Performance
Under the hood, the Huawei P9 Plus is powered by the Kirin 955 chipset, featuring an octa-core CPU with four Cortex-A72 cores running at 2.5 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.8 GHz. This configuration provided robust performance for the device’s time, backed by a Mali-T880 MP4 GPU. Initially launched with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the phone is upgradable to Android 7.0 Nougat skinned with EMUI 5, offering an evolved software experience.