Honor 90 Lite vs Honor Magic 8 Pro

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Honor Magic 8 Pro (94/100)

Honor Magic 8 Pro leads overall with a score of 94/100 compared to Honor 90 Lite (43/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Honor 90 Lite
Honor

Honor 90 Lite

43/100
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Honor Magic 8 Pro
Honor

Honor Magic 8 Pro

94/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Gaming 13.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
NanoReview Score 43.0 Poor 94.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 30.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Battery type Li-Po Silicon-Carbon (Si/C)
Capacity 4500 mAh 7200 mAh
Fast charging Yes (55% in 30 min) Yes (81% in 30 min)
Full charging time 1:52 hr 0:40 hr
Max charge power 35 W 120 W
Replaceable No No
Reverse charging No Yes, (wireless)
Wireless charging No Yes (80 W)
Battery cycles — 1600 cycles
Bypass charging — Yes
Gaming — 08:32 hr
Standby — 116 hr
Watching video — 24:12 hr
Web browsing — 14:24 hr

Benchmarks

Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
CPU 207365 1207069
Compute Score (GPU) 1275 27643
Data manipulation 6808 17118
GPU 44155 1513881
Graphics score 134 2979
Graphics test 1 FPS 22 FPS
Memory 133108 461553
Multi-core score 2032 10610
Photo editing 16809 40028
Single-core score 724 3568
Stability 97% —
Total score 530583 3966144
UX 145955 783641
Video editing 5056 8214
Web score 7468 22533
Writing score 10740 30415
Section 1 — 56 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth features LE LE
Bluetooth version 5.3 6.0
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Hybrid slot No No
Infrared port Yes Yes
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
NFC* Depends on the region Yes
Number of SIM* 2 2
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
USB features - Charging- USB-Storage mode- OTG - Charging- USB-Storage mode- OTG
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 2 3.2
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band- Wi-Fi Direct- Wi-Fi Hotspot- Wi-Fi Display - Dual Band- Wi-Fi MiMO- Wi-Fi Direct- Wi-Fi Hotspot- Wi-Fi Display
Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
eSIM support* No Yes
DisplayPort — Yes, DP 1.2

Design and build

Design and build specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Colors White, Black, Blue White, Black, Gold, Green
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-button Yes, in-display
Frame material Plastic Metal
Height 162.9 mm (6.41 inches) 161.15 mm (6.34 inches)
Rear material Plastic Glass
Thickness 7.48 mm (0.29 inches) 8.32 mm (0.33 inches)
Waterproof No IP69
Weight 179 g (6.31 oz) 219 g (7.72 oz)
Width 74.5 mm (2.93 inches) 75 mm (2.95 inches)
Advanced cooling — Vapor chamber
Drop resistance — Very good (B) · 180 drops
Repairability — Good (3.41/5)

Display

Display specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Adaptive refresh rate No Yes (1-120 Hz)
Aspect ratio 19.9:9 20:9
Display features - DCI-P3 - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming
HDR support No Yes, Dolby Vision
Max rated brightness 500 nits 1800 nits
PPI 391 ppi 458 ppi
Refresh rate 90 Hz 120 Hz
Resolution 1080 x 2388 pixels 1256 x 2808 pixels
Screen protection Tempered glass Giant Rhino Glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.6% 89.9%
Size 6.7 inches 6.71 inches
Type IPS LCD OLED
Max rated brightness in HDR — 6000 nits

Main camera

Main camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
1080p video recording Up to 30FPS Up to 60FPS
4K video recording No Up to 120FPS
8K video recording No No
Aperture f/1.9 f/1.6
Autofocus Phase autofocus Laser autofocus
Camera features - Bokeh mode - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support
Flash Dual LED LED
Image resolution 11584 x 8688 8192 x 6144
Lenses 1) Standard: 100 MP2) Ultrawide: 5 MP3) Macro: 2 MP 1) Standard: 50 MP2) Telephoto: 200 MP3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Matrix 100 megapixels 50 megapixels
Slow motion 120 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Stabilization Digital Optical
Zoom Digital Optical, 3.7x
Angle of widest lens — 122°
Focal length — 23 mm
Pixel size — 1.2 micron
Sensor CMOS Omnivision OV50H
Sensor size — 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch)

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Channels 2 4
Memory card No No
Memory clock 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
RAM size 4 GB 12 GB
Storage size 256 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.1

Other

Other specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Announced June 2023 October 2025
Bundled charger Yes, 35 W Yes, 120 W
Category Mid-range Flagship
Launch price (MSRP) $300 $999
Release date June 2023 October 2025
Sensors - Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Fingerprint - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Face recognition sensor- Fingerprint
Successor -Honor 400 Lite —

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Architecture - 6 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A55- 2 cores at 2.2 GHz: Cortex-A76 - 6 cores at 3.63 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Performance- 2 cores at 4.61 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Prime
CPU cores 8 (2 + 6) 8 (2 + 6)
Chipset MediaTek Dimensity 6020 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS ~121.6 GFLOPS ~3686.4 GFLOPS
GPU clock 950 MHz 1200 MHz
GPU shading units 64 1536
Graphics Mali-G57 MC2 Adreno 840
L3 cache 2 MB 12 MB
Lithography process 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max clock 2200 MHz 4610 MHz
Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-11-02(Kazuha) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2025-12-08(ShaqiL) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-23(tamas93tech) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-16(Abdullah) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-01-05(Aiden) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-04-15(Nam Le) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-06-25->Lyncos — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-07(carrrpernaxa) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-18(WatchingTV) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-19(WatchingTV) — AnTuTu

Selfie camera

Selfie camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No Yes
Megapixels 16 megapixels 50 megapixels
Sensor CMOS Omnivision OV50H
Video resolution 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS

Software

Software specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Operating system Android 13 Android 16
ROM MagicOS 7.1 MagicOS 10
OS updates — 7 years
Security updates — 7 years

Sound

Sound specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Dolby Atmos No No
FM radio No No
Headphone audio jack No No
Speakers Mono Stereo

DxOMark main camera tests

DxOMark main camera tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Bokeh — 165
Samples — Photo samples of Honor Magic 8 Pro from DxOMark

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