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Battery & System Performance

Where the Nokia 8 lacks some features which might or might not be important on individual basis, the flagship indeed is the beast from the core. No wonder what’s running the system inside Nokia 8, is the most powerful Snapdragon chipset – the SP 835. No doubt it’s one of the best mobile processors in the market.

The processor has two Kryo clusters, each having four cores – clocked at 2.8GHz and 1.8GHz respectively. Besides running the whole system, the dedicated Adreno 540 GPU is there to support heavy kind of graphics in gaming. 4GB of RAM should perform well for Nokia 8 as it doesn’t carry any kind of over the stock material.

As we believe, the benchmark tools run at their aggressive level to test a device, a practical usage of a smartphone usually turns out as better. Still we are not dealing with any kind of mid-ranger here. As I mentioned above, Nokia 8 doesn’t really let us feel anything which shouldn’t be there in a flagship phone. It has the best hardware inside running it, it didn’t lag anywhere during the usage or in between the app-switching.

It’s really fluid to do its job without any kind of compromise. It’s quick to respond, the smooth Gorilla Glass should also have a bit of a credit here. As if the glass is not smooth to touch, even a good performance won’t matter.

Now you can check some Benchmark scores۔

AnTuTu 7

We have previously tested other devices with AnTuTu 6 but now when the newer version is out, Nokia 8 is tested with AnTuTu 7. The scores seem to be much different than of AnTuTu 6 so they can not be compared. Nokia 8 gets the total score of 210236 which is broke down in following categories

AnTuTu 7 Overall Score: 210236

  • CPU: 73039
  • GPU: 82440
  • UX: 45787
  • MEM: 8970

Nokia 8 AnTuTu 7 results

Geekbench 4

As expected, the Nokia 8 performed better than most recent flagships from Huawei if you remember the scores from our previous review of Huawei Mate 10 and Huawei P10. In fact it outperformed last year’s Samsung’s Galaxy S8. Nokia 8 scored as following in Multi-core and Single-core tests.

  • Single-core: 1942
  • Multi-core: 6595

Nokia 8 Geekbench 4 Scores

GFX OpenGL Benchmark Tests

Nokia 8 couldn’t get as much score as other devices with same hardware did. However it could get 41fps in Manhattan 3.1 and only 25fps in the Car Scene for 1080p offscreen tests. Not so good that the on-screen tests for a 2k display were way too bad as around 15fps for Car Chase scene 21fps for Manhattan 3.1.

Nokia 8 - GFX Onscreen/OffScreen

 

Basemark OS II / Basemark ES 3.1

Nokia 8 also did good on Basemark tests, either it’s Basemark OS II or ES graphics test. Basemark X is no discontinued officially so it will not be used for further tests.

Nokia 8 - Basemark OS II & ES 3.1

Vellamo

Nokia 8 Vellamo Scores

Battery Performance

3090mAh battery is only 90mAh larger in capacity than Nokia 6 or Nokia 5. But performance wise, the flagship processor seemed to have done a better job in Nokia 8. It’s quite good with a 5.3-inch screen and QHD resolution. Even though it performed better than its smaller siblings, the battery capacity of Nokia 8 is not above average. There are many flagship devices which can outperform Nokia 8 in this regard.