Honor Launches The View20: A 48MP Camera Review
by Andrei Frumusanu on January 28, 2019 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Mobile
- Kirin 980
- Honor View20
GPU Performance
GPU performance of the View20 is actually one of the things that should actually differ from what we’ve seen in the Mate 20’s: the explanation here is related to the fact that the View20 promises a much improved SoC thermal dissipation solution in the form of a heat pipe system, while the Mate 20’s did not employ any such dedicated solution.
For GPU and gaming performance, sustained performance is the key measurement metric as over the last few years we’ve seen devices vary a lot between their peak performance figures and their longer term thermally constrained figures.
Starting off with 3DMark’s physics test, the View20 actually ends up as the top performing device tested so far. Here its thermal dissipation solution as well as thermal throttling settings do allow the phone to post near its peak performance even though the phone had reached its peak thermal temperature and thermal envelope equilibrium after more than 30 minutes of load.
The graphics subtest also fares well for the View20. Although it again shows very good sustained performance figures near its peak, the Mali G76MP10 GPU in this case still lags a bit behind Qualcomm and Apple’s solutions.
In both GFXBench Aztec benchmarks, the View20’s sustained performance is again exemplary, showing no throttling even after long periods, but as before the absolute performance still is a bit behind Qualcomm and Apple’s best.
Finally, in the by now a bit more legacy GFXBench tests, we again see the View20 beat the sustained performance offered by the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro with the same Kirin 980 chipset.
Overall, the View20’s gaming performance looks to be quite good – its peak performance isn’t quite up to par with the latest generation chipsets, however its sustained performance is quite excellent due to the what looks to be Honor’s new heatpipe SoC thermal dissipation solution. The end-performance ends up around between some of the better Snapdragon 845 devices we’ve seen in 2018 – which is actually a good place to end up in given Kirin SoC’s rather disappointing showings in the last few generations.
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MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
While on a technical level the camera isn't that bad, the lack of consistency is a major detractor for me. Having to flip between all the different shooting modes and hoping one of them takes a good picture is not something I want to be dealing with on a day-to-day basis when I'm trying to pull of a quick photo.That said, to me the biggest revelation in the camera roundup is how badly tuned the Night Mode is on the OP6T. (I have a OP6 and have only played with the new mode a couple times and never really shot anything with it). Sure, it is *brighter* but the output just looks silly -- especially in the 1st and 2nd night shots. In the 3rd night shot, it just looks like someone dialed the noise reduction up and then nudged the brightness up a tad.
GreenMeters - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
I wish Anandtech wouldn't support a criminal organization like Huawei with reviews of their products.jabber - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
I'm still waiting for definitive proof on all these technical hi-jinks Huawei are supposedly into.Evidence of chips/firmware/code/telemetry etc.
At the end of the day the West doesnt like them getting so big. If they can't keep up...too bad.
GreenMeters - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
That's an either stupid or disingenuous take. Lenovo is the global #1 PC manufacturer; "The West" doesn't care about them getting so big. Tencent is a huge technology company; "The West" doesn't care about them getting so big. What "The West" (and "The East" outside of China) doesn't like is a known front for state-sponsored espionage deploying spyware in critical infrastructure and stealing property. Some "hi-jinks" huh?jabber - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - link
Sources with definite details?GreenMeters - Thursday, January 31, 2019 - link
So as you're just trolling at this point, I was going to point out that since the only thing you'll accept as "definitive proof" is written material from Huawei bigwigs saying "MUWAHAHA LET'S BE EVIL" so of course you in bad faith will never be satisfied. Except holy shit, from the indictment there ARE written material from Huaweu bigwigs saying "MUWAHAHA LET'S BE EVIL AND STEAL ALL THIS STUFF" so mea culpa.jabber - Sunday, February 3, 2019 - link
So once again...no real evidence.shompa - Friday, February 1, 2019 - link
according to who? Are you one of those that believes evil Russian hackers won the election to Trump with 100K dollar facebook ads (while Hillary spent 2 billion on ads)? And if you read all the evidence that USA has put forward: It all comes down to a DNS address that points to a Russian casino. The point is: where is the real evidence against Huawei and please be more critical to the stories that your government tells you. It's not real.tuxRoller - Saturday, February 2, 2019 - link
https://www.politico.eu/article/report-dutch-agenc...https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-04/russia-trie...
D1G1TE - Tuesday, January 29, 2019 - link
Honor View 20 beats Pixel 3 in resolved detail while using 48MP or 48MP Clear in some cases. Pixel 3 looks like water painting, with very artificial/unnatural HDR look full of edge halos when one compares photos from both phones at same zoom level. Pixel 3 and Mate 20 PRO still have slight edge at night with Mate 20 PRO heaving cleanest photos compared to resolved detail. Amazing work from Honor with new Sony sensor. Resolves even more detail than Mate 20 PRO sensor during day.