Honor Magic 5 spotted on Geekbench with impressive scores powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset
Confirmation of the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 SoC has been revealed by the listing of the Honor Magic 5 on Geekbench.
Honor has officially announced the launch of its upcoming Honor Magic 5 smartphone for the global market, which will be unveiled at the MWC Barcelona 2023 event on February 27th. However, before the official launch, the smartphone has already made an appearance on the Geekbench certification website.
The listing reveals that the device will be equipped with the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen2 SoC. This confirmation of the chipset promises impressive performance for the Honor Magic 5, making it a highly anticipated smartphone.
Honor Magic 5 visits Geekbench
According to the Geekbench website, the upcoming flagship smartphone from Honor, known as PGT-AN00, will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. The chipset, codenamed Kalama, boasts a primary CPU core that runs at an impressive speed of 3.19GHz, along with four performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz and three efficiency cores running at 2.02GHz.
The particular model of the Honor Magic 5 listed on the website has 12GB of RAM, although it is possible that there could be other RAM variants available for the device. This information suggests that the Honor Magic 5 will be a powerful and high-performing smartphone with impressive processing capabilities.
Geekbench listing of the Honor Magic 5 reveals that the phone will run on Android 13 out of the box. The smartphone has achieved some of the highest benchmark scores we have seen, with 1411 on the single-core test and 4584 on the multi-core test.
These results indicate that the Honor Magic 5 will be a fast and powerful smartphone capable of handling resource-intensive apps and games smoothly.
Honor Magic 5 rumored specifications
The Honor Magic 5 is rumored to feature a 6.8-inch OLED LPTO display that offers a refresh rate ranging from 1Hz to 120Hz, 2160Hz PWM dimming, 480Hz touch sampling rate, HDR10+ support, and up to 1100 nits of brightness.
The circular camera module with three camera sensors, positioned in a triangle configuration at the center, is confirmed in previously leaked renders. One of the sensors is a periscope telephoto lens, and the module also includes an LED flash.
