System and Battery Performance
System Performance
Huawei’s both new Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro ship with proprietary HiSilicon Kirin 970 chipset. In numbers, it’s not so different from the Kirin 960 but the latest chip comes packed with a dedicated NPU (a Neural-Network Processing Unit) for faster on-board machine learning AI processing. Further the 970 is built on 10nm manufacturing process which is more more energy and power efficient.
The basic concept of all this is that the system doesn’t need to go around the internet for finding information about what’s being shown on the screen. The built-in unit – NPU has the capability of learning and adapting behavior and performing actions right on the phone in a faster way.
Currently the system is very limited to specific tasks which will be using the NPU. Huawei has told that new features will be coming in future which will take advantage of the NPU as well as encourage third parties to work with this unit for more adapting platform.
For instance, the Kirin 970 chip inside Mate 10 equips with an octa-core processor – four high-performance Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.36 GHz and four energy-efficient Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8 GHz. There is an i7 co-processor and world’s first Mali-G72 MP12 GPU. NPU has already been listed at various occasions above.
Along with that processing power, the Mate 10 only gives you a 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. The other Mate 10 Pro has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage but that’s the difference between the both regarding memory power and memory. 6GB of RAM sure will have a plus point with for more background tasks as well as 128GB is also more impressive. But the Mate 10 with what it has is also enough to stand among the top tier smartphones.
I have been using the Mate 10 as my primary device with both the SIMs active for over two weeks. I have put this phone from a regular user’s device to a geeky’s one and it performed to the expectations as derived from company’s claims. This phone did really well with its performance no matter what was thrown to it – whether it’s camera, opening or switching apps. Mortal Kombat, Need for Speed Nitro, Asphalt Xtreme, Modern Combat 5 were among the games I tried on it and they were good enough to mention with fast start and loading, and no lag.
Benchmark Tests
Let’s kill the regular usability if you are wondering about some benchmark test. We put it through the most popular benchmark tools and it actually showed its power to be among top lineup. Just forget Apple’s latest A11 chip in iPhone 8 and 8 Plus as it’s no way near that. Keep it under the Android umbrella and count it on top among other flagships including.
Geekbench 4 / AnTuTu 6
Basemark OS II / Basemark OS X
Vellamo
Battery Performance
With 4000mAh battery, Huawei promises that Mate 10 will keep up similar to the Mate 9. The battery itself has not been changed in capacity as well.
Mate 10 managed to give an average of 2 days per full charge on regular usage that includes both the Wi-Fi and LTE mobile data as well as location always-on. Give it some tough job with an hour of navigation, two hour of video playback, a couple of hours of web browsing and heavy use of camera with all your free time playing a game after game – then do not expect this phone to live up to a full day.
The phone supports Huawei’s proprietary SuperCharge technology with 5V and 4.5A. It’s one of the best charging in smartphones that doesn’t heat up the phone while charging faster – thanks to the low voltage battery. The shipped charger comes also has the standard 5V/2A as well and it can charge a fully drained Mate 10 up to 58% in 30 minutes.
