Top 10 Cost-effective Smartphones, October 2016

In mobile industry, manufactures believe golden September and silver October. In the past October, there was not only the week long National Day that we are reluctant to let go, but also many new smartphone models released by manufactures. It is always better to spend money wisely no matter how rich or poor you are. So, when is the best time to change your phone? Now Antutu reveals our benchmark results of the Top 10 Cost-effective Smartphones for October. Come and check with us now.

PS: Cost performance ratio=average score of each model/current market price(refer to official source/Jingdong. At least 2000 average Antutu score samples were collected for a single model.

Let’s have a look at the Top 10 Cost-effective Smartphones below.

Note: with the fluctuation of market price and average Antutu score, the ranking list also fluctuates

In the ranking list of October, the top three were still Lenovo ZUK Z2, LeEco Le Max 2 and Xiaomi 5. With the approaching of Double 11, many new smartphones emerged in the market, and many smartphone manufacturers begin to launch promotion campaigns, as a result the cost performance of many old models rose.

Lenovo ZUK Z2’s price cut is significant, it only sells for 1199 yuan with an Antutu score of 129076, as a result its cost performance soared and successfully topped the list. LeEco Le Max 2 is priced at 1499 yuan which is 100 yuan lower compared with that of September, as a result its cost performance ratio rose to 92, ranking second. Xiaomi 5 ranked third with cost performance ratio of 85. It also had a price cut in October, and sells for 1599 yuan.

Although there were many new models in October, most of them didn’t appear on the list. We will shortly introduce some of them to you.

Smartisan M1L ranked 24th with the average Antutu score of 149705 and is price at 2799 yuan.This model looks pretty much like Apple with excellent configuration. It is powered by the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 with highest clock speed of 2.35GHz, paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of ROM.

Xiaomi Note 2 is powered by the strong Snapdragon 821 processor with the highest clock speed of 2.35GHz, paired with two storage combination versions of 4GB+64GB and 6GB+128GB. The cost performance ratio of this model is about 50 with an Antutu score of about 140,0000 , and it’s priced at 2799 yuan for the standard version and 3299 yuan for the high-end version

Xiaomi Mix, the first full screen smartphone of Xiaomi, is powered Snapdragon 821 processor with the highest clock speed of 2.35GHz, paired with the two storage combinations versions of 4GB+128GB and 6GB+256GB. The cost performance ratio of this model is about 40 with an Antutu score of about 140,0000 , and it’s priced at 3499 yuan for the standard version and 3999 yuan for the high-end version

The above data reflects the changes of smartphone cost performance ranking for September 2016. For more information about the ranking list, please subscribe Cony Ann’s WeChat AnTuTu_Benchmark, and check in the menu of “Score Query”.