GPU, Throttling, and NAND Operation

The Snapdragon 820 with its Adreno 530 establishes itself as the fastest smartphone SoC for graphics. This SoC takes the crown from the Apple A9 with a narrow margin in GPU benchmarks of effectually 15%.

Compared to the Nexus 6P, which used a Snapdragon 810 and a 1440p display, the Snapdragon 820 delivers seventy% better GPU functioning overall, which is a huge margin. We're as well seeing 35% meliorate GPU operation than the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, which indicates the Adreno 530 is a good bit faster than the Republic of mali-T880 MP12. This allows the LG G5 to go along to a higher place 60 FPS pretty much across the lath in games available in the Play Store.

Compared to the Snapdragon 801, operation is in the range of 2.5x, which shrinks down to around 2x when moving from a 1080p smartphone to a 1440p smartphone.

Bated from the iPhone 6s, which uses a brandish with a much lower resolution, the LG G5 posts the bests sustained on-screen graphics operation of any smartphone I've reviewed recently. The sustained score in GFXBench was over 50% better than the Samsung Milky way S7 Edge, due to throttling by just 16% subsequently 25 minutes, rather than 43% like we see from the S7 Border.

This is a consummate turnaround in class for Qualcomm after the really poor showing from Snapdragon 810 devices. The company clearly listened to complaints and has tweaked their SoC'south performance finer.

The G5 posts very adept NAND operation that equals the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. I'm glad that LG didn't focus on just sequential operation; random performance is merely equally expert from the internal 32 GB of storage you lot get in the G5.

At that place'south likewise a microSD bill of fare slot available, which can heave the storage of the G5 significantly at a low toll. Unfortunately, LG doesn't back up Android 6.0's adoptable storage for some bizarre reason, so at that place is no way to easily use the microSD for storing apps. That said, performance from a microSD will typically be significantly worse than the internal eMMC, and so in some ways it's best not to install apps on the microSD card.