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Honor 50 vs Honor 90

53 out of 100
Honor 50
VS
60 out of 100
Honor 90
Honor 50
Honor 90

Here we compared two mid-range smartphones: the 6.57-inch Honor 50 (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G) that was released on June 16, 2021, against the Honor 90, which is powered by Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Accelerated Edition and came out 2 years after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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  1. Differences
  2. Review
  3. Specs
  4. Benchmarks
  5. Battery life
  6. Camera
  7. Comments

Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Honor 50
  • Shows 20% longer battery life (23:01 vs 19:10 hours)
Reasons to consider the Honor 90
  • Delivers 58% higher peak brightness (1170 against 742 nits)
  • Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
  • Comes with 700 mAh larger battery capacity: 5000 vs 4300 mAh
  • Has 33% more RAM: 8GB versus 6GB
  • More recent OS version: Android 14 versus 13
  • 11% higher pixel density (435 vs 392 PPI)
  • The phone is 2 years newer
  • The front-facing camera can record video at 4K
  • Ready for eSIM technology

Review

Evaluation of Honor 50 and Honor 90 crucial features
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 / 128 GB
VS
8 / 256 GB
14.3
(Bad)
Value Index
19.5
(Bad)

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Phone:
Honor 50
vs
Honor 90

Display

Type OLED AMOLED
Size 6.57 inches 6.7 inches
Resolution 1080 x 2340 pixels 1200 x 2664 pixels
Aspect ratio 19.5:9 19.98:9
PPI 392 ppi 435 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate No Yes (60-120 Hz)
Max rated brightness 525 nits 1000 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 750 nits 1600 nits
HDR support Yes, HDR10 Yes, HDR10+
Touch sampling rate 300 Hz -
Screen protection Tempered glass Tempered glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.7% 90.4%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming		 - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
Display tests
RGB color space 100% 99.7%
PWM 120 Hz 728 Hz
Response time 2.4 ms 1 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
Honor 50
742 nits
Honor 90 +58%
1170 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 160 mm (6.3 inches) 161.9 mm (6.37 inches)
Width 73.8 mm (2.91 inches) 74.1 mm (2.92 inches)
Thickness 7.8 mm (0.31 inches) 7.8 mm (0.31 inches)
Weight 175 g (6.17 oz) 183 g (6.46 oz)
Waterproof No No
Rear material Glass Plastic
Frame material Plastic Plastic
Colors White, Black, Green, Red Black, Silver, Blue, Green
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Screen-to-body ratio
Honor 50
89.7%
Honor 90 +1%
90.4%

Performance

Chipset specifications of Honor 50 and Honor 90
SoC
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Accelerated Edition
Max clock 2400 MHz 2500 MHz
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 4) 8 (1 + 3 + 4)
Architecture - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
- 3 cores at 2.4 GHz: Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
- 1 core at 2.4 GHz: Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)		 - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Cortex-A510
- 3 cores at 2.36 GHz: Cortex-A710
- 1 core at 2.4 GHz: Cortex-A710
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Lithography process 6 nanometers 4 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Hexagon
GPU
Graphics Adreno 642L Adreno 644
GPU shading units 512 768
GPU clock 550 MHz 443 MHz
FLOPS ~563.2 GFLOPS ~680.4 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Honor 50 and Honor 90
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Honor 50
1025
Honor 90 +8%
1110
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Honor 50 +1%
3011
Honor 90
2968
Compute Score (GPU)
Honor 50
2132
Honor 90 +39%
2963
Compute Score (GPU) 2132 2963
Single-core score 1025 1110
Multi-core score 3011 2968
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
Honor 50
800677
Honor 90 +9%
873573
CPU 307838 324311
GPU 99708 119050
Memory 157428 174797
UX 235703 255415
Total score 800677 873573
Samples [2 tests] [8 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
276
Stability - 98%
Graphics test - 2 FPS
Graphics score - 276
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
857
Graphics test - 5 FPS
Graphics score - 857
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
11977
Web score - 10439
Video editing - 7300
Photo editing - 27068
Data manipulation - 9185
Writing score - 11979
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Honor 50
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-20 (Carlos)AnTuTu 12858274
📘 2026-04-08 (Dako086)AnTuTu 11800677
📘 2025-11-23 -> YoyskaAnTuTu 11751019
📘 2024-05-18 (hailoon)Geekbench 6 GPU2132
📘 2024-05-18 (hailoon)Geekbench 6 CPU1025 / 3011
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Honor 90
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-06 (STEVEN MP)AnTuTu 11920942
📘 2026-08-23 (Zamorokk)AnTuTu 11886048
📘 2026-05-10 (Damon)AnTuTu 11805921
📘 2026-04-01 (MrVolt)AnTuTu 11836065
📘 2026-02-19 (Zhiger)AnTuTu 11876570
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Memory

