Honor Magic 6 Pro vs Google Pixel 9
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73
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Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.8-inch Honor Magic 6 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) that was released on January 11, 2024, against the Google Pixel 9, which is powered by Google Tensor G4 and came out 8 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Honor Magic 6 Pro
- The rear camera has a 2.5x optical zoom
- Shows 27% longer battery life (28:35 vs 22:26 hours)
- Comes with 900 mAh larger battery capacity: 5600 vs 4700 mAh
- 50% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (2345K versus 1561K)
- Supports higher wattage charging (80W versus 27W)
- Has a 0.5 inch larger screen size
- Has 2 SIM card slots
- Thinner bezels – 5.1% more screen real estate
- Has a built-in infrared port
Reasons to consider the Google Pixel 9
- Delivers 41% higher peak brightness (2220 against 1569 nits)
- More recent OS version: Android 17 versus 15
- Weighs 27 grams less
- The phone is 8 months newer
Review
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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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | OLED | OLED |
| Size | 6.8 inches | 6.3 inches |
| Resolution | 1280 x 2800 pixels | 1080 x 2424 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 19.5:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 453 ppi | 422 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (1-120 Hz) | Yes (60-120 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 1600 nits | 2700 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 5000 nits | 1800 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, HDR10+ |
| Touch sampling rate | 360 Hz | - |
| Screen protection | Jurhino Glass | Gorilla Glass Victus 2 |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 92.2% | 87.1% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display |
| RGB color space | 99.7% | 99% |
| PWM | 360 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Response time | 1 ms | 1 ms |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | ∞ Infinity |
Screen space comparison
Magic 6 Pro
6.8″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 17.6 in2
Pixel 9
6.3″ (20:9 ratio) = 14.9 in2
~18% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 162.5 mm (6.4 inches) | 152.8 mm (6.02 inches) |
| Width | 75.8 mm (2.98 inches) | 72 mm (2.83 inches) |
| Thickness | 8.9 mm (0.35 inches) | 8.5 mm (0.33 inches) |
| Weight | 225 g (7.94 oz) | 198 g (6.98 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | IP68 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | - |
| Rear material | Glass | Glass |
| Frame material | Metal | Metal |
| Colors | White, Black, Blue, Green, Purple | White, Black, Green, Pink |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
| Repairability | - | Good (3.5/5) |
| Drop resistance | - | Excellent (A) · 270 drops |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 | Google Tensor G4 |
| Max clock | 3300 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 2 + 2) | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) |
| Architecture | - 2 cores at 2.27 GHz: Cortex-A520 - 2 cores at 2.96 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 3 cores at 3.15 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 1 core at 3.3 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
- 4 cores at 1.92 GHz: Cortex-A520 - 3 cores at 2.6 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 1 core at 3.1 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
| L3 cache | 12 MB | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | Yes |
| Graphics | Adreno 750 | Mali-G715 MC7 |
| GPU shading units | 1536 | 896 |
| GPU clock | 903-1000 MHz | 940 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~2774 GFLOPS | ~1684.4 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 13918 | 7536 |
| Single-core score | 2218 | 1707 |
| Multi-core score | 6749 | 4431 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 668505 | 576617 |
| GPU | 826271 | 410060 |
| Memory | 360598 | 210177 |
| UX | 490215 | 364573 |
| Total score | 2345589 | 1561427 |
| Samples | [7 tests] | [4 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 66% | 74% |
| Graphics test | 13 FPS | 8 FPS |
| Graphics score | 1700 | 1047 |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Graphics test | 33 FPS | - |
| Section 1 | 36 FPS | - |
| Section 2 | 33 FPS | - |
| Section 3 | 29 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 8599 | - |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | 66% | - |
| Graphics test | 29 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 4854 | - |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 17561 | 10043 |
| Video editing | 7737 | 7463 |
| Photo editing | 32627 | 21077 |
| Data manipulation | 13971 | 13349 |
| Writing score | 17036 | 15810 |
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (#186th place)
Recent User Tests
Honor Magic 6 Pro
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-08 (NikimanTI) | AnTuTu 11 | 2379278 |
| 📘 2026-02-24 (techtest) | AnTuTu 11 | 2397180 |
