The global smartphone market keeps growing, especially with Android manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Oppo, and Samsung releasing new models almost every day to try to stay ahead of their competitors. However, with countless options, consumers can feel overwhelmed. That’s where benchmark platforms help. Recently, a well-known benchmarking platform “Master Lu” has released its highly anticipated March 2023 performance and smoothness rankings for new Android smartphones. Here are the details…

Oppo Find X6 Pro leads in March 2023 Android smartphone performance rankings

With the release of second-generation Snapdragon 8 CPU’s, Oppo and Meizu have emerged as frontrunners in this month’s rankings. The Oppo Find X6 Pro scored an impressive 1,405,592 points, outperforming other Snapdragon 8-powered devices. Meizu’s 20 series took the second and third positions, demonstrating their competitive edge in the market.

The Redmi Note 12 Turbo, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, dubbed “Little 8+”, managed to surpass several first-generation Snapdragon 8+ processor models. This performance reversal is a testament to the rapid advancements in processor technology and the potential for mid-range devices to compete with their high-end counterparts.

When it comes to smoothness, Meizu and OPPO are in a tight race, with the Meizu 20 Pro claiming the top spot and the OPPO Find X6 Pro trailing by a mere 0.02-point difference. Both brands have showcased their commitment to providing users with a seamless and smooth experience.

The OnePlus Ace 2V and Redmi Note12 Turbo also made their mark in the smoothness rankings, proving that a variety of manufacturers are dedicated to delivering high-quality devices that meet the ever-evolving demands of consumers. It remains to be seen how the competition will unfold in the coming months, but one thing is certain: Android users can look forward to exciting developments and cutting-edge technology in their smartphones.

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Earlier today (13th July 2021), Master Lu released its rankings for PC hardware. In this list, CPUs were listed for both desktops and notebooks with AMD dominating the list in performance, while Intel still leads in terms of sales.

For those unaware, Master Lu is a popular Chinese benchmarking platform, which also ranks smartphones as well. Now, its latest CPU benchmarking results for various processors reveal that Team Red has dominated the list in terms of performance. This holds especially true in the desktop CPU rankings, where it holds absolute dominance. While it does lose to a Team Blue chip for the top spot in notebook rankings, the rest of the top 5 CPUs are from AMD.

In the PC list, the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X with 64 cores sat on the throne scoring 1718608 points. The second spot went to the Ryzen Threadripper 3970X with 32 cores came in second with 1271635 points, while the Ryzen 9 5950X with 16 cores came in third with 1052712 points. Another 24 core Threadripper CPU arrived fourth and the only Intel processor in the top 5 was the i9-10980XE with a score of 915913 points. On the notebook list, the Intel Core i7-11800H had a comfortable lead with 667148 points, while the runner up Ryzen 9 5900HX only scores 584684 points. Although, the rest of the top 5 spots are only comprised of AMD processors.

This listing highlights the leaps AMD has made in processing power in its chips in recent years, which has enabled it to surpass Intel on various fronts and even regain footing in market share. Although, Intel still leads the market in terms of sales, accounting for around 70 percent of all desktop processor sales across the globe. While AMD’s market share in the notebook segment is better than its desktop counterpart, Intel still holds over 60 percent market share.

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Many smartphone manufacturers have launched their flagship smartphones, offering premium features and top-of-the-line specifications. Now, Master Lu has announced the list of top-performing Android smartphones for the first half of this year.

Interestingly, taking the top three spots are gaming smartphones. Black Shark 4 Pro is leading the list, followed by ASUS ROG Gaming Phone 5 Phantom while the third spot is held by ZTE‘s Nubia Red Magic 6 Pro.

Given that all of them are flagship gaming smartphones, all three devices are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. Leading the list of top-performing phones is Black Shark 4 Pro which has an average score of 938,991 points.

To make use of the full strength of the Snapdragon 888 SoC, the Black Shark 4 Pro smartphone comes with a “sandwich” three-dimensional liquid cooling system 2.0 for advanced heat dissipation for the 5G chip, processor unit, and 120W charging chip. It is designed with an isolation layout to effectively avoid excessive heat source concentration.

Apart from the above-mentioned three, other smartphones making it to the top-performing Android smartphones list include Vivo X60 Pro+, iQOO 7, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, OPPO Find X3 Pro, Realme GT, OnePlus 9 Pro, and Redmi K40 Pro.

There are a few more flagship smartphones on the way, which are slated to get launched in the coming weeks. Most of the new devices could come powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus chipset. As the name indicates, it’s an updated version of the SD888 which comes with a higher clock speed and better AI performance.

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Redmi today confirmed that the K40 Game Enhanced edition will launch in China on April 27. However, Master Lu has shared a poster on Weibo that suggests that there will be a standard edition too.

Before you get confused, there are two models of Redmi gaming smartphones that are reported to be in development. They are M2102K10C and M2104K10C. As tipster Digital Chat station says, both of them have already appeared on 3C certification authority with up to 67W charging support.

Now, the Master Lu Weibo post shows a screenshot of the benchmarks of a Redmi device with model number M2104K10AC. The device in testing has a MediaTek Dimensity 1100 chipset, 8GB of RAM, 256GB storage, and an FHD+ display.

That is, the resolution of the display is about 2400×1080 pixels which is also similar to the Redmi K40. Anyway, the M2104K10AC device scores 758,248 overall on the Master Lu benchmarks. This splits to above 268,303 in CPU, 249,963 in GPU, and the rest in other categories.

