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
CPU and General Performance
By now, the choice of SoC has become a major focus in every smartphone. While it may not be clear how to use more compute with every generation, it’s generally accepted that stronger CPU and GPU performance is better, especially if it means that there is a power advantage in race to sleep tasks. In the case of the new Moto X we see a Snapdragon 801 SoC with CPU clocked at 2.5 GHz and a GPU clocked at 578 MHz. At this point, there's really not too much to talk about in this SoC as we've reviewed multiple devices with the same exact part.
Currently, our test suite relies upon a combination of browser and gaming benchmarks to get a good idea of total performance. However, it’s important to note that the Android results are only comparable to other Android phones as the stock browser will have specific optimizations that aren’t found in Chrome. We’ll start with the browser benchmarks first.
In the browser benchmarks, we see that the new Moto X falls right where we expect it to for the Snapdragon 801. It's plenty fast, and I don't expect any differences in CPU performance between Snapdragon 801 and 805 devices. This is unlikely to be a point of differentiation until Snapdragon 810 and beyond come into play. We'll take a look at Basemark OS II next, which is a general system performance benchmark.
Here, we once again see that there's not much different in terms of performance. We'll turn to the gaming benchmarks next to get a good idea of what to expect from the GPU.
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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.