Huawei is gearing up to launch their new budget Nova 5 to show off their far more interesting new Kirin 810 which looks to be an excellent new mid-range chipset.
Huawei has been producing and exclusively using their own in-house HiSilicon Kirin mobile chips for a good while at this point, and while the flagship processors have consistently had back-and-forth years of competition against the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung, their lower tier SoC's have consistently performed below their roughly equivalent competition.
With Huawei/HiSilicon's new Kirin 810 though, they look to be muscling into the mid-range with a real contender; built on the newest and most efficient 7nm lithography and running on ARM's latest released micro-architecture design of the A76, the Kirin 810 will be right up in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730's face.
The two chipsets – the Kirin 810 and Snapdragon 730 – should be about on par in performance though the Kirin will likely be more efficient due to being 7nm versus the Snapdragon's 8nm process, yet the Snapdragon's Adreno GPU will almost certainly be superior to Kirin's licenced Mali GPU as that is usually Qualcomm's strength; great competition nonetheless.
That Snapdragon 730 has already been released though and so we can gauge the Kirin's performance; it will be good.
We're at a point now where the mid-range chips in most phones (Qualcomm and now Huawei, though not quite Samsung yet) are absolutely powerful enough for anything a normal user would do; indeed the Snapdragon 730 is about on par with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 which was featured in flagships only six months ago while being even more efficient.
I reviewed Nokia's 8.1 which ran even the older Snapdragon 710, which was on par with a Snapdragon 835 from 2017, and even that was absolutely fast and snappy and fantastic for anything I do on my phone while enabling stellar battery life, so rest assured that any Huawei phone running this new Kirin 810 in future will be powerful.
Huawei has confirmed they will first display the Kirin 810 chip in their upcoming Nova 5 mid-ranger, though, which has been leaked to also sport a 6.4″ FHD+ AMOLED display with a pimple notch, 48MP primary rear camera, 32MP front camera, under-display fingerprint reader, and mammoth 4200mAh battery with uber-fast 40W charging.
With such an efficient chip in a phone with such a huge battery, I'd expect the Nova 5 to get a full 2 days of normal use consistently, especially when paired with Huawei's annoying, but indisputably efficient, aggressive background process culling.
Huawei has confirmed they will launch this excellent new chip and phone alongside a new MediaPad – one of the few remaining good Android tablets – in two days on June 21; stay tuned to Talk Android for the event!
Source: GizChina