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It will be interesting to see if Xiaomi launches a “Standard version” alongside the Game Enhanced edition in China. Speaking of version, a similar device has been registered under POCO in India and it is expected to be the F-series device for the country.

Either way, the Redmi Gaming phone is said to feature a 6.67-inch S-AMOLED E4 screen with 144Hz refresh rate, the Enhanced Edition will have the Dimensity 1200 chipset and a 5,000mAh battery.

We can also expect the device to come with features like a dedicated COD theme, optimized for “PeaceKeeper Elite” with better haptic vibrations, TUV Rheinland’s High-Game performance certification for 5G connectivity, mechanical shoulder buttons, 64MP Sony IMX686 camera, run MIUI 12.5 out of the box.

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ASUS ROG Phone 5 is set to launch in China and other Global markets on March 10. It has already appeared in several leaks including benchmarking sites like Geekbench. Today the device has appeared on the Master Lu benchmarking platform.

Master Lu, in a Weibo post, has shared the benchmarking results of an ASUS device with model number “ASUS_I005DB”. We already know that the device is the ASUS ROG Phone 5 thanks to the previous leaks. Anyway, the results show that the device scores an overall 947,284 points.

And as the post says, this has got to be the best overall Master Lu score for a smartphone yet. Thanks to a true 18GB RAM, the device scores an exceptional 133,998 points in the memory segment. The other overall scores in categories like CPU, GPU, storage are 321,064, 351,767, and 140,455 respectively.

With this benchmark, we also get a glimpse of the specs coming on the ROG Phone 5. The device in testing has a 2.84GHz Snapdragon 888 running the show, a display resolution of 2448×1080 pixels, and 18GB of RAM that we already saw in a Geekbench.

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Speaking of which, the ROG Phone 5 is said to flaunt a 6.78-inch OLED screen. And looking at the benchmark result, we can expect it to be a FHD+ screen. The predecessor had a 144Hz refresh rate but let’s wait and see if ASUS brings upgrades to this like what Nubia did yesterday(Mar 4.).

An exclusive DXOMARK audio review has already revealed that the ROG Phone 5 will have a 3.5mm audio jack, Dual-Front facing speakers with Dirac tuning technology. Other specs of the will likely include Dot-Matrix LED on the rear panel, a 6,000mAh battery with 65W rapid charging.

There is a chance that ASUS might bring a more affordable version(without Dot-Matrix) to certain markets but we will have to wait for the confirmation.

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Master Lu, a Chinese benchmarking platform has released the list of top-performing smartphones as well as best phones with UI fluency for the month of November 2020. Both the lists include some of the most popular handsets released last month.

Talking about the performance list first, the China-exclusive Samsung W21 5G leads the chart with 801,264 points. In case you are not aware, it is a heavily customized Galaxy Z Fold2 powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+.

In the second place, we have the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Limited Edition with 796,932 points, followed by the Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G with a much lower 486,008 points. Since no other high-end smartphones launched last month apart from the first two, all the remaining eight models are either mid-range or budget devices.

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Hence, even the chart for UI fluency includes the same handsets but with some minor changes in order. For instance, the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Limited Edition (180.70 points) tops this list, whereas the Samsung W21 5G (179 points) comes second.

However, the Redmi Note 9 Pro 5G (174.90 points) continues to be in third place and so does the Redmi Note 9 5G, HUAWEI nova8 SE High Edition, OPPO K7x, and Redmi Note 4G at the fourth, fifth, second last, and last positions respectively.

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But since the HUAWEI nova8 SE Standard Edition has dropped to eighth place in this list, the vivo S7e captures the sixth spot, followed by OPPO Reno4 Mo Salah Limited Editon in the seventh position.

Having said that, we expect the December 2020 lists to include a little more high-end devices in the form of top model OPPO Reno5 series and vivo X60 series. 

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A new benchmark result for the upcoming Snapdragon 875 SoC has revealed some promising figures. The report also pits the next gen Qualcomm processor against the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 chip, which it outperforms on the CPU side while evenly matching its GPU.

According to a GSMArena report, a Chinese leakster shared the score sheet of Master Lu, which had the results on an engineering device. The new processor also features a similar 1+3+4 core layout that was also found in the previous gen Snapdragon 865 processor. However, the Prime core’s clock speed of the new Qualcomm flagship chip is also identical to its predecessor, clocking in at 2.84Hz. This is even below the 3.09GHz clock speeds of the Snapdragon 865+.

In other words, the upgraded core design might be what’s adding to the processor’s performance over the previous iteration, which also allows it to beat out the newly launched Kirin 9000 SoC in the benchmarks. Unfortunately for Qualcomm, the same results are not reflected for its GPU, as the Mali-G78 MP24 evenly matches and trades blow with the custom Adreno GPU designed by Qualcomm.

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In CPU performance, the Snapdragon 875 and 865 achieve a score of 333,269 and 290,169 points respectively on Master Lu’s benchmarks, while the Kirin 9000 scored 275,862 points, which is below both chips. Although, in GPU performance, the Kirin 9000 (344,334) managed to gain a negligible lead over the Snapdragon 875 (342,225) and a noticeable one against the older 865 chip (294,913).

Keep in mind that synthetic benchmarks and tests such as these do not always equate to a more powerful device when used in real life scenarios. Furthermore, smartphones that ran two chips also ran with different memory configurations as well. So take this report with a pinch of salt, and stay tuned for more updates regarding the new Qualcomm SoC.

