Honor Magic 5 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 Magic 5 Lite (47/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Honor Magic 5 Lite
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Honor Magic 5 Lite

47/100
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Honor Magic 8 Pro
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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 Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Gaming 16.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
NanoReview Score 47.0 Poor 94.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 33.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Battery type Li-Po Silicon-Carbon (Si/C)
Capacity 5100 mAh 7200 mAh
Fast charging Yes (57% in 30 min) Yes (81% in 30 min)
Full charging time 1:13 hr 0:40 hr
Gaming 05:46 hr 08:32 hr
Max charge power 40 W 120 W
Replaceable No No
Reverse charging No Yes, (wireless)
Standby 139 hr 116 hr
Watching video 13:56 hr 24:12 hr
Web browsing 09:20 hr 14:24 hr
Wireless charging No Yes (80 W)
Battery cycles — 1600 cycles
Bypass charging — Yes

Benchmarks

Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
CPU 223599 1207069
Compute Score (GPU) 1369 27643
GPU 72815 1513881
Memory 98642 461553
Multi-core score 2128 10610
Single-core score 909 3568
Total score 568391 3966144
UX 173335 783641
Data manipulation — 17118
Graphics score — 2979
Graphics test — 22 FPS
Photo editing — 40028
Section 1 — 56 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS
Video editing — 8214
Web score — 22533
Writing score — 30415

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth features LE LE
Bluetooth version 5.1 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 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 Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Colors Black, Silver, Green White, Black, Gold, Green
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Frame material Plastic Metal
Height 161.6 mm (6.36 inches) 161.15 mm (6.34 inches)
Rear material Plastic Glass
Thickness 7.9 mm (0.31 inches) 8.32 mm (0.33 inches)
Waterproof No IP69
Weight 175 g (6.17 oz) 219 g (7.72 oz)
Width 73.9 mm (2.91 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 Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Adaptive refresh rate No Yes (1-120 Hz)
Aspect ratio 20:9 20:9
Contrast ∞ Infinity —
Display features - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming
HDR support No Yes, Dolby Vision
Max rated brightness 800 nits 1800 nits
PPI 395 ppi 458 ppi
PWM 60 Hz —
RGB color space 94.6% —
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Resolution 1080 x 2400 pixels 1256 x 2808 pixels
Response time 1 ms —
Screen protection Tempered glass Giant Rhino Glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.9% 89.9%
Size 6.67 inches 6.71 inches
Touch sampling rate 300 Hz —
Type AMOLED OLED
Max rated brightness in HDR — 6000 nits

DxOMark main camera tests

DxOMark main camera tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Bokeh 45 165
Preview 48 —
Samples Photo samples of Honor Magic 5 Lite from DxOMark Photo samples of Honor Magic 8 Pro from DxOMark

Main camera

Main camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 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/1.8 f/1.6
Autofocus Phase autofocus Laser autofocus
Camera features - Bokeh mode- Pro mode - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support
Flash LED LED
Image resolution 9216 x 6912 8192 x 6144
Lenses 1) Standard: 64 MP2) Ultrawide: 5 MP3) Macro: 2 MP 1) Standard: 50 MP2) Telephoto: 200 MP3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Matrix 64 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 Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Channels 2 4
Memory card No No
Memory clock 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
RAM size 6 GB 12 GB
Storage size 128 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 4.1

Other

Other specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Announced February 2023 October 2025
Bundled charger Yes, 40 W Yes, 120 W
Category Mid-range Flagship
Launch price (MSRP) $379 $999
Release date February 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 Magic 8 Lite 5G —

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Architecture - 6 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 660 Silver (Cortex-A55)- 2 cores at 2.2 GHz: Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A78) - 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 Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
FLOPS ~430.1 GFLOPS ~3686.4 GFLOPS
GPU clock 840 MHz 1200 MHz
GPU shading units 256 1536
Graphics Adreno 619 Adreno 840
Lithography process 6 nanometers 3 nanometers
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max clock 2200 MHz 4610 MHz
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon
L3 cache — 12 MB

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-03-01(Ryu) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2024-03-15(Moё имя) GeekBench GPU —
📘 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 Magic 5 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 Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
OS size 18 GB —
Operating system Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 13) Android 16
ROM Magic UI 7.1 MagicOS 10
OS updates — 7 years
Security updates — 7 years

Sound

Sound specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 5 Lite Honor Magic 8 Pro
FM radio No No
Headphone audio jack No No
Speakers Mono Stereo
Dolby Atmos — No

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