| 📘 2026-02-14 (7xossam1) | AnTuTu 11 | 2303462 |
| 📘 2026-02-07 (Honor android sigma🗿) | AnTuTu 11 | 2390790 |
| 📘 2026-01-09 (freqr) | AnTuTu 11 | 2331069 |
Google Pixel 9
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-18 -> Oleg 16 cm | AnTuTu 11 | 1423579 |
| 📘 2026-06-13 (Plotwa) | CPU Throttle | 82% |
| 📘 2026-04-14 (LymXT) | AnTuTu 11 | 1577137 |
| 📘 2025-12-09 (enigma) | AnTuTu 11 | 1519937 |
| 📘 2025-11-28 (W1TRAY) | AnTuTu 11 | 1561427 |
Memory
| RAM size | 12 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory clock | 4200 MHz | 4200 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Storage size | 256 GB | 128 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 3.1 |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 14 (Can be upgraded to Android 15) | Android 14 (Can be upgraded to Android 17) |
| ROM | MagicOS 9 | Stock Android |
| OS size | 26 GB | 19 GB |
| OS updates | 2 years | 7 years |
| Security updates | 3 years | 7 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 5600 mAh | 4700 mAh |
| Max charge power | 80 W | 27 W |
| Battery type | Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) | Li-Ion |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (66 W) | Yes (12 W) |
| Reverse charging | Yes, (wireless) | Yes, (wireless) |
| Bypass charging | - | No |
| Fast charging | Yes (47% in 15 min) | Yes (55% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 0:44 hr | 1:25 hr |
| Battery cycles | - | 1000 cycles |
| Web browsing | 12:44 hr | 10:01 hr |
| Watching video | 18:35 hr | 13:38 hr |
| Gaming | 06:20 hr | 05:41 hr |
| Standby | 122 hr | 98 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#77th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 8160 x 6144 |
| Zoom | Optical, 2.5x | Digital |
| Flash | LED | LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | No | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 240 FPS (1080p) | 240 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 122° | 123° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 180 MP 3) Ultrawide: 50 MP |
1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Ultrawide: 48 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.4 - 2.0 | f/1.7 |
| Focal length | 27 mm | 24 mm |
| Sensor | Omnivision OV50H | Samsung GNK |
| Sensor size | 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch) | 1/1.31" (≈ 0.76 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.2 micron | 1.2 micron |
| Autofocus | Laser autofocus | Laser autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 180 MP | - |
| Aperture | f/2.6 | - |
| Focal length | 68 mm | - |
| Sensor | Samsung ISOCELL S5KHP3 | - |
| Sensor size | 1/1.49" (≈ 0.67 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 0.56 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Optical | - |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 48 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.0 | f/1.7 |
| Focal length | 13 mm | - |
| Sensor | Omnivision OV50D | - |
| Sensor size | 1/2.88" (≈ 0.35 inch) | 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.61 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 85 | 75 |
| Preview | 83 | 83 |
| Zoom | 160 | 132 |
| Samples | Photo samples of Honor Magic 6 Pro from DxOMark | Photo samples of Google Pixel 9 from DxOMark |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 50 megapixels | 10.5 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 3648 x 2736 |
| Aperture | f/2.0 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 22 mm | 20 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX816 | CMOS |
| Sensor size | 1/2.51" (≈ 0.4 inch) | 1/3.1" (≈ 0.32 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.6 micron | 1.22 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | Yes | No |
DxOMark front camera
| Photo | 149 | - |
| Video | 155 | - |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - 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 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | Yes, DP 1.2 | Yes |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | Yes | No |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 1 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | - |
| eSIM support* | Yes | Yes |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 20 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | No | No |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Flagship |
| Announced | January 2024 | August 2024 |
| Release date | January 2024 | August 2024 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $800 | $799 |
| Successor | - Honor Magic 8 Pro | - Google Pixel 10 |
| SAR (head) | - | 0.99 W/kg |
| SAR (body) | - | 1.4 W/kg |
| Sensors | - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Face recognition sensor - Fingerprint |
- Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Yes, 80 W | Not included |
Further details
Notes on Magic 6 Pro:
- The rear cover is available in eco-leather, which adds 4 grams to the smartphone's weight.
*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 Magic 6 Pro is definitely a better buy.
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