Cubot KingKong Star 2 Review

Performance

Cubot KingKong Star 2 is based on the MediaTek Dimensity 8200 (MT6896Z) system-on-chip. Using a 4nm-class chip production process, this chipset improves the performance and power efficiency of 5G smartphones. It houses an octa-core CPU with a single 3.1 GHz Cortex-A78 core, three 3.0 GHz Cortex-A78 cores, and four 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55. A hexa-core Mali-G610 GPU clocked at 925 MHz handles the graphics department. MediaTek's HyperEngine 6.0 gaming technologies ensure gamers can enjoy smooth framerate gameplay without suffering connection drops, FPS jitter, touch misses, or gameplay hiccups. The onboard liquid cooling technology also ensures stable performance during long sessions of heavy workloads. The KingKong Star 2 arrives with 12GB of quad-channel LPDDR5 RAM clocked at 3200 MHz. This can be virtually expanded with another 12GB. The built-in UFS 3.1 storage capacity measures 256 GB and can be expanded via a microSD card. Of those 256GB, 240GB are available to the user. Our review unit scored 852,303 points on AnTuTu 10 which is at the lower tier of results for this chipset and is significantly higher than the results of the Dimensity 8020 and the Dimensity 8050 chipsets. This puts it close to the AnTuTu results of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, for example. The single-core and multi-core results of Geekbench 6 also testify to that. The majority of the 3D Mark Sling Shot tests maxed out. The CPU throttling test we ran showed the device throttles to 81% of its max performance, which is an excellent result. We have reviewed other smartphones based on the Dimensity 8200 chipset such as Cubot Max 5, Unihertz Tank 3S, Unihertz Tank 3 Pro, and the Unihertz Tank 3S.