Even though the Huawei Nexus 6P was released almost seven months ahead of the new LG flagship, the LG G5, YouTube channel XEETECHCARE still thought it was worth comparing the two smartphones in a speed test. They probably thought it would be good to see if there is much difference between the processors of the two devices, which is the Snapdragon 810 and the 820 respectively. Plus, the Nexus 6P has a 3GB RAM while the LG G5 has 4GB, so it should be worth comparing too.
The video showed the two devices opening the same apps like Temple Run, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc. It also showed the multi-tasking capabilities, browsing using Google Chrome, booting up, and lastly, the fingerprint sensor challenge as well. What we came away from the video is that even there’s a whole generation jump between their processors, the LG G5 was just slightly faster in almost all aspects. This indicates, at least with these particular two smartphones, that there is not much difference between the 810 and the 820.
This is good news for those who have the Nexus 6P or devices that have Snapdragon 810 and a 3GB RAM. You won’t feel pressured to upgrade to a new smartphone anytime soon, since the differences in speed, if that’s what you’re looking for in a device, is very minimal and forgivable.
But that may also mean that the newer devices that will sport Snapdragon 820 and 4GB RAM will have to offer something new to convince consumers to upgrade. The LG G5 at least has a unique modular design that has captured some attention, so it has an advantage among the new smartphones introduced to the market in the past few months.
Not surprising. Nexus 6P is a “pure” Android without all G5’s bloatware.
Yeah, this says a lot less about how much faster the 820 is vs the 810 then how much faster stock Android is than the bloatware-palooza that is OEM skins.
maybe I am crazy, but my Nexus 6p runs like poo. My G3 seemed very consistent and fast.
I still cant really depend on voice search with my 6p, few second lag before it responds and then im already trying to searcht he old fashion way when the voice search box finally shows up.
I don’t think the pure android experience is all its made out to be. While Google is making the software general for all manufacturers, manufacturers are tuning the software more specifically to to their specific hardware
Sorry to hear that. Try clearing your app and system cache, and see if that improves performance. Btw, Android on Nexus phones is also specifically tuned to each generation’s hardware capabilities… hence the difference in build numbers in OS updates and security patches between the different models.
We need performance / battery efficiency. Looking forward to have a new nexus with 820.
Shows how much better android performs without a oem skin
Better without the skin? The G5 is moving faster though
Lg skin is as close to stock as a skin comes