The overall performance of mid-range Chinese smartphones have increased rapidly, overcoming some of the world's leading flagships that were launched earlier.

AnTuTu, a domestic smartphone performance review company recently released a research list demonstrating the performance of existing smartphones on the market.

By examining the average performance data of the 2,000 CPUs of the sampled handsets and GPUs for each brand, the research summed up a list showing the top ten performing smartphones for the month of July.

All statistics utilized for the research were collected last month (July).

Here we present the top five performing devices on the list.

No. 5 ZUK Z2 Pro

Announced in April, launched in June, the handset holds a Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor. It comes with 64 GB of ROM, 4 GB of RAM or 128 GB of ROM, 6 GB of RAM.

Customers experience Lenovo Group's latest smartphone ZUK Z2 during its launch ceremony. [Photo/China Daily]