RAM
RAM size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory clock 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Channels 2 2
Storage
Storage size 128 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
Memory card No No

Software

Operating system Android 11 (Can be upgraded to Android 13) Android 13 (Can be upgraded to Android 14)
ROM Magic UI 7.1 MagicOS 8.0
OS size 21 GB 23 GB

Battery

Capacity 4300 mAh 5000 mAh
Max charge power 66 W 66 W
Battery type Li-Po Li-Po
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging No No
Reverse charging No Yes
Fast charging Yes (61% in 30 min) Yes (80% in 35 min)
Full charging time 0:54 hr 1:12 hr
Battery life tests
Web browsing 09:06 hr 08:26 hr
Watching video 12:48 hr 11:56 hr
Gaming 05:24 hr 04:40 hr
Standby 118 hr 84 hr
General battery life
Honor 50 +20%
23:01 hr
Honor 90
19:10 hr
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Main camera

Matrix 108 megapixels 200 megapixels
Image resolution 12032 x 9024 16256 x 12192
Zoom Digital Digital
Flash LED Dual LED
Stabilization Digital Digital
8K video recording No No
4K video recording Up to 30FPS Up to 30FPS
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
Slow motion 240 FPS (720p) 960 FPS (720p)
Angle of widest lens 120° 112°
Lenses 1) Standard: 108 MP
2) Ultrawide: 8 MP
3) Macro: 2 MP
4) Depth: 2 MP
1) Standard: 200 MP
2) Ultrawide: 12 MP
3) Depth: 2 MP
Camera features - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode		 - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
Standard lens
Image resolution 108 MP 200 MP
Aperture f/1.9 f/1.9
Sensor Samsung S5KHM2 Samsung ISOCELL HP3
Sensor size 1/1.52" (≈ 0.66 inch) 1/1.4" (≈ 0.71 inch)
Pixel size 0.7 micron 0.56 micron
Autofocus Phase autofocus Phase autofocus
Stabilization Digital Digital
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 8 MP 12 MP
Aperture f/2.4 f/2.2
Focal length 17 mm -
Sensor size 1/4" (≈ 0.25 inch) -
Pixel size - 1.12 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital
Macro lens
Image resolution 2 MP -
Aperture f/2.4 -
Stabilization Digital -

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
128
Video quality
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
126
Generic main camera score
Honor 50
n/a
Honor 90
122
Bokeh - 60
Preview - 64
Zoom - 86
Samples - Photo samples of Honor 90 from DxOMark

Selfie camera

Megapixels 32 megapixels 50 megapixels
Image resolution 6528 x 4896 8160 x 6112
Aperture f/2.2 -
Focal length 22 mm -
Sensor Samsung JD1 -
Sensor size 1/3.14" (≈ 0.32 inch) -
Autofocus No -
Stabilization Digital -
Video resolution 1080p (Full HD) at 60 FPS 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No No

Connectivity

Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display		 - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.2
Bluetooth features LE, A2DP LE
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 2 2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG		 - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port No No
Network
Number of SIM* 2 2
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
eSIM support* No Yes
Hybrid slot No No
LTE Cat* 18 18
5G support Yes Yes

Sound

Speakers Mono Mono
Headphone audio jack No No
FM radio No No
Dolby Atmos No No
Speakers test
Max loudness
Honor 50 +2%
92.7 dB
Honor 90
91.1 dB

Other

Category Mid-range Mid-range
Announced June 2021 May 2023
Release date June 2021 June 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $350 $499
Successor - - Honor 500 Pro
Sensors - Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint		 - Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
Bundled charger Yes, 66 W Yes, 66 W
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.

Conclusion

After analyzing all the data, we think that the Honor 90 is definitely a better buy.

Cast your vote

So, which phone would you choose?
116 (45.1%)
141 (54.9%)
Total votes: 257

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