chipset powered device. The presence of the new chipset brings dual-mode 5G capabilities in upper mid-range price segment. Today, the Chinese firm conducted the first sales of the Honor 30S in China. The smartphone has received stupendous response from the audience as the company confirmed that its sales revenue exceeded 100 million Yuan mark in just 1 second.

The Honor 30S landed in China in two models. The 8 GB RAM + 128 GB storage edition of the smartphone costs 2,399 Yuan (~$338). The 8 GB RAM + 256 GB storage version of the Honor 30S is available in China for 2,699 Yuan (~$381) Since the company has revealed that the first sales of the Honor 30S cross 100 million Yuan mark, it can be estimated that it may have sold around 37,000 to 41,000 units in a second. The handset comes in three color editions like black, blue, green and white.

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Honor 30S specifications

The Honor 30S smartphone offers users with a 6.5-inch IPS LCD display. The 1080 x 2400 pixels full HD+ resolution supporting screen delivers an aspect ratio of 20:9. The handset is fitted with a side-mounted fingerprint reader.

The Kirin 820 5G is assisted by LPDDR4x RAM on the Honor 30S. It is equipped with UFS 2.1 storage. There is a shared SIM slot on the device that supports a nanoSD card. The Android 10 OS with EMUI 10 UI comes preloaded on the Honor 30S.

The Honor 30S is backed by a 4,000mAh battery that supports 40W rapid charging. It has a front-facing camera of 16-megapixel. The rear shell of the device has a rectangular camera housing that has a primary lens of 64-megapixel, a telephoto lens of 8-megapixel, an ultrawide shooter of 8-megapixel, a depth assist lens of 2-megapixel and an LED flash unit.

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The Kirin 820 5G is the latest 5G mid-range processor. Announced last week and appearing first in the spanking new Honor 30S, this chipset is one of Huawei’s most powerful processor. For this edition of Chip Battle, we want to see how it measures up to another mid-range 5G chipset – the Snapdragon 765G.

CPU

The Kirin 820 5G is a 7nm chipset with a prime core (Cortex-A76) clocked at 2.36GHz and three performance cores (Cortex-A76) at 2.22GHz and four efficiency cores clocked at 1.84GHz.

For the Snapdragon 765G, we have a 7nm octa-core chipset too with a Kryo 475 Prime core (Cortex-A76) clocked at 2.4GHz, a Kryo 475 Gold core (Cortex-A76) clocked at 2.2GHz and six Kryo 475 Silver cores (Cortex-A55) clocked at 1.8GHz.

Just looking at the cores, one can see the Kirin 820 5G is the more powerful processor as it has four Cortex-A76 cores whereas the Snapdragon 765G has just two. However, for more practical evidence, below are benchmark results from Geekbench.

As you can see, the Kirin 820 5G has significantly higher scores compared to the Snapdragon 765G (Redmi K30 5G).

Scores from AnTuTu are no different either as the Kirin 820 5G scored 130,080 points while the Snapdragon 765G scored 104,223 points.

GPU

The GPU of the Kirin 820 5G is a Mali-G57 with six cores while that of the Snapdragon 765G is the Adreno 620. According to the AnTuTu benchmark result above, the Mali-G57 is a more powerful GPU as it scored 116,516 points in the benchmark result as against the Adreno 620 which scored 92,536 points.

In another AnTuTu test, the Kirin 820 5G scored 119,839 points (GPU) which is higher than the 93,977 points scored by the Snapdragon 765G-powered OPPO Reno3 Pro.

In the above benchmark result, the Honor 30S (Kirin 820 5G) doesn’t just floor the OPPO Reno3 Pro 5G (Snapdragon 765G) in CPU and GPU performance but also outshines it in the other areas too. Yes, we know the AnTuTu version numbers are not the same but even if they were, the Kirin 820 5G will still come out on top.

Others

In terms of connectivity, both processors support SA and NSA 5G networks. There is Bluetooth 5.0 on the Snapdragon 765G while the Kirin 820 5G has Bluetooth 5.1. With respect to GPS, the Kirin 820 5G doesn’t support NavIC, unlike the Snapdragon 765G which does.

