Performance
Under the hood, the Mate 8 runs on Huawei’s Kirin 950 chipset with a power-efficient 16 nm architecture. This octa-core processor comprises four Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores, balancing speed and energy efficiency. Paired with the Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, the device handles graphics-intensive tasks with relative ease. It shipped with Android 6.0 Marshmallow and could be upgraded to 7.0 Nougat, supported by Huawei’s EMUI 4 skin, which provides unique customizations over stock Android. The phone offers different models for storage and RAM: 32GB/3GB RAM, 64GB/4GB RAM, and 128GB/4GB RAM, with a microSD slot using the shared SIM slot for expandable storage.