56 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44
REVIEW
Performance
Running the 2.35GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821,
Adreno 530 GPU and 6GB of RAM, the original Mi
Mix was a force to be reckoned with. Swapping in
that 14nm chip with the 10nm Snapdragon 835, also
running at 2.35GHz and paired with 6GB of memory,
the Mi Mix 2 now makes that phone look slow. The
Snapdragon 835 makes huge savings on battery life,
and significantly improves performance.
The Mi Mix 2 has performance as good as anything
we’ve seen this year, bar the iPhone 8, and in fact its
full-HD display means that it doesn’t have to push so
hard in our on screen graphics tests.
We’ve collated the results of our benchmarks
for various comparable phones in the chart below,
but the Mi Mix 2 is right up there with the likes ofGeekbench 4