Conclusion

The Kirin 820 5G is definitely one of the most powerful processors Huawei has ever made and no Qualcomm mid-range chipset can hold its own against it. However, we won’t be surprised if Qualcomm announces a new mid-range chipset later this year that surpasses the Kirin 820 5G. The San Diego-based semiconductor company is known for churning out new SoCs pretty frequently and it most likely already has one on the horizon.

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Honor had held a press conference on the evening of 31st March 2020. While the focus of the conference was the Honor 30S, the President of Honor, Zhao Ming (or George Zhao) also accepted an interview after the event.

In the interview, the senior executive from the Huawei subsidiary answered various questions regarding the new products and the company’s current direction and plans for the year 2020. One such question was regarding the new proprietary chipset the Kirin 820 5G SoC, which is housed in the Honor 30S. The chipset is notable because it is a great balance between powerful performance and pricing, according to the President.

The Kirin 820 SoC utilizes much of the same architecture as the company’s current flagship processor, the Kirin 990. It is built on a similar 7nm process technology and features a built in 5G modem, which is impressive considering it will be found in a smartphone priced between 2000 to 2500 Yuan (roughly 281 to 352 US Dollars). So, it can be assumed that it fills in the gap between high end and mid range smartphones.

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In regards to one of its primary rivals, Qualcomm, George Zhao stated that Kirin 820 is a mid to high end SoC with an integrated 5G modem. This is different from Qualcomm’s current flagship the Snapdragon 865 SoC which features a discrete 5G modem. In simpler terms, the latter is capable of noticeably better performance, but the key difference here is pricing as the Qualcomm chipset is primarily found in premium grade flagships which are generally expensive.

Thus, in this regard, Qualcomm has no immediate and direct competitor to the Kirin 820 SoC, since the Snapdragon 865 is a flagship processor while the SD700G series have yet to catch up. During the interview, George Zhao also placed an emphasis on competition, stating that rivalry and innovation is what drives the industry forward in advancement.

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At the Honor 30S launch event, the brand also officially announced the HiSilicon Krin 820 5G SoC, which also happens to power the new mid-range smartphone from the company. Now, the AI benchmark score of the new chipset is out, revealing it to be only less powerful than the manufacturer’s own HiSilicon Krin 990 5G SoC and MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000 5G SoC.

Huawei has been leading in on-device AI processing on mobile chipsets for the past couple of years. The company’s Kirin 970 was the first mobile SoC to feature a dedicated NPU (Neural Processing Unit). Later, in the following year, the Kirin 980 became the world’s first mobile SoC to feature a dual NPU design.

Now, even with a single-core NPU on Kirin 820 5G chipset, the manufacturer has mastered AI performance. In fact, the newest mid-range silicon from the company is 73% better in AI processing than its predecessor Kirin 810 from last year.

Talking about pure AI-Benchmark score, the all-new Kirin 820 5G garners 41838 points, and thus makes its way to the third position. The first two places are occupied by Kirin 990 5G and MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G with an overall score of 70185 and 56158 respectively. Also, it is worth noting that non-5G version of Kirin 990 scores lesser than the new Kirin 820 5G with a score of 41773 points

Smartphones-wise, the Honor 30S with the Kirin 820 5G bags the 6th position with a score of 60843 points. Unsurprisingly, the top 7 positions are acquired by Huawei and Honor smartphones with Huawei P40 leading the chart. This is because we are yet to see a smartphone powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G SoC.

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At the Honor 30S launch event held in China today, the manufacturer announced the Kirin 820 5G which is the first mid-range 5G processor from Huawei’s HiSilicon semiconductor arm.

The Kirin 820 5G is a 7nm processor that is touted as an upgraded version of the Kirin 810.

Starting with the CPU, the Kirin 820 5G has 8 cores arranged in a 1+3+4 configuration. There is a prime Cortex-A76 core clocked at 2.36GHz and it is paired with three other Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.22GHz. The remaining four cores are Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.84GHz.

The Kirin 820 comes with a Mali-G57 GPU with six cores, but the clockspeed wasn’t mentioned. There is also a new feature called Kirin Gaming+ 2.0 that should bring improvements to gaming.

