Honor Magic 8 Pro vs Honor Magic V2

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

Honor Magic 8 Pro leads overall with a score of 94/100 compared to Honor Magic V2 (67/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Honor Magic 8 Pro
Honor

Honor Magic 8 Pro

94/100
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Honor Magic V2
Honor

Honor Magic V2

67/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Gaming 97.0 Excellent WINNER 47.0 Poor
NanoReview Score 94.0 Excellent WINNER 67.0 Average
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 72.0 Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Battery cycles 1600 cycles —
Battery type Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) Silicon-Carbon (Si/C)
Bypass charging Yes —
Capacity 7200 mAh 5000 mAh
Fast charging Yes (81% in 30 min) Yes (50% in 20 min)
Full charging time 0:40 hr 0:56 hr
Gaming 08:32 hr —
Max charge power 120 W 66 W
Replaceable No No
Reverse charging Yes, (wireless) Yes
Standby 116 hr —
Watching video 24:12 hr —
Web browsing 14:24 hr —
Wireless charging Yes (80 W) No

Benchmarks

Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
CPU 1207069 564533
Compute Score (GPU) 27643 —
Data manipulation 17118 —
GPU 1513881 433857
Graphics score 2979 1069
Graphics test 22 FPS 8 FPS
Memory 461553 325835
Multi-core score 10610 4708
Photo editing 40028 —
Section 1 56 FPS 24 FPS
Section 2 46 FPS 21 FPS
Section 3 40 FPS 18 FPS
Single-core score 3568 1938
Total score 3966144 1738135
UX 783641 413910
Video editing 8214 —
Web score 22533 —
Writing score 30415 —
Stability — 46%

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth features LE LE
Bluetooth version 6.0 5.3
DisplayPort Yes, DP 1.2 Yes, DP 1.2
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Hybrid slot No No
Infrared port Yes Yes
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 3.2 3.1
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 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
eSIM support* Yes No
LTE Cat* — 20

Design and build

Design and build specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Advanced cooling Vapor chamber Vapor chamber
Colors White, Black, Gold, Green Black, Gold, Purple
Drop resistance Very good (B) · 180 drops —
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-button
Frame material Metal Metal
Height 161.15 mm (6.34 inches) 156.7 mm (6.17 inches)
Rear material Glass Glass
Repairability Good (3.41/5) —
Thickness 8.32 mm (0.33 inches) 4.7 mm (0.19 inches)
Waterproof IP69 No
Weight 219 g (7.72 oz) 237 g (8.36 oz)
Width 75 mm (2.95 inches) 145.4 mm (5.72 inches)

Display

Display specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (1-120 Hz) Yes
Aspect ratio 20:9 9.78:9
Display features - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming - DCI-P3- Always-On Display- DC Dimming
HDR support Yes, Dolby Vision Yes, HDR10+
Max rated brightness 1800 nits 600 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 6000 nits 1600 nits
PPI 458 ppi 402 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Resolution 1256 x 2808 pixels 2156 x 2344 pixels
Screen protection Giant Rhino Glass Tempered glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.9% 88.5%
Size 6.71 inches 7.92 inches
Type OLED OLED
Contrast — ∞ Infinity
PWM — 2272 Hz
RGB color space — 99.4%
Response time — 2 ms
Touch sampling rate — 240 Hz

DxOMark main camera tests

DxOMark main camera tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Bokeh 165 —
Samples Photo samples of Honor Magic 8 Pro from DxOMark —

Main camera

Main camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
4K video recording Up to 120FPS Up to 60FPS
8K video recording No No
Angle of widest lens 122° 122°
Aperture f/1.6 f/1.9
Autofocus Laser autofocus Laser autofocus
Camera features - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support
Flash LED LED
Focal length 23 mm 62 mm
Image resolution 8192 x 6144 8192 x 6144
Lenses 1) Standard: 50 MP2) Telephoto: 200 MP3) Ultrawide: 50 MP 1) Standard: 50 MP2) Telephoto: 20 MP3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Matrix 50 megapixels 50 megapixels
Pixel size 1.2 micron —
Sensor Omnivision OV50H Sony IMX866
Sensor size 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch) 1/1.49" (≈ 0.67 inch)
Slow motion 240 FPS (1080p) 60 FPS (1080p)
Stabilization Optical Optical
Zoom Optical, 3.7x Optical, 2.5x

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Channels 4 4
Memory card No No
Memory clock 5300 MHz 4200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
RAM size 12 GB 16 GB
Storage size 256 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 4.1 UFS 4.0

Other

Other specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Announced October 2025 July 2023
Bundled charger Yes, 120 W Yes, 66 W
Category Flagship Flagship
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $1599
Release date October 2025 July 2023
Sensors - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Face recognition sensor- Fingerprint - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Fingerprint
Successor — -Honor Magic V5

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Architecture - 6 cores at 3.63 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Performance- 2 cores at 4.61 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Prime - 3 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A510- 2 cores at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-A710- 2 cores at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-A715- 1 core at 3.2 GHz: Cortex-X3
CPU cores 8 (2 + 6) 8 (1 + 2 + 2 + 3)
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
FLOPS ~3686.4 GFLOPS ~2089 GFLOPS
GPU clock 1200 MHz 680 MHz
GPU shading units 1536 1536
Graphics Adreno 840 Adreno 740
L3 cache 12 MB 8 MB
Lithography process 3 nanometers 4 nanometers
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max clock 4610 MHz 3360 MHz
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 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 —
📘 2025-09-28(Polar) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-12-08(Rocky) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-22->Senkanoko — AnTuTu

Selfie camera

Selfie camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) Yes No
Megapixels 50 megapixels 16 megapixels
Video resolution 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS

Software

Software specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
OS updates 7 years —
Operating system Android 16 Android 13 (Can be upgraded to Android 16)
ROM MagicOS 10 MagicOS 10
Security updates 7 years —
OS size — 26.2 GB

Sound

Sound specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Honor Magic V2
Dolby Atmos No No
FM radio No No
Headphone audio jack No No
Speakers Stereo Stereo

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