Honor 9X to launch on July 23, packed with powerful 7nm Kirin 810!

In China, Honor confirmed that the follow-up to the 8X last year is arriving on July 23.

With Kirin 810 inside

Dubbed as the Honor 9X, the company revealed that it will be powered by the newly announced Kirin 810 processor.

A mid-ranger with pretty powerful chip soon

Kirin 810 is the same chip found with the new Nova 5 phone by Huawei. Kirin 810 is the first mid-range chip based on the flagship 7nm manufacturing process.

It uses 2x Cortex-A76 clocked at 2.27GHz and 6 Cortex-A55 cores with a lower 1.88GHz clock speed. It also goes with the Mali-G52 MP6 GPU with a 162 percent faster performance than Kirin 710 and Huawei's Da Vinci Architecture based on Rubik’s Cube Quantitative Stereo Arithmetic Unit.

Based on initial benchmarks, Kirin 810 is a chip with faster performance than Snapdragon 730. It also goes with a higher AI score than the flagship Snapdragon 855 and MediaTek's mid-range Helio P90.

Related: Huawei Nova 5 with Kirin 810 bested Snapdragon 730's AnTuTu score

Other than that, we do not know the rest of the missing details yet.

Are you guys excited? Is this proper Honor 8X upgrade?

See also: HONOR 9X and 9X Pro announced with all-screen design, pop-up cam, 7nm Kirin 810!

Source: Weibo