The New Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) Review
by Joshua Ho on September 17, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Motorola
- Android
- Mobile
GPU Performance
As said in the previous section, we'll look at game-based benchmarks to get a better idea of how the Snapdragon 801's Adreno 330 GPU performs.
Once again, there are really no results that stand out. I suspect that the metal frame helps to prevent thermal throttling in short benchmarks, but in most scenarios this doesn't really play out and there's no real way to establish long term performance as the GFXBench rundown test doesn't complete properly.
NAND Performance
NAND performance has been an ongoing issue since we first illustrated how poor NAND could easily become a massive detriment to user experience. While sequential reads and writes are generally at a good level these days, it’s the random read and write tests that can be incredibly poor, and these are often a good indicator of overall UI performance as something like installing applications can make a device unusable if storage performance isn’t good enough. In order to test this, we turn to Androbench with a few custom settings to best represent performance.
While the new Moto X doesn't quite top the previous Moto X in random write speeds, it's unlikely that the storage solution is worse. I found that the data and system partitions now use ext4, which means that the performance gains we saw with f2fs are gone. I'm not sure why Motorola decided to change back to ext4 given the performance gains that come with f2fs, but possible reasons include unforeseen conditions where f2fs could result in data loss compared to ext4 or difficulties in integrating f2fs support on Android. At any rate, the new Moto X is one of the best performers in this category, which should keep performance high after a year or two of use.
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adityarjun - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
He wasn't gloating about it, he was just sharing his happiness. From his tone, it sounds like he respects AT a lot and it was a pleasant surprise for him to be the first one to comment.It is not like, he just wrote "First!!!".
rituraj - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
You sir, have earned my sincere respectbeggerking@yahoo.com - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
lol gratz!Peroxyde - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Oh no way, me too I have a dream of marrying someone "first" poster in AT article. If you are a guy and is OK to have a sex change operation, then we can talk business later.batongxue - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Those FCC stuff on the bottom. Yikesadityarjun - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Yup, that part looks really bad!!Harry_Wild - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Since many people are not familiar with metric measurements in the U.S.; why not give them in inches? This means nothing to me: 140.8 x 72.4 x 3.8-9.9 mm!JetSter735180 - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Do you know how stupid your comment sounds ? Just because you don't use the metric system, you can at least take 5 seconds and search the conversion formula or even use google to convert it for you.Their are 196 counties in the world and 193 of them officially use the metric system. Its taught in first grade of most of these countries.
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
And just FYI, even Motorola only lists the measurements in metric on their US site:https://www.motorola.com/us/motomaker?pid=FLEXR2#m...
Fergy - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
I thought the USA officially converted to metric about a hundred years ago. It is just that people are so stubborn that they won't use it.