Honor exec suggests Magic V4 will beat Find N5 in terms of performance

Oppo's Find N5 is currently the thinnest foldable phone on the market, but its throne could be challenged by the Honor Magic V4. Recent reports have suggested that Honor's upcoming folding smartphone could be 8.9 mm or thinner. To compare, the Find N5 measures as thin as 8.93 mm when folded.

While there's no official word on the thickness of the Honor Magic V4, Li Kun, Honor's General Manager of Flagship Smartphone Product line, hinted that the upcoming foldable phone will feature a regular Snapdragon 8 Elite with an 8-core CPU. To compare, the Find N5 sports the toned-down 7-core variant.

With the "full-blooded" or unmodified Snapdragon 8 Elite, the Magic V4 should offer marginally better performance than the Find N5. To fill you in, per the tests carried out by Digital Trends, the 7-core variant of the SoC inside the new Oppo foldable performs noticeably worse than the regular SoC on Geekbench.

More specifically, in the test carried out by the outlet, the 7-core Snapdragon 8 Elite had 2,885 points in single-core and 7,978 in multi-core. To compare, the regular SoC inside the OnePlus 13 got 3,107 in single-core and 9,213 in multi-core tests. The GPU scores of the cut-down version of the SoC tell the same story.

To be specific, the Oppo Find N5 got 13,875 points in Digital Trend's Geekbench GPU test, while the OnePlus 13 had 18,065 points. Of course, given that Honor is seemingly aiming to take over Oppo's crown by making the Magic V4 thinner than Fold N5, it'll be interesting to see how good the Magic V4's cooling setup is (Black Shark FunCooler 4 Pro curr. $29.99 on Amazon). Without an advanced setup, the unmodified Snapdragon 8 Elite will likely throttle a lot in heavy loads.