Xiaomi Mi 9 Claims 1st Place On AnTuTu’s List Of Best Performance Phones In February

Chinese software benchmarking tool Antutu just released a list of the top 10 smartphones that have the best performance in February. The three top smartphones in the list respectively belong to Xiaomi with the Xiaomi Mi 9, Lenovo with the Lenovo Z5 Pro GT, and Nubia with the gaming phone Nubia Red Magic Mars. It is worth noting that this list comprises specifically of phones that were benchmarked within February.

The newly-released Mi 9 is one of the latest addition to Xiaomi’s mobile portfolio that claims the top spot in the ranking. 371,849 points is the benchmarking score of the Xiaomi Mi 9 with the help of the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 855 SoC. The Lenovo Z5 Pro GT is also backed by the same SoC and it got 353,469 points which help it sit on the 2nd rank.

The third position belongs to the gaming smartphone, Nubia Red Magic Mars, which got 320,763 points with the Snapdragon 845 SoC. The four following spots all belong to smartphones that are powered by Huawei’s latest Kirin 980 SoC. The Huawei Mate 20, which was just awarded the best smartphone of the year by GSM, is placed in the 4th spot with 306,984 points. The three following places are Honor View 20 with 306,762 points, Huawei Mate 20 X with 304,325 points and Honor Magic 2 with 301,442 points.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

The last three positions are awarded to two gaming phones Asus ROG Phone (297,953 points), Xiaomi Black Shark Helo (297,473 points), and Transparent Edition of the Xiaomi Mi 8 (296,953 points), all of which are backed by a Snapdragon 845 SoC.

You may wonder why the latest three Galaxy S10 flagship phones are not in the list even though they were also launched in the same month. It is because they have not come to China yet. They are said to launch in the Chinese market on 8 March. Therefore, they should feature in the Antutu’s best performance phone for March.