Top 20 phones of H1 of 2019

14 July 2019
The first six months of the year are done - here are the most popular phones.

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  • Anonymous
  • gJt
  • 14 Jul 2019

Seems people dont care MUI is adware OS.

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    • Anonymous
    • XFG
    • 14 Jul 2019

    Kangal, 14 Jul 2019Cheers! Here's another present. I've been aggregating the ... moreYou missed samsung's newest chips exynos 7904 7884 and 9610
    For sd450, 625 and 632 why did they got different scores for gpu performance? They have the same gpu
    The gpu performance of sd 670 should be close to sd 710 and better than sd660
    Helio p35's gpu performance us too much it should get lower score. But it should get better score for the cpu multi core

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      • nC1
      • 14 Jul 2019

      Lavialegon , 14 Jul 2019Sadly there are only Samsung and china brands, So !

        [deleted post]Cheers!
        Here's another present. I've been aggregating the performance of chipsets for a while now, it's a handy tool to reference roughly where a device would be.

        WARNING LONG POST !!!

        PS: Not sure what is up with the commenting system here, I've tried my best to keep it clean and legible, but it keeps breaking format and there's random characters that keep popping up like (Â).

        Position - Chipset Name….. CPU single-core / CPU multi-thread / GPU performance
        (post-2011)
        99 - XXXXX............................. ???? / ???? / ????
        86 - XXXXX............................. ???? / ???? / ????
        85 - Tegra 3............................… 300 / 1,100 / 7,000
        84 - Exynos 4412...…................ 400 / 1,100 / 6,000
        83 - QSD 400...…....................... 500 / 1,600 / 11,000 (Krait-200 S4 Pro)
        82 - QSD 600...…....................... 600 / 2,000 / 12,000
        81 - Apple A6 (?)...…................. 700 / 1,300 / 8,000

        79 - Helio P20...…...................... 800 / 3,400 / 11,000
        78 - Helio P22........................…. 800 / 3,500 / 11,000
        77 - QSD 429...…........................ 800 / 3,600 / 11,000
        76 - QSD 439..........................…. 800 / 3,700 / 11,000
        75 - QSD 450...…........................ 800 / 3,700 / 12,000
        74 - Helio P23.........................… 800 / 3,800 / 12,000
        73 - Helio P25..........................… 800 / 3,800 / 14,000
        72 - QSD 625...…........................ 800 / 3,900 / 13,000
        71 - Helio P30..........................… 900 / 3,900 / 15,000
        70 - QSD 626............................… 900 / 4,200 / 14,000
        69 - Helio P35...…....................... 900 / 3,900 / 17,000
        68 - QSD 630............................… 900 / 4,300 / 15,000

        66- Exynos 5420......................… 900 / 2,700 / 13,000
        65 - Exynos 5430...….................. 900 / 2,900 / 14,000
        64 - QSD 800...…...................... 1,000 / 2,800 / 13,000
        63 - RK 3288.........................… 1,100 / 2,800 / 15,000
        62 - QSD 801...…...................... 1,100 / 3,000 / 15,000
        61 - Tegra 4...…........................ 1,100 / 2,900 / 17,000
        60 - QSD 808 (?).........….......... 1,300 / 3,600 / 14,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        59 - QSD 810 (?)...…................ 1,300 / 4,500 / 19,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        58 - QSD 805.......................….. 1,200 / 3,400 / 18,000
        57 - QSD 632...…...................... 1,200 / 4,400 / 16,000

        55 - Apple A7 (?)...................… 1,500 / 2,900 / 12,000
        54 - Exynos 5433...…............... 1,200 / 4,200 / 16,000
        53 - Tegra K1-32bit (?)..........… 1,200 / 4,000 / 19,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        52 - QSD 650...…...................... 1,400 / 3,100 / 12,000
        51 - Helio X20...….................... 1,500 / 4,500 / 10,000
        50 - Apple A8 (?)...…................ 1,600 / 3,100 / 14,000

        48 - Tegra K1-Denver (?)...….... 1,900 / 4,100 / 19,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        47 - RK 3399 (?)...…................. 1,400 / 3,700 / 11,000
        46 - QSD 652...…...................... 1,400 / 4,600 / 12,000
        45 - QSD 653...…...................... 1,400 / 4,700 / 13,000
        44 - Exynos 7420...............….... 1,300 / 4,500 / 18,000
        43 - Tegra X1 (?)...…................. 1,400 / 4,700 / 24,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        42 - Helio X23...…..................... 1,600 / 4,500 / 11,000
        41 - Helio X25...…..................... 1,700 / 4,500 / 11,000
        40 - Helio X27........................… 1,700 / 4,600 / 12,000
        39 - Exynos 7885...…................ 1,500 / 4,500 / 15,000

        37 - QSD 636...…........................ 1,400 / 5,000 / 17,000
        36 - Kirin 710.......................... 1,600 / 5,400 / 16,000
        35 - QSD 665.......................... 1,600 / 5,300 / 17,000
        34 - QSD 670...…........................ 1,700 / 5,300 / 18,000
        33 - QSD 660...…........................ 1,600 / 5,700 / 18,000
        32 - QSD 820...........................… 1,700 / 4,300 / 20,000 (underclocked)

