Honor Magic 8 Pro vs Huawei P50 Pro

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

Honor Magic 8 Pro leads overall with a score of 94/100 compared to Huawei P50 Pro (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Gaming 97.0 Excellent WINNER 27.0 Poor
NanoReview Score 94.0 Excellent WINNER 62.0 Average
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 52.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

Battery

Battery specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Battery cycles 1600 cycles
Battery type Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) Li-Po
Bypass charging Yes
Capacity 7200 mAh 4360 mAh
Fast charging Yes (81% in 30 min) Yes (73% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:40 hr 0:50 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) Yes (50 W)

Benchmarks

Benchmarks specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
CPU 1207069 452008
Compute Score (GPU) 27643
Data manipulation 17118
GPU 1513881 204787
Graphics score 2979 505
Graphics test 22 FPS 4 FPS
Memory 461553 197032
Multi-core score 10610 3644
Photo editing 40028
Section 1 56 FPS
Section 2 46 FPS
Section 3 40 FPS
Single-core score 3568 1369
Total score 3966144 1141829
UX 783641 288002
Video editing 8214
Web score 22533
Writing score 30415
Stability 57%

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth features LE LE, A2DP
Bluetooth version 6.0 5.2
DisplayPort Yes, DP 1.2
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Hybrid slot No Yes
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- USB-Host 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 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
eSIM support* Yes No
2G network GSM 2/3/5/8 (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
3G network WCDMA 1/2/4/5/6/8/19
4G network LTE 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/17/18/19/20/26/28/32/66
LTE Cat* 20

Design and build

Design and build specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Advanced cooling Vapor chamber
Colors White, Black, Gold, Green White, Black, Gold, Blue, Pink
Drop resistance Very good (B) · 180 drops
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Frame material Metal Metal
Height 161.15 mm (6.34 inches) 158.8 mm (6.25 inches)
Rear material Glass Glass
Repairability Good (3.41/5)
Thickness 8.32 mm (0.33 inches) 8.5 mm (0.33 inches)
Waterproof IP69 IP68
Weight 219 g (7.72 oz) 195 g (6.88 oz)
Width 75 mm (2.95 inches) 72.8 mm (2.87 inches)

Display

Display specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (1-120 Hz) Yes (60-120 Hz)
Aspect ratio 20:9 20:9
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 550 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 6000 nits 850 nits
PPI 458 ppi 450 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Resolution 1256 x 2808 pixels 1228 x 2700 pixels
Screen protection Giant Rhino Glass Tempered glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.9% 91%
Size 6.71 inches 6.6 inches
Type OLED OLED
Contrast ∞ Infinity
PWM 60 Hz
RGB color space 100%
Response time 1 ms
Touch sampling rate 300 Hz

DxOMark main camera tests

DxOMark main camera tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Bokeh 165 80
Samples Photo samples of Honor Magic 8 Pro from DxOMark Photo samples of Huawei P50 Pro from DxOMark
Preview 53

Main camera

Main camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
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°
Aperture f/1.6 f/1.8
Autofocus Laser autofocus Laser autofocus
Camera features - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support - Bokeh mode- Pro mode- RAW support
Flash LED Dual LED
Focal length 23 mm 23 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: 64 MP3) Ultrawide: 13 MP4) Monochrome: 40 MP
Matrix 50 megapixels 50 megapixels
Pixel size 1.2 micron 1 micron
Sensor Omnivision OV50H Omnivision OV50A
Sensor size 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch) 1/1.5" (≈ 0.67 inch)
Slow motion 240 FPS (1080p) 960 FPS (1080p)
Stabilization Optical Optical
Zoom Optical, 3.7x Optical, 3.5x

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Channels 4 2
Memory card No Nano Memory
Memory clock 5300 MHz 2750 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5
RAM size 12 GB 8 GB
Storage size 256 GB 128 GB
Storage type UFS 4.1 UFS 3.1
Memory card max size Up to 256 GB

Other

Other specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Announced October 2025 July 2021
Bundled charger Yes, 120 W
Category Flagship Flagship
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $1000
Release date October 2025 August 2021
Sensors - Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Face recognition sensor- Fingerprint - Barometer- Proximity sensor- Gyroscope- Accelerometer- Ambient light sensor- Compass- Fingerprint
Successor -Huawei Pura 80 Pro

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Architecture - 6 cores at 3.63 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Performance- 2 cores at 4.61 GHz: Oryon Gen 3 Prime - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)- 3 cores at 2.42 GHz: Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)- 1 core at 2.84 GHz: Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
CPU cores 8 (2 + 6) 8 (1 + 3 + 4)
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 4G
FLOPS ~3686.4 GFLOPS ~1290.2 GFLOPS
GPU clock 1200 MHz 840 MHz
GPU shading units 1536 768
Graphics Adreno 840 Adreno 660
L3 cache 12 MB 4 MB
Lithography process 3 nanometers 5 nanometers
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Max clock 4610 MHz 2840 MHz
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon 780

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
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
📘 2025-09-09(SkDenji) AnTuTu
📘 2025-12-19->DenislavAntimov CPU Throttle
📘 2026-01-05(ThomasPlays) AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-23(Denislav_Antimov) AnTuTu

Selfie camera

Selfie camera specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) Yes No
Megapixels 50 megapixels 13 megapixels
Video resolution 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS
Photo 144
Video 146

Software

Software specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
OS updates 7 years
Operating system Android 16 Android 11
ROM MagicOS 10 HarmonyOS 2.0
Security updates 7 years
OS size 19.4 GB

Sound

Sound specifications comparison
Specification Honor Magic 8 Pro Huawei P50 Pro
Dolby Atmos No Yes
FM radio No No
Headphone audio jack No No
Speakers Stereo Stereo

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