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Last week, the HUAWEI Mate40 series made its global debut. These smartphones launched in China today. But ahead of it, Master Lu, a popular Chinese benchmarking platform had revealed the scores of HUAWEI Mate40 Pro+ on Weibo in the morning.

The scores of HUAWEI Mate40 Pro+ with HiSilcion Kirin 9000 are better than Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. But since the handset is yet to go on sale, the scores may come down as Master Lu Benchmark uses average score rather than the highest score. 

But still, it will beat the older Snapdragon 865. The bigger question is how well it will stand against the upcoming Snapdragon 875, which is also reported to be based on 5nm manufacturing process.

That said, here’s a table comparing the current scores of HUAWEI Mate40 Pro+ and Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra.

Anyway, benchmark scores don’t translate real-world performances. Hence, we do not recommend anyone buying a smartphone purely based on the points scored by it on multiple benchmarking platforms.

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Like every month, Master Lu Benchmark has released the lists of best smartphones launched in August in terms of performance and UI fluency. The Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra aka Mi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition leads both the lists, followed by iQOO 5.

Master Lu is a popular benchmarking platform in China. Like AnTuTu, it also releases monthly lists of best smartphones. The company shared the list of best-performing devices yesterday, followed by UI fluency list today on Weibo.

Surprisingly, the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra tops both the lists despite it being powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 unlike Snapdragon 865+ (Plus) present in Galaxy Note20 Ultra. Also, the regular iQOO 5 comes second instead of iQOO 5 Pro, which is at the fifth position.

Similarly, the regular Galaxy Note20 ranks third in performance, whereas the Ultra captures fourth place. However, in UI fluency, the latter comes at distant seventh, followed by the former at eighth.

Other notable handsets in the performance list include Redmi K30 Ultra, vivo S7, OPPO K7, realme V5, and Nokia C3 from sixth position onwards.

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Unsurprisingly, the Redmi K30 Ultra ranks ninth, just ahead of Nokia C3 in UI fluency. This goes in line with our review, in which we experienced it to be janky despite featuring MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ (Plus) chipset. Xiaomi really needs to optimize the software on this phone.

Last but not least, the vivo S7, OPPO K7, and realme V5 rank fourth, fifth, and fifth respectively in UI fluency.

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AnTuTu score is a bragging right for several manufacturers, and with the second set of flagships for the year beginning to arrive, the battle has been rekindled. Today, Ni Fei, the CEO of Nubia, has shared the AnTuTu score of the upcoming Red Magic 5S gaming smartphone.

According to a screenshot of the AnTuTu score shared on Weibo, the Red Magic 5 scored a total of 659,586 points. That is even higher than the 648,871 points scored by the Lenovo Legion Phone Duel.

The Red Magic 5G’s higher score may be as a result of its GPU which is said to be overclocked. The CEO also shared the device’s Master Lu benchmark score which is 616,085 points. Unfortunately, neither of the screenshots include the specs of the phone.

The Red Magic 5S will have a 144Hz refresh rate, a 320Hz touch-sampling rate, shoulder buttons, LPDDR5 RAM, UFS 3.1 storage, liquid cooling, and be powered by a Snapdragon 865 Plus processor. It is expected to run Android 10 out of the box and Nubia has also confirmed it will have a screen-casting feature along with a new low-latency virtual remote controller.

The phone is scheduled to launch on Tuesday, the 28th of July. The gaming phone will be announced alongside the Nubia Watch.

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Master Lu has recently revealed the rankings of smartphones that run at the lowest temperature for the second quarter of 2020. The scoring featured the overall score of a brand and its average handset temperature.

In the list, Vivo topped the charts with its overall average temperature of just 30.56 degrees Celsius. In other words, Vivo was ranked as the “coolest” smartphone brand and was praised for its heat dissipation and temperature control. South Korea’s Samsung arrived second with an average of 31.08 degrees Celsius while Oppo came in third with an average temperature of its handsets being 31.15 degrees Celsius.

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In terms of a single handset ranking, the Vivo U3x took the top spot, with the average temperature being just 27.96 degrees Celsius. Other notable performers in this category included the Samsung Galaxy M30s, Redmi 8, and iQOO Neo 855.

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In April, the Chinese benchmarking platform – Master Lu shared a report on the market share of smartphone brands in the first quarter of 2020 in China. Huawei ranked first followed by Honor, OPPO, Xiaomi and Vivo. Today, the company released the list of best performing smartphones for the month of April. The list is led by the OPPO Ace2 flagship that was announced earlier in the same month.

The OPPO Ace2 scored 522,110 in Maser Lu benchmarks. Second came the iQOO Neo3 phone that recorded a score of 483,920. The OnePlus 8 Prov acquired the third spot with a scored of 465,814.  Fourth came the OnePlus 8 with a score of 464,401. The top four are Snapdragon 865 mobile platform powered devices.

The Honor 30 Pro+ Kirin 990 5G powered surpassed Huawei P40 series with a scored of 424,344. The Honor 30 is placed sixth with a score of 421,840. The Huawei P40 Pro recorded a score of 386,083 to gain the seventh position. The Huawei P40 is on the eighth spot with 375,644 score.

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The Honor 30 which is the first Kirin 985 5G chipset powered smartphone reached the ninth position with a score of 341,227. Powered the same Kirin 985 SoC, Nova 7 Pro and Nova 7 gained the tenth and eleventh places in the list with respective scores of 330,930 and 330,431.

