So guys, the Oneplus 5 is finally here
and on paper
it's the most powerful smartphone in the entire world.
But does that translate into real world performance.
In this video we are going to test it against
the Galaxy S8+ and the Xiaomi Mi6.
Notably the other two contenders for this position.
With that being said. Lets get started.
So we are going to kick things off with a boot test.
Which I know is not necessarily representative of real world android usage performance,
but is a pretty good benchmark to kick things off.
And what we find is that the Mi6 and the Oneplus 5 are almost exactly tied.
Whereas the Galaxy S8+ quite a bit behind.
So next up I wanted to test UI performance
and the way I decided to do this was to see how long it took me to find the nougat icon
in each of the different phones.
And so as you can see in the Oneplus 5, it does it far faster
It's not necessarily less clicks but the operating system is a lot more fluid
and everything feels more responsive.
And this is one of the big advantages of Oxygen OS.
The company hasn't altered the android experience too much
but the few things they have added are genuinely beneficial.
So now we are going to take a look at application opening and loading speed.
And this is a pretty good way of testing first of all CPU performance
but also read and write performance of the storage on the smartphones.
And I have tried this test multiple times with different applications
and after rebooting the phones
because I was a little bit surprised with the result but the results were consistent.
What happens is the S8 and the Oneplus are actually tied
but the Mi6 is way faster than the both of them
Now the Mi6 has a Snapdragon 835 and 6GB of RAM
and therefore on paper, the Oneplus 5 with the same chip set but just 8GB of RAM, you'd expect would just be faster
but it's just not the case.
and comparing the S8 to the Oneplus 5 it seems like having the Exynos 8895
alone is enough to compensate for having 4GB less of RAM.
The S8 here only has 4GB, that is half the RAM that the Oneplus 5 has
which is crazy!
And the only real way this can be explained is if the software on the Mi6
and the Galaxy S8 is just more optimized.
and maybe the storage performance is a little bit faster.
So what we are going to do now is look at the Quadrant benchmark.
which is little bit of an old one, it's kind an aging benchmark
but is probably a good way of testing gaming performance or at least potential gaming performance.
It looks at 2D and 3D graphics
and interestingly enough it is beaten by quite a big margin by the Galaxy S8.
This goes to show that the extra RAM
Isn't nearly enough to compensate in terms of gaming
when compare to the Exynos 8895.
That is just a superior chip for this purpose.
So delving into Antutu reveals yet another surprising result.
One which might help to explain why the Oneplus isn't performing quite aswell as it perhaps should be.
So even given its apparently superior specifications
it loses out to the Mi6
The CPU performance is roughly on par but oddly it's RAM performance is lower.
So it seems that even though we have got more RAM here
the RAM isn't actually working as quickly as the RAM on the Xiaomi Mi6.
And this isn't a small victory
or down to margin of error.
The Mi6 is a good 5% faster than the Oneplus 5.
And the Oneplus is about 2% faster the Galaxy S8 (according to this benchmark)
So moving over to a Geekbench 4 score
which is not the most interesting benchmark to watch so I will move it over pretty quickly.
We find out that the Oneplus is in last place
in both single and multi-core benchmarks.
And the S8 and Mi6 are kind of trading trading blows at the top.
It is such a shame that the specifications
don't really seem to be translating to real world performance for the smartphone.
So something I also did was tried the multi-tasking performance
on all of them
I just opened up a whole series of demanding applications and games and just kept flicking between them
to see if I noticed, first of any lag, but also if they were kept within the memory.
And between these three phones the multi-tasking performance
is more or less indistinguishable
They all kept the same number of applications in memory and took roughly the same amount of time to load each one.
And I guess that doesn't really seem like such a bad thing
they are all good at what they do.
But I suppose in a sense, this is a bit of a defeat for the Oneplus.
I mean if 8GB of RAM is ever going to be useful it is in test like this.
But even then, whilst performance is good.
It is indistinguishable from a phone with 4GB of RAM
that has to be a little bit disapointing.
So guys, don't get me wrong, the Oneplus 5 is a very very fast phone.
It's just that the specifications don't seem to be entirely representative of the performance you would get on the phone right now.
Now it is entirely possible and even slightly probable that
this performance will improve over time.
The other two smartphones have had plenty of time to update and mature their Eco-systems.
And therefore are likely to be more optimized as a result
and therefore we can expect the Oneplus 5 to get a little bit better.
But whether or not that is enough to bridge the gap is really up for debate.
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I'm Mrwhosetheboss and I'm signing out.