        30 - Kirin 950...........................… 1,700 / 5,200 / 16,000
        29 - Helio P60...…....................... 1,500 / 5,700 / 18,000
        28 - Kirin 955...........................… 1,700 / 5,300 / 17,000
        27 - Helio P70..........................… 1,600 / 5,900 / 18,000
        26 - Helio X30.........................…. 2,000 / 5,600 / 15,000
        25 - QSD 675............................… 1,900 / 5,800 / 19,000
        24 - QSD 710............................… 2,000 / 5,700 / 20,000
        23 - QSD 712...…......................... 2,000 / 5,800 / 21,000
        22 - QSD 821............…................ 2,100 / 4,500 / 23,000 (overclocked)
        21 - Apple A9 (?).....................…. 2,300 / 4,700 / 17,000

        19 - QSD 730............................ 2,000 / 5,800 / 21,000
        18 - Exynos 8890...…................... 1,900 / 6,000 / 19,000
        17 - Kirin 960............................…. 1,900 / 6,400 / 18,000
        16 - Helio P90...........................… 1,900 / 6,000 / 20,000
        15 - Kirin 810............................. 2,200 / 6,700 / 22,000
        13 - Exynos 8895...…................... 2,100 / 6,800 / 24,000
        12 - Kirin 970...….......................... 2,000 / 6,900 / 24,000
        11 - QSD 835...….......................... 2,100 / 7,000 / 28,000
        10 - Exynos 9810...…................... 3,600 / 8,800 / 30,000 (unsustainable thermals)
        9 - Exynos 9820.........................… 4,500 / 9,900 / 32,000 (unsustainable thermals)

        7 - Apple A10 (?)........................… 3,400 / 6,300 / 24,000
        6 - QSD 845................................… 2,500 / 8,900 / 34,000
        5 - Kirin 980...…........................... 3,200 / 10,000 / 31,000
        4 - QSD 855..............................… 3,500 / 12,000 / 38,000

        2 - Apple A11 (?)...….................... 4,100 / 10,000 / 28,000
        1 - Apple A12 (?).......................… 4,800 / 12,000 / 32,000
        (pre-2020)

        *A balanced SoC is most desired, with importance given to IPC, then Total CPU, and finally Graphical Powress
        *thermals and battery life taken into account when positioning
        *scores are based on averages, and rounded up/down, due to variance of handsets
        *some scores are not properly available (?), but an estimate is provided.

        PS: may update in future to include more SoC's (eg AMLogic, Allwinner, iPad SoC's, and obscure Snapdragon SoC's like the dreaded QSD 617). Please feel free to ask for any specific SoC's you are interested in seeing listed. Cheers!

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          • Anonymous
          • KZK
          • 14 Jul 2019

          Lavialegon , 14 Jul 2019Sadly there are only Samsung and china brands, With one Finnish brand

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            • Lakshya pandey
            • t1{
            • 14 Jul 2019

            Nice artical! I'm using redmi note 7.

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              • Anonymous
              • nxB
              • 14 Jul 2019

              The entire A lineup should be omitted from this article. Idk why people are still buying these when there are absolutely more functional and valuable offers like Redmi k20. And for S series, there's nothing left to say when it lags behind in battery and camera, not to mention the ugly punch hole display :)

                A50 must be the first one ..........

                  Kangal, 14 Jul 2019I guess this post is based on "Top 20 phones searched on GS... moreOne of the few sensible and unbiased comment i haven't often seen here..Hats off!











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                    • Anonymous
                    • 8pc
                    • 14 Jul 2019

                    Completely true, A50 is in my opinion the best!

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                      • Lavialegon
                      • 8mb
                      • 14 Jul 2019

                      Sadly there are only Samsung and china brands,

                        I guess this post is based on "Top 20 phones searched on GSMArena". They're definitely not the Best Phones of 2019 or something like that. The ones that are, it's:

                        Top 2019 flagship/luxury phones to consider:
                        Large: Samsung S10+
                        Medium: LG G8
                        Small: Samsung S10e
                        Honorable mention: OnePlus 7 Pro

                        Top 2019 Upper-Midrange phones to consider:
                        Large: Nubia RedMagic 3
                        Medium: Lenovo Z6 Pro
                        Small: Huawei P30
                        Honorable mention: ASUS ZenFone 6

                        Top 2019 Midrange phones to consider:
                        Large: Vivo Z5x
                        Medium: Redmi K20
                        Small: Meizu 16xs
                        Honorable mention: Nokia X71

                        Top 2019 Low-end phones to consider:
                        ...simply too many for me to go through, sorry : (

                        Top 2019 Entry grade phones:
                        ...landfill !!

                        PS: You can divide the Top 20 phones, neatly into 5 Categories of price, then split them up into 4 Options based on Size/Novelty.

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                          • MYi
                          • 14 Jul 2019

                          MedriVia, 14 Jul 2019Wow, 80% of them are notched phones. xDI always disliked notches (and I still do). However, as soon as I got my first phone with a notch (Xiaomi Mi9), I realized that they are relatively easy to ignore.
                          What bothers me far more than the notch, is the bezel-less display which sometimes makes it very hard to work with the phone. In addition, the taller our phones get, the more we realize that a major UI redesign is more than overdue.

                            Wow, 80% of them are notched phones. xD

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