Huawei P60 Pro vs P30 Pro

70 out of 100
Huawei P60 Pro
VS
51 out of 100
Huawei P30 Pro

Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.67-inch Huawei P60 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1) that was released on March 23, 2023, against the Huawei P30 Pro, which is powered by HiSilicon Kirin 980 and came out 4 years and 1 month before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Huawei P60 Pro
  • Higher display refresh rate – 120 Hz
  • 77% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1333K versus 751K)
  • Better camera quality (According to DxOMark rating)
  • Delivers 86% higher peak brightness (1126 against 605 nits)
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v5.2)
  • Supports higher wattage charging (88W versus 40W)
  • More recent OS version: Android 13 versus 10
  • Uses a faster type of memory: LPDDR5
  • Compatible with Wi-Fi 6 wireless networks
  • Stereo speakers
  • Has 33% more RAM: 8GB versus 6GB
  • 12% higher pixel density (444 vs 398 PPI)
  • The phone is 4 years and 1 month newer
Reasons to consider the Huawei P30 Pro
  • Shows 7% longer battery life (21:15 vs 19:49 hours)
  • The rear camera has a 5x optical zoom
  • Supports Dolby Atmos sound technology

Review

Evaluation of Huawei P60 Pro and P30 Pro 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
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Final comparison evaluation
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Value for money (Beta)

Should I update?
No 85% Yes
Yes, this is a clear and meaningful upgrade.
Updating from Huawei P30 Pro to Huawei P60 Pro is a clear step forward, and the improvements should be easy to notice.
Main improvements: camera, display, and performance.

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Phone:
vs

Display

Type OLED OLED
Size 6.67 inches 6.47 inches
Resolution 1220 x 2700 pixels 1080 x 2340 pixels
Aspect ratio 20:9 19.5:9
PPI 444 ppi 398 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 60 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes No
Max rated brightness 550 nits 570 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 1200 nits -
HDR support Yes, HDR10+ Yes, HDR10
Touch sampling rate 300 Hz -
Screen protection Kunlun Glass Tempered glass
Screen-to-body ratio 89.5% 88.6%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
Display tests
RGB color space 99.6% 99%
PWM 120 Hz 231 Hz
Response time 1 ms 3.6 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
P60 Pro +86%
1126 nits
605 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 161 mm (6.34 inches) 158 mm (6.22 inches)
Width 74.5 mm (2.93 inches) 73.4 mm (2.89 inches)
Thickness 8.3 mm (0.33 inches) 8.4 mm (0.33 inches)
Weight 200 g (7.05 oz) 192 g (6.77 oz)
Waterproof IP68 IP68
Advanced cooling - Vapor chamber
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Metal Metal
Colors White, Black, Green, Purple White, Black, Blue, Orange
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Screen-to-body ratio
P60 Pro +1%
89.5%
88.6%

Performance

Chipset specifications of Huawei P60 Pro and Huawei P30 Pro
SoC
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 HiSilicon Kirin 980
Max clock 3190 MHz 2600 MHz
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 4) 8 (2 + 2 + 4)
Architecture - 4 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A510
- 3 cores at 2.75 GHz: Cortex-A710
- 1 core at 3.2 GHz: Cortex-X2
- 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Cortex-A55
- 2 cores at 1.92 GHz: Cortex-A76
- 2 cores at 2.6 GHz: Cortex-A76
L3 cache 6 MB -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Lithography process 4 nanometers 7 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes
GPU
Graphics Adreno 730 Mali G76 MP10
GPU shading units 1024 240
GPU clock 900 MHz 720 MHz
FLOPS ~1843.2 GFLOPS ~345.6 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Huawei P60 Pro and Huawei P30 Pro
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
P60 Pro +96%
1816
927
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
P60 Pro +56%
4639
2978
Compute Score (GPU)
n/a
3750
Compute Score (GPU) - 3750
Single-core score 1816 927
Multi-core score 4639 2978
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
P60 Pro +77%
1333248
751826
CPU 528817 323300
GPU 225078 106985
Memory 243458 153206
UX 335895 168335
Total score 1333248 751826
Samples [4 tests] [12 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
854
n/a
Stability 55% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -
Graphics score 854 -
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
P60 Pro +308%
2756
676
Stability 44% 49%
Graphics test 16 FPS 4 FPS
Graphics score 2756 676
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
n/a
8638
Web score - 7533
Video editing - 5711
Photo editing - 14148
Data manipulation - 7454
Writing score - 10838

