Huawei's new Pura70 series once again features its in-house Kirin 9010 chipset, after both the P50 and P60 series were powered by Snapdragon 8-series 4G SoCs.
4 ReviewsHuawei made a return to its in-house Kirin chipset designs with the new Pura70 series.
The lineup is powered by the Kirin 9010, and the Pura70 Ultra has now been benchmarked, with its SoC delivering some rather disappointing numbers.
Starting with Geekbench 6, the Kirin 9010 on the Pura70 Ultra earns a single-core score of 1,446 and a multi-core score of 4,524.
The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 scores 1956 and 337,915 on those tests, again showing how far behind the Kirin 9010 is.
Huawei's new Pura70 series once again features its in-house Kirin 9010 chipset, after both the P50 and P60 series were powered by Snapdragon 8-series 4G SoCs. Performance-wise, the move to in-house silicon looks to be a step backward, with benchmarks showing the Kirin 9010 on the US$1400 Pura70 Ultra as being worse than even last-gen mid-range chipsets like the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2.
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Huawei made a return to its in-house Kirin chipset designs with the new Pura70 series. The lineup is powered by the Kirin 9010, and the Pura70 Ultra has now been benchmarked, with its SoC delivering some rather disappointing numbers.
Starting with Geekbench 6, the Kirin 9010 on the Pura70 Ultra earns a single-core score of 1,446 and a multi-core score of 4,524. Those numbers are, of course, much worse than current-gen chipsets like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Dimensity 9300. Sadly, however, they're also inferior to older flagship chipsets and even last-gen mid-range chipsets.
For example, the two-year-old Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 has median scores of 1,741 and 4,584 on Geekbench 6's single-core and multi-core tests respectively. That chipset, albeit in 4G form, was used on the P60 series last year, potentially indicating a generational performance downgrade. Last year's Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 on the Poco F5 (buy on Amazon) scores 1,687 and 4,378 on those two tests, too.
It gets much worse GPU-wise, as the Pura70 Ultra records a 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited score of 1,531, and an AnTuTu GPU score of 195,380. Comparatively, a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 phone like the Xiaomi 12S Pro scores 2,740 and 479,604 on those two tests respectively. The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 scores 1956 and 337,915 on those tests, again showing how far behind the Kirin 9010 is.
