Performance and Benchmarks
No wonder, the Huawei Honor 6 is a mid-range device when you look at its price. But it sure is wonder to find the new high-performance SoC with Octa-core CPU in this mid-range smartphone. The HiSilicon Kirin 920 with two quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex A7 and 1.7 GHz Cortex A15, is supposed to perform at higher level in the Honor 6.
We only tried with a couple of tests and not with most of the benchmark apps. The list includes Antutu Benchmark and Basemark OS II for the whole system performance and for the web we tested with SunSpider and the HTML5 feature test.
Starting from the Antutu Benchmark, which of course yet not compatible fully with Windows Phone devices leaving them always at the end. They are still building to match at every platform for the sake of comparison. Well here we are talking about an Android device, the Honor 6 which scored higher than any other Android smartphone in the line we tested. Nexus 5 was the first runner up, later came the Note 3 and iPhone 5C.
Second we tried with the Basemark OS II. It’s the popular cross-platform benchmark tool which performs most of the tests equally on each platform covering system, memory, graphics and web tests. The Huawei Honor 6 didn’t perform up to our expectations as it had the more power among any other participant smartphone.
Coming to web benchmark, as we can see the javascript seems more friendly to Windows Phone devices we tested. Huawei Honor 6 even came third among the Android flagships.
Lastly, we have HTML5 features score where of course Android web browsers peformed much better and later the Chrome browsers came to perform even better than AOSP browsers. We tested the Honor 6 with Chrome browser as well as in AOSP browser to check the HTML5 features compatibility. Note that the Nexus 5 in our test was running on the Lollipop preview build and was above any other browser on any smartphone. However with the KitKat 4.4.2 the Chrome browser in Honor 6 performed ahead of any other device. This score, however is not related to the hardware but software. So it’s good to give credit to Android OS in this regard.
Performance wise, the Honor 6 did not perform as we expected but looking at its class it has to be told that within this price range it would a best performer. We still feel, Huawei needs to optimize more within the software to work better with the hardware they have put into a smartphone.
Battery Performance
Let’s not wait and move on to test the camera quality of the Honor 6 with a few of still photos and videos.