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Huawei P60 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-25 (Gog)AnTuTu 121527301
📘 2026-09-10 (spoonky)AnTuTu 121520938
📘 2026-08-17 (Pietro)AnTuTu 111333248
📘 2025-12-07 (Posshy)AnTuTu 111320073
📘 2025-10-14 -> fervistmodeAnTuTu 111333248
Huawei P30 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-28 (Adiit)AnTuTu 12919298
📘 2026-08-14 (Adiit)Geekbench 6 GPU4204
📘 2026-08-01 (Kiên 🐜)AnTuTu 11738484
📘 2026-05-16 (Absolute_Subzero)AnTuTu 11746551
📘 2026-05-01 (gay)AnTuTu 11756021

Memory

RAM
RAM size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory clock - 2133 MHz
Channels 4 2
Storage
Storage size 256 GB 128 GB
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Memory card Nano Memory Nano Memory
Memory card max size Up to 256 GB Up to 256 GB

Software

Operating system Android 13 Android 9.0 (Can be upgraded to Android 10)
ROM EMUI 13.1 EMUI 12
OS size - 13.4 GB

Battery

Capacity 4815 mAh 4200 mAh
Max charge power 88 W 40 W
Battery type Li-Po Li-Po
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging Yes (50 W) Yes (15 W)
Reverse charging Yes, (wireless) Yes, (wireless)
Fast charging Yes (58% in 15 min) Yes, SuperCharge (70% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:35 hr 1:05 hr
Battery life tests
Web browsing 08:26 hr 08:25 hr
Watching video 12:20 hr 13:36 hr
Gaming 05:27 hr 05:24 hr
Standby 88 hr 99 hr
General battery life
19:49 hr
P30 Pro +7%
21:15 hr

Main camera

Matrix 48 megapixels 40 megapixels
Image resolution 8000 x 6000 7360 x 4912
Zoom Optical, 3.5x Optical, 5x
Flash Dual LED Dual LED
Stabilization Optical Optical
8K video recording No No
4K video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 30FPS
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
Slow motion 960 FPS (1080p) 960 FPS (720p)
Angle of widest lens - 120°
Lenses 1) Standard: 48 MP
2) Telephoto: 48 MP
3) Ultrawide: 13 MP
1) Standard: 40 MP
2) Telephoto: 8 MP
3) Ultrawide: 20 MP
4) Depth
Camera features - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- RAW support
Standard lens
Image resolution 48 MP 40 MP
Aperture f/1.4 - 4.0 f/1.6
Focal length 25 mm 27 mm
Sensor Sony IMX888 Sony IMX650
Sensor size 1/1.4" (≈ 0.71 inch) 1/1.7" (≈ 0.59 inch)
Pixel size 1.17 micron 1 micron
Autofocus Laser autofocus Phase autofocus
Stabilization Optical Optical
Telephoto lens
Image resolution 48 MP 8 MP
Aperture f/2.1 f/3.4
Focal length 90 mm 125 mm
Sensor Omnivision OV64B -
Sensor size - 1/4" (≈ 0.25 inch)
Stabilization Optical Optical
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 13 MP 20 MP
Aperture f/2.2 f/2.2
Focal length 13 mm 16 mm
Sensor Sony IMX688 -
Sensor size - 1/2.7" (≈ 0.37 inch)
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
P60 Pro +34%
159
119
Video quality
P60 Pro +52%
147
97
Generic main camera score
P60 Pro +39%
156
112
Bokeh 80 -
Preview 75 -
Zoom 158 -
Samples Photo samples of Huawei P60 Pro from DxOMark Photo samples of Huawei P30 Pro from DxOMark

Selfie camera

Megapixels 13 megapixels 32 megapixels
Image resolution 4160 x 3120 6528 x 4896
Aperture f/2.4 f/2.0
Focal length - 29 mm
Sensor CMOS BSI CMOS
Sensor size - 1/2.8" (≈ 0.36 inch)
Pixel size 1.22 micron -
Autofocus No No
Stabilization Digital Digital
Video resolution 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No No
DxOMark front camera
n/a
118
Photo - 110
Video - 130

Connectivity

Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac)
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
- Dual Band
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
Bluetooth version 5.2 5
Bluetooth features LE LE, A2DP
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 3.1 3.1
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
DisplayPort Yes, DP 1.2 -
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port Yes Yes
Network
Number of SIM* 2 2
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
eSIM support* No No
Hybrid slot No No
LTE Cat* 20 21
5G support No No

Sound

Speakers Stereo Mono
Headphone audio jack No No
FM radio No No
Dolby Atmos No Yes
Speakers test
Max loudness
P60 Pro +2%
89.1 dB
87.5 dB

Other

Category Flagship Flagship
Announced March 2023 March 2019
Release date March 2023 May 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $1199 $1000
Successor - Huawei Pura 80 Pro - Huawei Pura 80 Pro
SAR (head) - 0.154 W/kg
SAR (body) - 0.63 W/kg
Sensors - Hall-effect sensor
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
- Hall-effect sensor
- Barometer
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
Bundled charger Yes, 88 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 Huawei P60 Pro is definitely a better buy.

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