Honor 90 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 (60/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Honor 90
Honor

Honor 90

60/100
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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 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Gaming 20.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
NanoReview Score 60.0 Average 94.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 45.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Battery type Li-Po Silicon-Carbon (Si/C)
Capacity 5000 mAh 7200 mAh
Fast charging Yes (80% in 35 min) Yes (81% in 30 min)
Full charging time 1:12 hr 0:40 hr
Gaming 04:40 hr 08:32 hr
Max charge power 66 W 120 W
Replaceable No No
Reverse charging Yes Yes, (wireless)
Standby 84 hr 116 hr
Watching video 11:56 hr 24:12 hr
Web browsing 08:26 hr 14:24 hr
Wireless charging No Yes (80 W)
Battery cycles — 1600 cycles
Bypass charging — Yes

Benchmarks

Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
CPU 324311 1207069
Compute Score (GPU) 2963 27643
Data manipulation 9185 17118
GPU 119050 1513881
Graphics score 276 2979
Graphics test 2 FPS 22 FPS
Memory 174797 461553
Multi-core score 2968 10610
Photo editing 27068 40028
Single-core score 1110 3568
Stability 98% —
Total score 873573 3966144
UX 255415 783641
Video editing 7300 8214
Web score 10439 22533
Writing score 11979 30415
Section 1 — 56 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth features LE LE
Bluetooth version 5.2 6.0
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Hybrid slot No No
Infrared port No Yes
LTE Cat* 18 —
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
NFC* Yes 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 MiMO- 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 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
eSIM support* Yes Yes
DisplayPort — Yes, DP 1.2

Design and build

Design and build specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Colors Black, Silver, Blue, Green White, Black, Gold, Green
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Frame material Plastic Metal
Height 161.9 mm (6.37 inches) 161.15 mm (6.34 inches)
Rear material Plastic Glass
Thickness 7.8 mm (0.31 inches) 8.32 mm (0.33 inches)
Waterproof No IP69
Weight 183 g (6.46 oz) 219 g (7.72 oz)
Width 74.1 mm (2.92 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 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (60-120 Hz) Yes (1-120 Hz)
Aspect ratio 19.98:9 20:9
Contrast ∞ Infinity —
Display features - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming
HDR support Yes, HDR10+ Yes, Dolby Vision
Max rated brightness 1000 nits 1800 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 1600 nits 6000 nits
PPI 435 ppi 458 ppi
PWM 728 Hz —
RGB color space 99.7% —
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Resolution 1200 x 2664 pixels 1256 x 2808 pixels
Response time 1 ms —
Screen protection Tempered glass Giant Rhino Glass
Screen-to-body ratio 90.4% 89.9%
Size 6.7 inches 6.71 inches
Type AMOLED OLED

DxOMark main camera tests

DxOMark main camera tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Bokeh 60 165
Preview 64 —
Samples Photo samples of Honor 90 from DxOMark Photo samples of Honor Magic 8 Pro from DxOMark

Main camera

Main camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
4K video recording Up to 30FPS Up to 120FPS
8K video recording No No
Angle of widest lens 112° 122°
Aperture f/1.9 f/1.6
Autofocus Phase autofocus Laser autofocus
Camera features - Bokeh mode- Pro mode - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support
Flash Dual LED LED
Image resolution 16256 x 12192 8192 x 6144
Lenses 1) Standard: 200 MP2) Ultrawide: 12 MP3) Depth: 2 MP 1) Standard: 50 MP2) Telephoto: 200 MP3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Matrix 200 megapixels 50 megapixels
Pixel size 0.56 micron 1.2 micron
Sensor Samsung ISOCELL HP3 Omnivision OV50H
Sensor size 1/1.4" (≈ 0.71 inch) 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch)
Slow motion 960 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Stabilization Digital Optical
Zoom Digital Optical, 3.7x
Focal length — 23 mm

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Channels 2 4
Memory card No No
Memory clock 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
RAM size 8 GB 12 GB
Storage size 256 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.1

Other

Other specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Announced May 2023 October 2025
Bundled charger Yes, 66 W Yes, 120 W
Category Mid-range Flagship
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $999
Release date June 2023 October 2025
Sensors - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Fingerprint - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Face recognition sensor- Fingerprint
Successor -Honor 500 Pro —

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Architecture - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Cortex-A510- 3 cores at 2.36 GHz: Cortex-A710- 1 core at 2.4 GHz: Cortex-A710 - 6 cores at 3.63 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Performance- 2 cores at 4.61 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Prime
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 4) 8 (2 + 6)
Chipset Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Accelerated Edition Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS ~680.4 GFLOPS ~3686.4 GFLOPS
GPU clock 443 MHz 1200 MHz
GPU shading units 768 1536
Graphics Adreno 644 Adreno 840
Lithography process 4 nanometers 3 nanometers
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Max clock 2500 MHz 4610 MHz
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon
L3 cache — 12 MB

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-09-16(Tankis_x_s) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-10-25(backwood) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-12-04(Histen) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-12-15(IYesGenius) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-02-19(Zhiger) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-01(MrVolt) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-05-10(Damon) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-23(Zamorokk) 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 Honor Magic 8 Pro
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No Yes
Megapixels 50 megapixels 50 megapixels
Video resolution 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS

Software

Software specifications comparison
Specification Honor 90 Honor Magic 8 Pro
OS size 23 GB —
Operating system Android 13 (Can be upgraded to Android 14) Android 16
ROM MagicOS 8.0 MagicOS 10
OS updates — 7 years
Security updates — 7 years

Sound

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

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