The other phones that are included in the top 17 best performing phones in April in China include Snapdragon 765G powered Xiaomi Mi 10 Youth Edition, the Kirin 820 5G powered Huawei Nova 7 SE, Nubia Play 5G that features SD765G, Honor Play 4T Pro driven by Kirin 810, Honor Play 4T fueled by Kirin 710A and Kirin 990 5G powered Huawei P40 Pro+.

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Master Lu, the Chinese benchmarking platform, has just released a data report regarding the market share of smartphone brands in Q1 of 2020 in China. The rankings feature major brands and also lists rankings for other categories as well.

According to Master Lu, Huawei ranked first with a market share of 18.51 percent, which was closely followed by its subsidiary Honor that arrives second with 14.66 percent. In other words, the group took a total of 33.17 percent market share alone. In the first quarter of 2020, Oppo surpassed Xiaomi, ranking third with a market share of 14.51 percent.

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On the other hand, Xiaomi had a market share of 13.9, with Vivo just behind it with a market share of 13.67 percent. Other smartphone brands like Samsung (4.72%), ZTE (2.7%), Meizu (2.6%), OnePlus (1.25%) and Nubia (0.75%). Keep in mind, that the figures shared above are just for the first quarter of 2020, and only serve as a reference at this period of time and are also heavily influenced by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

Notably, Master Lu had also recently published a report regarding the most commonly faked smartphone brands as well, which we had previously covered. Furthermore, the firm also publishes rankings for software UI, chipset rankings, smartphone performances and more. So stay tuned for updates regarding these as well.

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Chinese benchmarking outfit Master Lu has released its ranking of the most-faked smartphones in Q1 2020. Since the data is based on benchmark app appearance, we really didn’t expect the data to change significantly from that of the last quarter of 2019.

Worthy of note is the fact that most of the faked models in the top 9 listed are Samsung and Apple models with Xiaomi making the cut with a few models. The benchmark app detects underlying details that you cannot read from the “about phone” menu. As seen on the chart above, a total of 1,295,457 inspections were carried out in Q1 2020, of which the total number of fake phones reached 7,931 units.

The top five models on the list are; Samsung W2019, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone XS Max and Xiaomi Mi Max 3. Samsung W2019 is the most-faked model with 498 units detected although we can’t tell if the app detects if a single device runs through it several times. Fake iPhone X models were detected 246 times, iPhone 8 213 times, iPhone XS Max 172 times, and Xiaomi Mi Max 3 was detected 127 times. It is also noteworthy that the Mi Max 3 is the only mid-range model in the top 5.

In terms of regional spread, the Chinese provinces with the highest number of counterfeit models in descending order include; Guangdong, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi.

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In terms of percentage spread, Apple smartphones accounted for 29.54% of the fake phones recorded while Samsung accounted for 26.44%. Xiaomi accounted for 9.83% and Honor accounted for 6.10%.

A few things that are common with the cloned smartphones is the presence of a 720p display resolution, as well as MediaTek MT6589 processor bundled with a Mali-400 MP GPU onboard. Although the components are not necessarily fake, they are starkly different from what the OEM included in the original version. Interestingly, China’s tech hubs of  Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Beijing ranked among the top three cities where most of the fake smartphones are used in China.

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After revealing list of best performing smartphones, smooth performing smartphones, and the smoothest user interface, Master Lu has now announced a new list which reveals the market share of Android smartphone makers in China for the year 2019.

Going by the listing, Huawei is leading the market with 15.36 percent market share while Honor ranks second with 10.45 percent market share. The combined market share of both these brand stands at 25.8 percent. Thus, Huawei accounts for a quarter of the entire Android smartphone market in China.

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Vivo and Oppo are following closely at third and fourth position with a market share of 9.45 percent and 9.26 percent respectively. With a market share of 8.25 percent, Xiaomi is ranked fifth in terms of market share in China.

As per the reports, despite the overall decline in the Chinese mobile phone market, Huawei’s market share keeps on growing and the cumulative shipments in the first three quarters have exceeded 185 million units.

However, do note that the information mentioned on this report is based on Master Lu’s statistics derived from their background data. The report may not necessarily be accurate but it pretty much gives idea about the standing of different brands in the region.

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Master Lu, the Chinese benchmarking platform, has just released the 2019 annual report for the best performing smartphone chipsets. The report arrived earlier today (6th January 2020) and features many of the known industry leaders.

According to Master Lu, Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 855+ SoC is the best performing mobile processor of 2019. Huawei’s Kirin 990 5G chipset arrives second. Notably, MediaTek also made an appearance in the listing with its latest Dimensity 1000L 5G processor.

The Snapdragon 855+ takes the lead with a total score of 348,837 points, comprising a GPU score of 84,994 points and a CPU score of 163,843 points. The Kirin 990 5G chip comes in a close second with a total score of 326,101 points, with 160856 points in the GPU score and 165245 points in the CPU score. Furthermore, the third rank of the list also went to Huawei with the base variant of Kirin 990 with a total score of 324153 points. (GPU score of 160805 points and the CPU score of 163348 points).

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Further down the list, familiar names like the base variant Snapdragon 855 SoC, Samsung’s Exynos 9820, and even the previous year Qualcomm flagship, Snapdragon 845 chipset, can be found. Additionally, even MediaTek’s Dimensity 1000L 5G processor makes an appearance alongside the mid range Snapdragon 765G and the Kirin 980 SoC. The fact that a mid range chipset made it to the list shows the level of performance output Qualcomm is being able to deliver on its chips found on more affordable handsets.

