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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Harry_Wild - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
I saw many interviews were Android App developers were ask what personal phone they are using responded shyly - "iPhone #*". So, that explains many things here!grayson_carr - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
I am an iOS developer and my current phone of choice is the Nexus 5.Conficio - Friday, November 21, 2014 - link
Care to link to at least three of these "interviews"coburn_c - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Why do your custom screen and battery tests never line up with gsmarena? Their screen results always have different white brightness levels then yours, and their battery tests are always more in line with synthetic scores than yours. They put the contrast of this things screen at 800:1 and the battery life below the G3.2kfire - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Re: battery, GSMArena uses 50% instead of a fixed luminance.Cinnabuns - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Just to add to what 2kfire pointed out, the author states:"200 nits on a phone can be as low as 50% and as high as 90%, so setting a standardized brightness percentage would not be an effective method of controlling for display brightness."
I would not trust GSMArena's battery tests as they do not understand how to perform a controlled test.
coburn_c - Thursday, November 20, 2014 - link
Their test was in-line with what the synthetic said here and in line with the common sense of less throttling and less software optimization don't make for more battery life.Master_Sigma - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
Very pleased to see Anandtech coming around to reviewing this phone. While I disagree with the opinion that too many options are a negative, especially given the target audience for this device, I pretty much agree with the assessment of the hardware and software.FreakTM - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
I think the opinion was more towards the fact that the options were causing some sacrifice on the user-friendliness of the experience, which I think is a fair opinion. Many options, good; many options presented in a confusing way, bad.mrex - Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - link
Better to have options than not having them. You dont need to use them if you dont want to, but if they dont exist at all, you could only dream about them... the phone is very user friendly, imo.