Coming to the performance front, the P10 and the P10 Plus are powered by the in house Kirin 960 chipset. The main processor within the chipset consists of a quad-core Cortex-A73 cluster clocked at 2.4GHz, plus a quad-core array of the familiar Cortex-A53 cores, clocked at 1.8GHz. The Cortex-A73s boast a 30% power efficiency compared to the previous A72 design, while also promising improved performance. While this sounds and looks good on paper, the processor is still not among the best in the market. It is only a matter of time before Snapdragon comes out with their new iteration and the Kirin will get blown out of the water. Benchmark scores also show that the Kirin does get a bit outpaced by the likes of the Apple hurricane cores.
Overall, in the performance department, the P10 Plus is a strong performer but there is still a lot of work to be done as far as their in house chipset is concerned. Samsung turned the Exynos fortunes around and today it is one of the best chipsets around. Huawei needs that sort of quantum leap if they are to stay relevant in the performance department.
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The Leica branding has been adorning the best of the best Huawei’s devices to date and the P10 and the P10 Plus take the legacy forward in some style.The basic formula remains the same – a 20MP monochrome sensor and a 12MP RGB one, the latter complete with OIS. The difference comes down to the lens. The P10 plus ups the ante with a brighter and faster, f/1.8 Leica SUMMILUX. In theory, the P10 Plus should give you higher quality photos with better corner details and also a better pronounced bokeh effect.
All in all, the P10 Plus uses the extra room to capture at a better exposition than the P10, but at a lower ISO. This results in less noise and the monochrome shots had better exposed shadows due to its wider dynamic range. All the samples have come out with vibrant colours, excellent and abundant detail and textures were rendered in a very natural way.