Unfortunately, newer processors like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, MediaTek’s upcoming flagship Dimensity 1000 processor and even Samsung’s Exynos 980 chipset are not included in this list. These are the three major mobile processing platforms that will be seen this year (in 2020) and their performance will be benchmarked after official respective launches.

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The Honor V30 Pro is Honor’s latest flagship phone and the first Honor smartphone to be powered by the Kirin 990 5G processor. Prior to its release, the device’s AnTuTu benchmark result was shared on the web, now its Master Lu benchmark result has been released.

The benchmark result shows the Honor V30 score a total of 426,862 points. The total score is made up of a CPU score of 163,784 points, a GPU score of 163,249 points, a storage score of 57,284 and a memory score of 42.545.

The Honor V30 Pro’s score trails behind that of devices such as the Nubia Red Magic 3 which has a score of 459,463 points.

The Honor V30 Pro has a 6.57-inch display with a punch-hole for dual cameras. The display is an LCD panel and with a standard refresh rate of 60Hz. The Kirin 990 5G  processor is paired with 8GB of RAM and you can choose between 128GB or 256GB of storage. There is no MicroSD card slot, so you cannot add more storage.

Honor is marketing the V30 Pro as a camera-centric device with its 40MPprmary rear cameras paired with an 8MP telephoto camera and a 12MP ultrawide angle camera. Its dual front-facing cameras include a 32MP main sensor and an 8MP ultrawide angle sensor.

The phone has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, NFC, Bluetooth 5.1, and a 4100mAh battery with support for 40W wired fast charge, 27W wireless fast charge, and reverse wireless charging. It also supports NSA and SA 5G networks.

The Honor V30 Pro is priced at ¥3899 for the 128GB version and ¥4199 (~$597) for the 256GB version.

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Master Lu, the benchmarking platform the smartphones, has released a report for the third quarter of this year, i.e. Q3 2019, which reveals that the Nubia Red Magic 3S and the Black Shark 2 Pro were the top performing smartphones, grabbing the first and the second position respectively.

Both of them are gaming smartphones powered by the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus octa-core processor clocked at 2.96GHz, and are using UFS 3.0 for the internal storage.

The leading smartphone in the list — Nubia Red Magic 3S managed to score 489,460 points. The third spot in this ranking was grabbed by the Huawei Mate 30 Pro smartphone, which is powered by the company’s own Kirin 990 chipset.

However, in terms of fluency or smoothness, the Mate 30 Pro was the leading device, followed by Nubia Red Magic 3S and the OnePlus 7 Pro. As for the chipsets, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 Plus scored the most, followed by Huawei’s Kirin 990 and the Snapdragon 855 came third. Among the top 10 smartphones, the devices powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon series processors occupied five spots.

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Master Lu has also published data about the market share of Android smartphones in China for the third quarter. It reveals that Huawei is leading the list with 20.24 percent market share, followed by Honor with 14.21 percent market share.

OPPO, Vivo, and Xiaomi gets the third, fourth, and fifth ranks with 11.53 percent, 11.25 percent, and 11.06 percent market share respectively. Comparing the result with the same duration last year, OPPO and Vivo have registered significant increase in terms of share.

Other companies that makes it to the top 10 list include Samsung, Lenovo, Meizu, OnePlus, and Nubia with a market share of 9.49 percent, 4.9 percent, 3.45 percent, 1.55 percent, and 0.86 percent respectively.

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Chinese benchmark outfit Master Lu has released a list of the top-ranking phones that have been benchmarked on its app with the best fluidity in terms of the System user interface (UI). The ranking takes into consideration the system’s file copying speed, desktop slider response, web page loading time, boot loader, app response during usage, photo viewing experience and several user experiences. These parameters are used to verify the adaptability, optimization and fluidity of the mobile phone’s system UI.

The list shows that the top three most fluid smartphones in July are the Huawei Mate 20 X 5G, ASUS ROG Gaming Phone 2 and ZTE AXON 10 Pro 5G. Their scores are 146.41, 144.29 and 141.98 respectively. As a reminder, the Kirin 980 powers the Mate 20 X 5G while the ASUS ROG 2 is powered by a Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC and Snapdragon 855 for the Axon 10 5G.

Other models on the list include the Honor 9X Pro, Vivo iQOO Neo, Honor 9X, Huawei Nova 5i Pro, Lenovo Z6, Vivo Y7s, Xiaomi Mi CC9 Mito custom version, Xiaomi Mi CC9, Samsung Galaxy A80 and Xiaomi Mi CC9e.

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It is worth noting that some new mobile platforms or chipsets have appeared on the list for thebfirat time this July. One of such is the Snapdragon 810 Mobile platform which powers the Honor 9 Pro and Hoor 9X and Nova 5i Pro. Others include the Snapdragon 730G powering the Galaxy A80 and Snapdragon 665 onboard the Mi CC9e.

It is also noteworthy that almost all the phones on the list run new chipsets which underscore the small but important upgrades that are included on new phones with each release cycle.

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Master Lu, a smartphone benchmarking platform from China, has released the list of best smartphones for the first half of the year 2019. The list is led by Huawei P30 smartphone. Master Lu has also released other lists such as top 10 best performing smartphones, top 10 chipsets and top 10 mobile phone UI.

