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need opinions on Huawei's kirin processors. are they mediocre?

Big Boar

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hello people. i do some research on Soc's and its seems that qualcomm and mediatek soc's are better picks. the new kirin 710 of huawei doesn't seem to live up to expectations. people says its GPU is below average, that it only relies on "GPU turbo" support to be able to run games but only two games supports it, does this mean without GPU turbo we can't play games well? people also says its CPU speed is near below snapdragon 660 which is a bit older chip that means its inferior to Snapdragon 710 both CPU and GPU and yet huawei has guts to say its their answer against snapdragon 710. the kirin chips doesn't seem "good value for money" its seems more like "You get what you pay". an ok verage type just like samusung's exynos. but i see more value on qualcomm and mediatek, can anyone tell why kirin 710 is better than other brands? thank you.
 
If gpu matters to you I'm afraid Qualcomm are clear leaders at the moment. I don't know about the Kirin 710, but usually both the Kirins and Samsung's Exynos use the less efficient ARM Mali cores, sometimes sticking a lot of them in to get a good short-term benchmark score (or at least impressive-looking specs) but not competitive in sustained operation.

Personally though I never look at mediatek, in a large part because they don't compete in the flagship sector where I normally buy my devices (they also have a poor reputation for support, but at least some of that presumably comes from their being used in lower-end devices which are usually poorly supported by the manufacturer anyway). Hence I can't really comment on them.
 
Something to consider, you'll only find the Kirin in Huawei and Honor series phones, and for the 710 you've only got:
  • Huawei nova 3i
  • Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  • Huawei Honor 8X
  • Huawei Y9 2019
  • Huawei P Smart Plus
  • Honor 10 lite
 
**** no, they got great battery life unlike snapdragon shit which also overheat
 
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