MediaTek Dimensity 8500 surfaces on Geekbench with minimal performance upgrades
Honor has a slew of new devices lined up to launch. One of them will be the Honor Power 2, a direct successor to the Honor Power that debuted earlier in 2025. Said device now appears to have made its Geekbench debut with a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 onboard, showing off the chipset's details and performance chops in the process.
The device tested is listed with the identifier "Honor SER-AN00", and is equipped with 12 GB of RAM. Performance-wise, the Dimensity 8500 does not appear to significantly outperform the Dimensity 8400. The chipset delivers a single-core score of 1,728 on its best run, and a multi-core score of 6,762. Comparatively, the Dimensity 8400 averages scores of 1,621 and 6,208 on those same tests.
Those numbers represent about a 7% performance uptick, although it must be noted that this is merely an early benchmark run and is, as such, far from conclusive. That said, the chipset onboard is also listed with a core configuration identical to the Dimensity 8400's, albeit with slightly high clock speeds: A prime core running at 3.40 GHz versus the Dimensity 8400's 3.25 GHz, three cores at 3.20 GHz versus 3.0 GHz on last year's chipset, and four efficiency cores at 2.20 GHz—a slight jump from the 2.10 GHz cluster on its predecessor. It's unclear if the cores are the same, however.
Lastly, the listing reveals the GPU: ARM's Mali-G720 MC8. The Dimensity 8400 houses a Mali-G720 MC7, so it appears there may not be any significant performance improvements on the GPU side either.
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