Huawei P30 has acquired 157.28 points to gain the first position in Master Lu’s top 10 best smartphone. The second place Nubia Red Magic Mars smartphone with 154.88 points. The OnePlus 7 Pro is placed on the third position with 150.54 points. The Honor V20, Huawei P30 Pro, Nubia X, OnePlus 7v, Xiaomi Black Shark 2, Meizu 16s and OPPO Reno Z are the devices that have made it to Master Lu’s list of best smartphones for first half of 2019.

The top list of best performing smartphones in the starting six months of the year has Nubia Red Magic 3 at the pole position with 459,463 points. Black Shark 2 is the second place with 425,758 points and the OnePlus 7 Pro is placed third with 413,669 points. The other phones in Master Lu’s best performing smartphones list are OnePlus 7, Samsung Galaxy S10+, OPPO Reno 10x Zoom, Vivo iQOO Monster Edition, Xiaomi Mi 9 Transparent Edition, Lenovo Z6 Pro and Meizu 16s.

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Master Lu’s top 10 list of chipsets for first half of 2019 has Snapdragon 855 mobile platform in the first position. It is followed by Snapdragon 845 (2.96 GHz) and another SD845 variant (2.8 GHz). The Kirin 980 chipset is on the fourth position followed by Samsung’s Exynos 9810 and Exynos 8895 chipsets. Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 730, Snapdragon 712 and Snapdragon 710 chipsets have respectively occupied seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth positions in the list.

Next comes the list of top 10 mobile phone UI which is led by Hydrogen OS by OnePlus followed by Joy UI on Black Shark gaming phones. The Nubia UI, EMUI by Huawei, Flyme by Meizu have made it to the top five. MIUI by Xiaomi ranks sixth, Smartisan OS is on seventh, ColorOS by OPPO is placed on eighth, One UI by Samsung is on ninth and Xperia UI by Sony is on tenth position.

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Master Lu has released a list of the best performing new smartphones released in May. The list shows that a total of 16 new models were released between May 1 to May 31 and this included seven flagship phones and nine mid-range models.

The OnePlus 7 Pro posted the most outstanding performance with a Master Lu benchmark score of 439,871 points. The OP7 Pro is followed by the ZTE Axon 10 Pro while the OnePlus 7 came third, both having benchmark scores of over 400,000 points. This is followed by the Redmi K20 Pro,  and Sony Xperia 1 with benchmark scores of 366499 points and 353523 points respectively.

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The list also has the Honor 20 Pro and Honor 20 at the sixth and seventh spots. Both Kirin 980 models had benchmark scores of 305,527 points and 295,193 points respectively, perhaps due to different clock frequencies.

The rest of the listed models are Snapdragon-powered models. They include the Redmi K20, OPPO Reno Z, Meizu 16Xs, Realme X, Vivo S1 Pro, OPPO K3, Realme X Lite, Vivo Z5x, Lenovo Z6 Lite etc. Among them, the Redmi K20 with a Snapdragon 730 chipset has a benchmark score of more than 250,000, which is far more than those of the Snapdragon 710 models.

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One of the reason behind the growth of the premium smartphones even though mid-range smartphones are now coming with similar specs is the fluency and smoothness in terms of performance of the smartphones.

Master Lu, a China-based benchmarking platform has published the report of the leading smartphones in terms of performance in the month of April 2019 and the recently launched Huawei P30 Pro emerged as a leader.

The P30 Pro from Huawei has been named as the best performing smartphone for the month of April 2019 in China with an average of 157.58 points. The phone was followed by Huawei P30 with 156.97 points. The third position was attributed to the recently launched Nubia Red Magic 3 gaming smartphone.

The list for the top performing smartphone for the month of April only consisted of the smartphones that were launched in April 2019. Thus, other phones that were launched before April, such as Xiaomi Mi 9, are not included in the list.

On the other hand, the list of popular smartphones for the month of April 2019 was also led by the Huawei P30 series of smartphones. Following that was Samsung’s flagship smartphone — Samsung Galaxy S10. The third spot was grabbed by the all-new Oppo Reno, followed by Meizu 16s.

There are three variants of the Huawei P30 Pro in China — 8GB RAM+128GB ROM, 8GB RAM+256GB ROM, and 8GB RAM+512GB ROM. It has a 6.47-inch display and is powered by the Kirin 980 processor. The phone has four rear cameras – a 40MP standard sensor, a 20MP ultrawide angle sensor, an 8MP periscope zoom lens, and a ToF 3D camera.

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The phone also has a 32MP selfie camera. There is a fingerprint scanner under the display, a 4200mAh battery with support for 40W fast charging and 15W wireless charging. The P30 Pro runs EMUI 9.1 based on Android Pie.

You can check out our review of the Huawei P30 Pro here.

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The Nubia Red Magic 3 will be unveiled on Sunday, April 28. The phone will pack some interesting features including a 90Hz display. Ahead of the launch, the device has been benchmarked on Master Lu and the result reveals some key details.

The Red Magic 3 will have the model number NX629J. It will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 flagship processor clocked at 2.84GHz. There are reports of a 12GB RAM variant and the benchmark result confirms that. The other variant will have 8GB of RAM.

The device has a CPU score of 174,283 points and a GPU score of 191,043 points. Its memory score is 58,699 points and its storage score is 48,922 points with a read speed of 836M/s and a write speed of 257M/s.

