A Day with the Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Kirin 990 and 7680 FPS Slow Motion Tests
by Dr. Ian Cutress on September 23, 2019 4:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Huawei
- Kirin 990
- Mate 30 Pro
- 7680fps
A Benchmark or Two
Having had the smartphone for only a short while, I have not spent too much time on benchmarks – we will have that for the full review, when Andrei gets a chance to do a full teardown of the Kirin 990 SoC. For now, we have some PCMark data for you. The key test we like here is Writing, because this test is typically representative of a standard user experience and responsiveness.
With the extra CPU frequency and wider GPU, the Mate 30 Pro gets some gains over the previous generation Mate 20 Pro and P30 Pro, but ultimately nothing groundbreaking.
We attempted to run our AI benchmarks, however it would appear that Huawei is not yet ready with the NNAPI libraries for use with its Da Vinci NPU architecture. We expect those to roll out in due course.
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s.yu - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
Andrei should definitely look into this.Haldi - Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - link
Seems like it has AI which helps you start recording at the perfect time, similar to Samsung.One thing I really miss one my XZ2 sometimes.
peevee - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
" and other app stores, that contain the most popular applications (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp"And youtube or google maps are not as popular? BS. An Android phone without them is as good as useless.
SanX - Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - link
Add for comparison ASUS ROG II 12GB RAM 1TB storage, 6000 mAh battery, other processor phones like UMIDIGI latest phone with Mediatek Heliomaryammiahan - Thursday, September 26, 2019 - link
Thanks for this Post I think huawei mate 30 pro going to be a big hit and its camera features are most demanding features in smartphone.Cod3rror - Saturday, September 28, 2019 - link
Regarding the "Position 2: Clock Tower" picture. The auther says "however the Mate 30 Pro is a bit more hazier with less detail". I agree it's more hazy, but it definitely has more detail than P30 Pro.I am very impressed by Mate 30 Pro's details.
Haldi - Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - link
Ugs REALLY? I can do math myself...I know that 32 seconds on 30fps equal 960 frames in those 0.125sec which would be around 7680 frames in one Second...
But the Question is HOW?
You remember the Sony sensor which first made 960fps possible? They said it's impossible to render frames so fast, so they included onboard RAM on the sensor itself and transfer the data later.
The first Huawei phone which did 960fps simply recorded 240fps and used motion interpolation to upscale it to 960fps.
How can we be certain they didn't do anything similar here?
What kind of hardware tricks did they use to process 960 pictures in 0.125 seconds? Is the bus from Camera to cpu fast enough for that much data?
If so how comes we're limited to 0.125s why not use 0.25sec and 4gb of RAM?