The OnePlus One Review
by Joshua Ho on November 19, 2014 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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GPU Performance
As always, it's important to test the performance of the GPU in order to better understand how a device will perform in workloads such as 3D gaming and similar situations. In the case of the OnePlus One and its Snapdragon 801 SoC, we're looking at an Adreno 330 GPU clocked at 578 MHz. While this is a known quantity by this point, it's still worth going over simply to verify that performance is in line with what we expect from this setup.
As one might be able to guess, the OnePlus One's graphics performance is where we expect it to be. At this point in the device lifecycle, the OnePlus One ends up behind the latest and greatest, but performance is more than acceptable as most of the GPU performance gains are spent on driving higher resolutions instead of better performance.
NAND Performance
In truth, storage performance tends to fall to the background on the long list of things that affect user experience. However, while it takes large improvements for a user to notice faster storage, poor storage performance is extremely obvious and painful to live with. To test this, we use Androbench with some custom settings to reduce variability in results. While Androbench seems to be an invalid test on Android 5.0, on Android 4.4 the test continues to work well for its purpose so we can disclose these results.
In this test, it's clear that OnePlus has kitted out the One with some extremely high-quality NAND (which appears to be a Toshiba solution) , but random I/O isn't quite as impressive. This may be due to the controller used. At any rate, one shouldn't have any problems with lag resulting from poor storage performance as the eMMC used in this device is incredibly high-end for a device of this price.
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tipoo - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Was that meant as a reply to me? I know that, the N5 was a great example of this. Though the 6 is going back up to stupid pricing.tipoo - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Yes the authors "first" comment was wrong, but I meant about the "understand the market" bit, I'm guessing he means subsidized prices.Arbie - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
A phablet with no microSD? These larger phones (and of course tablets) are what benefit from that the most, in their role as media players. I wouldn't even consider the OPO.coldpower27 - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
64GB is already sufficiently large that a microSD isn't totally necessary. Less and less Android phones have this feature now. That has been the general trend now. Google is moving away from it with the Nexus 5/6/9, Apple never has had it in it's products.There are still some modern products that have it. Samsung GS5, Note 4, HTC One M8, LG G3.
cjs150 - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
The idea that 64 G is enough is hilarious - this is a phone begging to be used as a media device whilst travelling. The reason for removing the microSD is a function of price. Phone/Tablet manufacturers massively overcharge for adding extra storage. It is also a function of the same manufacturers employing designers who, to put it simply, need to get out into the sunshine a bit more. Not everywhere has good access to the cloud, in fact huge chunks of the first world has poor or no access - and that is before you get started on the data cap that no doubt is written into your phone contractChaser - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
What's hilarious is are people that believe 5" phone displays should be loaded up with movies and then used as miniature Imax viewers. It's a phone. It doesn't need 80 HD movies with Dolby Digital 7.1.jabber - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
Yeah if you are going on vacation, enjoy the vacation. Don't spend it watching crappy movies the whole time. You really don't need to carry masses of video and audio around.oliwek - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
Those recent phones have (micro)-USB OTG connectors. So it's possible to stock movies and music on USB thumb drives... I'd prefer to get the choice, though.oliwek - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - link
LG G2 had no SD card slot, G3 has got one. Same evolution for the HTC One. And Samsung flagships always had SD card slots. So this evolution is not so widespread (if you except Nexus models, and Apple tactics to let the customer pay more and more for enough NAND)..
slfisher - Monday, November 24, 2014 - link
I held off from getting a OnePlus for that reason for quite a while -- as well as the fact that it doesn't have a removable battery. I was really holding out for either a Google Play edition of the S5, or Lollipop on my existing S3. Since neither one was forthcoming, I went for the OnePlus because of the bare metal and the 64GB.