The Red Magic 3’s overall score is 472,947, far ahead of the Xiaomi Black Shark 2 which has a total score of 404,809 points and the Vivo iQOO which has a score of 384,718 points.

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The Nubia Red Magic 3 will have a single rear camera, a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, and pack a 5000mAh battery. It will also have a built-in cooling fan. A reservation page is already live on JD.com.

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After Huawei launched its big guns for the first half of 2019, it’s time for Honor to come into the spotlight. The company announced its Honor 20i mid-ranger just a few days ago and now, it is preparing for the launch of its flagship Honor 20 model in May.

It looks like the upcoming phone has been spotted on the Master Lu benchmark. The listing of YAL-AL00, believed to be the Honor 20, confirms a few of the specs of the device. First, it is powered by Huawei’s flagship 7nm Kirin 980 processor and will be supported by 8GB of RAM. Further, the resolution is said to be 2340 x 1080p, which confirms its 19.5:9 aspect ratio. If you remember, even the Honor 20i mid-ranger comes with the exact same resolution. Finally, the model scores around 338,924 in the benchmark, which puts it in the high-end category.

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The Honor 20 will be an important smartphone in the brand’s game plan in 2019. Honor and Huawei put together aims to be the top smartphone manufacturer in the world by the end of this year.

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After releasing a list of best-performing smartphones, Chinese benchmarking outfit Master Lu has now released the list of best performing mobile chipsets in the first quarter of the current year.

The list of combined processors for Q1 2019 was topped by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset, which is the company’s current-generation of its flagship mobile processor. The second and the third spot was grabbed by Snapdragon 845 (2.96GHz) and the Kirin 980 chipset from Huawei. The three chipsets scored 157,531; 142,257; and 119,356 points respectively.

Following them, the list includes Snapdragon 845 (2.8GHz), Samsung Exynos 9810, Samsung Exynos 8895, HiSilicon Kirin 970, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, Kirin 960, and the Snapdragon 821 from fourth to tenth positions.

However, when it comes to best performing AI-powered chipsets in Q1 2019, Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC and Apple A12 Bionic chipset took the first and second spot respectively, while the Kirin 980 comes in at third. The SD855 scored 44,367 points, whereas A12 and Kirin 980 scored 40,822 and 19,003 points.

Other chipsets grabbing the spot from fourth to tenth are all Qualcomm’s chipsets. It includes Snapdragon 845, Snapdragon 710 AIE, Snapdragon 670 AIE, Snapdragon 710, Snapdragon 835, Snapdragon 820, and Snapdragon 660 AIE.

The company has also released the result of market share in China, which Huawei is leading with 15.89 percent market share, followed by its sub-brand Honor that has captured 11.5 percent of the Chinese smartphone market. Samsung ranked third in terms of market share with around 9.11 percent share, exceeding the share of China-based Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and other manufacturers.

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In the recently released best-performing smartphones result, Xiaomi’s Black Shark 2 gaming phone was ranked as the best performing phone. The phone has an average benchmark score of 404,809 points and is closely followed by the Galaxy S10+ and the all-new Vivo iQOO gaming smartphone. Xiaomi Mi 9 ranks as the fourth best while the Nubia Red Magic Mars gaming phone sits at the number 5 position.

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Last week, Nubia announced the crowdfunding of its second gaming phone. Originally thought to be called the Red Magic 2, new info has revealed it will probably launch as the Red Magic Mars. The phone has now been benchmarked on Master Lu and AnTuTu.

The phone appears on both benchmark apps as the Nubia NX619J. The Red Magic Mars is powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor and 8GB of RAM. Based on the crowdfunding page and the bunch of teasers, there will also be a 10GB RAM variant with 256GB of storage. Its display size isn’t given but the resolution is said to be 2160 x 1080, the same as that of the Red Magic.

The phone scored a total of 361,730 points on the benchmark app, surpassing not by a small margin, the benchmark score of the Nubia X (311,441 points) which is powered by the same processor and also has the same amount of RAM. If this is the score of the 8GB version, expect the 10GB RAM model to score higher.

The Red Magic Mars also scores high on AnTuTu. Its benchmark score of 319,781 points puts it ahead of the Kirin 980-powered trio of the Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, and the Mate 20 X and also the Snapdragon 845-powered Black Shark Helo.

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The phone already crossed its crowdfunding in 2 hours after the page went live. There should be a proper launch in December and the phone should start shipping to backers at the end of December.

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Nubia will take the wraps off its dual-screen flagship -the Nubia X – at an event tomorrow. The phone has been benchmarked again on the latest version of the Master Lu app.

The benchmark app lists the device as the Nubia nx616j. It is powered by the Snapdragon 845 processor clocked at 2.8GHz and has 8GB of RAM. It also reveals the display has a resolution of 2280 x 1080. Apparently, this is the main display which has no bezels.

The result states the phone has a CPU score of 130,313 points, a GPU score of 108,705, points, a memory performance score of 40,732 points, and a storage performance score of 31,691 points. The overall score for the Nubia X is given as 311,441 points which put it in the flagship category according to the app just in case you need more proof to know it is a flagship phone.

The Nubia X is said to be the company’s best phone to date. The dual screen design is Nubia’s take on the truly bezel-less trend. Rather than add a notch or settle for a slider design to hide the camera and sensors, Nubia has settled for two displays.

