Honor Magic 6 Pro vs Honor 400
83
out of 100
VS
69
out of 100
Here we compared two smartphones: the 6.8-inch Honor Magic 6 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) that was released on January 11, 2024, against the Honor 400, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 and came out 1 year and 5 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
- 2.2x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (2345K versus 1087K)
- The rear camera has a 2.5x optical zoom
- Shows 23% longer battery life (28:35 vs 23:16 hours)
- Has 50% more RAM: 12GB versus 8GB
- Handles wireless charging up to 66W
- Waterproof body (IP68 classification)
- Compatible with Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
- Faster storage type - UFS 4.0 versus UFS 3.1
- 2x faster in single-core GeekBench 6 test: 2218 and 1136 points
Reasons to consider the Honor 400
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
- More recent OS version: Android 16 versus 15
- The phone is 1 year and 5 months newer
- Weighs 41 grams less
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 | AMOLED |
| Size | 6.8 inches | 6.55 inches |
| Resolution | 1280 x 2800 pixels | 1264 x 2736 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 19.5:9 | 19.5:9 |
| PPI | 453 ppi | 460 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (1-120 Hz) | Yes |
| Max rated brightness | 1600 nits | 1600 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 5000 nits | 5000 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, HDR10+ |
| Touch sampling rate | 360 Hz | 240 Hz |
| Screen protection | Jurhino Glass | Tempered glass |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 92.2% | 90.2% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
| RGB color space | 99.7% | - |
| PWM | 360 Hz | - |
| Response time | 1 ms | - |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | - |
Screen space comparison
Magic 6 Pro
6.8″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 17.6 in2
Honor 400
6.55″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 16.3 in2
~7% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 162.5 mm (6.4 inches) | 156.5 mm (6.16 inches) |
| Width | 75.8 mm (2.98 inches) | 74.6 mm (2.94 inches) |
| Thickness | 8.9 mm (0.35 inches) | 7.3 mm (0.29 inches) |
| Weight | 225 g (7.94 oz) | 184 g (6.49 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | IP66 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | Vapor chamber |
| Rear material | Glass | Plastic |
| Frame material | Metal | Plastic |
| Colors | White, Black, Blue, Green, Purple | Black, Silver, Gold, Blue |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
| Repairability | - | Good (3.63/5) |
| Drop resistance | - | Very good (B) · 180 drops |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 |
| Max clock | 3300 MHz | 2630 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 1.8 GHz: Kryo Silver (Cortex-A510) - 3 cores at 2.4 GHz: Kryo Gold (Cortex-A715) - 1 core at 2.63 GHz: Kryo Prime (Cortex-A715) |
| L3 cache | 12 MB | 3 MB |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | Yes |
| Graphics | Adreno 750 | Adreno 720 |
| GPU shading units | 1536 | 512 |
| GPU clock | 903-1000 MHz | 975 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~2774 GFLOPS | ~998.4 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 13918 | 4060 |
| Single-core score | 2218 | 1136 |
| Multi-core score | 6749 | 3107 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 668505 | 403084 |
| GPU | 826271 | 207834 |
| Memory | 360598 | 216538 |
| UX | 490215 | 260069 |
| Total score | 2345589 | 1087525 |
| Samples | [7 tests] | [32 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 66% | - |
| Graphics test | 13 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 1700 | - |
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 | - |
| Video editing | 7737 | - |
| Photo editing | 32627 | - |
| Data manipulation | 13971 | - |
| Writing score | 17036 | - |
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 |
Honor 400
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-11 (Bro) | AnTuTu 12 | 956529 |
| 📘 2026-08-11 (Baclaven) | AnTuTu 11 | 947758 |
| 📘 2026-07-15 (Iulitic211Rg) | AnTuTu 11 | 1102591 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 (TheOdin) | AnTuTu 11 | 1098513 |
| 📘 2026-06-08 (brozzlex) | AnTuTu 11 | 1089031 |
Memory
| RAM size | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory clock | 4200 MHz | - |
| Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Storage size | 256 GB | 256 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 15 (Can be upgraded to Android 16) |
| ROM | MagicOS 9 | MagicOS 10 |
| OS size | 26 GB | - |
| OS updates | 2 years | 6 years |
| Security updates | 3 years | 6 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 5600 mAh | 6000 mAh |
| Max charge power | 80 W | 80 W |
| Battery type | Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) | Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (66 W) | No |
| Reverse charging | Yes, (wireless) | Yes |
| Bypass charging | - | Yes |
| Fast charging | Yes (47% in 15 min) | Yes (80% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 0:44 hr | 0:41 hr |
| Battery cycles | - | 1200 cycles |
| Web browsing | 12:44 hr | 09:20 hr |
| Watching video | 18:35 hr | 12:17 hr |
| Gaming | 06:20 hr | 05:43 hr |
| Standby | 122 hr | 121 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#77th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 200 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 16384 x 12288 |
| Zoom | Optical, 2.5x | Digital |
| Flash | 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 | 240 FPS (1080p) | - |
| Angle of widest lens | 122° | 112° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 180 MP 3) Ultrawide: 50 MP |
1) Standard: 200 MP 2) Ultrawide: 12 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 200 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.4 - 2.0 | f/1.9 |
| Focal length | 27 mm | - |
| Sensor | Omnivision OV50H | Samsung ISOCELL HP3 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch) | 1/1.4" (≈ 0.71 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.2 micron | 0.56 micron |
| Autofocus | Laser autofocus | Phase 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 | 12 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.0 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 13 mm | - |
| Sensor | Omnivision OV50D | - |
| Sensor size | 1/2.88" (≈ 0.35 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 0.61 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 85 | - |
| Preview | 83 | - |
| Zoom | 160 | - |
| Samples | Photo samples of Honor Magic 6 Pro from DxOMark | - |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 50 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Aperture | f/2.0 | f/2.0 |
| Focal length | 22 mm | - |
| Sensor | Sony IMX816 | CMOS |
| Sensor size | 1/2.51" (≈ 0.4 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 0.6 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 30 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 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) |
| 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 | 5.4 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 3.2 | 2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | Yes, DP 1.2 | No |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | Yes | Yes |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | 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 | Mid-range |
| Announced | January 2024 | May 2025 |
| Release date | January 2024 | May 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $800 | $499 |
| Successor | - Honor Magic 8 Pro | - Honor 500 |
| Sensors | - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Face recognition sensor - Fingerprint |
- Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Yes, 80 W | Yes, 100 W |
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.
Cast your vote
Total votes: 5
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