There is 1 Big core for the NPU and a Kirin ISP 5.0 inside the new chipset. The new ISP is 15% more energy-efficient and brings a 30% reduction in image noise with support for BM3D SLR image noise reduction. This is the same ISP used in the Kirin 990.

The Kirin 820 5G is said to offer a 27% improvement in performance compared to the Kirin 810. It also brings a 38% improvement in GPU capabilities. While the new NPU improves AI performance by 73%.

The processor has a built-in modem that supports both SA and NSA networks. It supports 5G dual-mode and five frequency bands – n1, n3, n41, n78, and n79. You can set SIM 1 to 5G while the second SIM slot is set to VoLTE or you can have both SIM slots set to VoLTE.

At the moment, the Honor 30S is still the only phone with a Kirin 820 5G SoC but expect more phones from both Honor and Huawei to launch in the coming weeks and months.

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The Kirin 820 5G is Huawei‘s upcoming mid-range processor and its very first one with support for 5G. A few days ago, some key details of the processor were leaked on the web. Now benchmark results have surfaced that compare it to the Kirin 980 and even Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855.

A graph comparing the benchmark scores of the three chipsets was posted on Weibo and it shows the Kirin 820 5G scored 3490 points in the single-core test and 11200 points in the multi-core test.

The chipset scored higher than the Kirin 980 processor which powers phones such as the Huawei P30 series and the Mate 20 series. It even scores higher than the Snapdragon 855 in the single-core test and ties with it for multi-score.

The Kirin 820 5G is a 7nm processor with Cortex-A76 cores and a Mali-G77 GPU. Based on its Geekbench scores, we presume it has four Cortex-A76 cores paired with four Cortex-A55 cores. It has also been revealed that the chipset will have an upgraded NPU and ISP.

Honor’s upcoming phone, the Honor 30S, should be the first device with a Kirin 820 5G chipset.

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Honor 30s leaked multiple times over the last week and yesterday the brand even announced the launch date as March 30. Now, Honor’s president has confirmed that the handset will be first to feature the brand new HiSilicon Kirin 820 SoC.

He said that Kirin 820 with 5G connectivity will perform extremely well and it will debut on Honor 30s. This statement is more than enough for us to anticipate the new chip. Because the only widely used mid-range 5G chip is Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, whereas MediaTek’s Dimentsity 1000 / L is only available on Oppo Reno 3 5G yet. With more mid-range 5G chips in the market, more people will get to use 5G networks in the regions where it is available.

The Huawei’s HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G chipset will likely be based on the company’s own Da Vinci architecture NPU built on the 7nm process. The silicon should use ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores and G77 GPU. Further, the newer ISP and NPU present in it will have support for Kirin Gaming Plus technology.

As per previous leaks, the Honor 30s will feature a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, a quad-camera setup, 40W charging support, and will come in White and Orange gradient color options.

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While MediaTek and Qualcomm have a couple of 5G chipsets for mid-range phones, Huawei is yet to announce one. There have been reports of one coming soon and it is expected to power the Honor 30S. Specs of the chipset which is reported to be called the Kirin 820 5G have been leaked today by a leaker.

The info was posted on Weibo by Digital Chat Station. According to the leaker, the Kirin 820 will be a 7nm chipset with Cortex-A77 CPU cores and a Mali-G77 GPU. He also added that the chipset will have an upgraded ISP and NPU.

The info doesn’t reveal the CPU arrangement, so we do not know how many Cortex-A77 cores it has. However, it appears to be more powerful than the Snapdragon 765G whose Kryo 475 cores are based on the Cortex-A76. However, it should be able to take on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000L which also has Cortex-A77 cores and a Mali-G77 GPU.

The Kirin 820 5G chipset is expected to launch tomorrow based on a statement by Zhao Ming, the president of Honor. The top executive said on Weibo that there will be an announcement tomorrow which is the 8th anniversary of Vmall, Huawei (and Honor’s) online mall. The announcement will be for a “new product whose core has been redesigned”. This statement is implied to be a hint for the new chipset.

The Kirin 820 5G will appear first in the Honor 30S but expect more devices to follow shortly after it is launched.

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