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The primary and larger display has practically no bezels which mean there is no space for a front-camera. Then there is a smaller display on the rear which sits below dual cameras that serve as both selfie and rear cameras. The larger screen is a 6.26-inch FHD+ LCD display and the smaller screen is a 5.1–inch HD+ OLED display. Nubia has put a 3,800mAh battery in the device to keep it running.

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Google is expected to debut Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones at the beginning of October. The design of these phones is no secret as recent reports have claimed that the Pixel 3 will be sporting an 18:9 display whereas the Pixel 3 XL would be arriving with a notched screen. Today, the Pixel 3 XL has surfaced on Master Lu, a benchmarking platform from China to reveal some of its key specifications.

On Master Lu, the Google Pixel 3 XL has recorded an impressive score of 212,778. The Master Lu listing has revealed that the smartphone features Snapdragon 845 SoC and 4 GB of RAM. Even the Geekbench listing of the Pixel 3 XL smartphone had revealed that it is equipped with the same amount of RAM.

Some of the flagship phones that have launched in the recent past such as OnePlus 6 include 8 GB of RAM. Also, most of other flagship phones have 6 GB of RAM. Hence, Pixel 3 XL with 4 GB appears weaker than the flagship smartphones from rivaling brands. Probably, there could be a higher variant of Pixel with 6 GB of RAM.

The Master Lu listing of the Pixel 3 XL has further revealed that it supports a screen resolution of 2960 x 1440 pixels. It means the phone will offer an aspect ratio of 18.5:9 like the notch-less displays found on Samsung Galaxy phones. However, renders of the Pixel 3 XL that have surfaced in the recent past have revealed that it will be equipped with a notched screen. Hence, it appears that the display resolution mentioned on Master Lu suggests that it may not have taken its notch into consideration.

Master Lu has not revealed other information such as battery capacity and storage size of Pixel 3 XL. Recent reports including the case renders of the smartphone have revealed that it will be featuring a single rear camera. The Pixel 2 XL that featured a single camera was able to score 98 points on Dx0Mark. The Pixel 3 XL is expected to deliver stellar photography experience, but it won’t be featuring dual rear cameras like its rivals.

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The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are expected to support two-tone design like their predecessor models. It is speculated that the presence of the glass portion on Pixel 3 XL duo will allow them to support wireless charging. Also, the smartphone will deliver an improved Active Edge experience. Both the smartphones are expected to feature dual front-facing cameras and dual speakers.

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The year 2017 saw smartphones trending on two fronts, one is the full-screen design while the second is the presence of artificial intelligence. The full-screen bezel-less design was absolutely the most prominent trend, making it difficult to keep track of the number of full-screen models that have so far been launch. However, artificial intelligence is yet to be adopted extensively and so, benchmark outfit Master Lu has helped us out with a list of the best AI smartphones around presently. Actually, the list is for 2017 AI-packing smartphones but since this year, we are yet to see any major smartphone launch so the ranking is still intact.

The top 10 smartphones with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dominated by Huawei with two of its models sitting at the first and second spots. The two Huawei smartphones on the list feature the Kirin 970 chipset with its dedicated NPU bringing AI capabilities to the smartphones. The Huawei Mate 10 sits at the top of the charts with 233 points and is closely followed by the Honor V10 with 232 points. Apple’s iPhone X, powered by the A11 bionic processor and the iPhone 8 Plus occupy the third and fourth positions with 184 and 181 points respectively. It is worthy of note that the gap between the Kirin 970-driven Huawei models and the A11-powered Apple models is more than 20%. That shows the level of AI capabilities the Kirin 970 chip packs. Perhaps, Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 845 would be able to challenge the Kirin 970 but for now, its AI feature seems to be in a class of its own.

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Other AI-packing smartphones ranked on Master Lu’s benchmark top 10 AI flagships list include ZTE’s Nubia Z17, Nubia Z17S, 360 Q5 Plus, Smartisan Nuts Pro 2, OnePlus 5, and Vivo Xplay 6.

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Just like AnTuTu and Geekbench, Master Lu is another benchmark for devices like smartphones. Though it’s not as popular as the other two, we do see its benchmarks crop up once in a while and its benchmark listing usually gets attention among the western media especially when its of an unannounced model.

Despite being unpopular outside of China, the benchmark tool has a database of all the major smartphones released in the past one year, including the OnePlus 5, Nubia Z17, Mate 10 models and so on. So, when the benchmark app released its top 10 list of smartphones of 2017, it was worth checking who came out on top.

We all keep a close watch on AnTuTu’s top smartphones and unsurprisingly, the OnePlus 5 and the Galaxy Note 8 are the top two smartphones on the benchmarking app. The AnTuTu rankings are yet to be updated to include recent models and it seems that the ranking hasn’t been refreshed since October 2017.

However, in case of Master Lu’s top 10 smartphones list, there are quite a few recent models including the recent Mate 10 models. The Nubia Z17, though old, is right on top and followed by the Mate 10 Pro and the HTC U11. The OnePlus 5T model is way behind, at the eight spot. The Galaxy Note 8 is also down at the sixth spot, preceded by Google’s Pixel XL 2. Eight out of the 10 models were powered by Snapdragon 835, while Kirin 970 powered flagships occupied two spots in the list.

It’s worth mentioning that the first two scores are very close. The Huawei Mate 10 Pro (167467) with Kirin 970 scores almost as much as the Nubia Z17 (167988) powered by Snapdragon 835. So it looks like Master Lu’s benchmark puts Kirin 970 very close to SD835 in terms of performance.

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