The New Motorola Moto X (2nd Gen) Review
by Joshua Ho on September 17, 2014 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- 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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coder543 - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Nope.Flunk - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
That's right, it's only been 39 nears since the "Metric Conversion Act" of 1975. Not 100 years.theuglyman0war - Thursday, September 18, 2014 - link
Not sure but wasn't the Metric Conversion Act a direct response to some initial action made by Woodrow Wilson? At least that is what I was taught in grade school in the 70's.What is really irksome is that despite there being a massive campaign by school systems to make the date where we were actually getting a handle on the metric conversion at the time...
Because all the "grown ups" at the time were waving their hands and running around like chickens yelling "it's useless!" "it's useless!" the whole program died an unfair death even though we were learning and understanding the world in metric just fine!
( now that I am 50 and forgot how to look at the world in units of 10 it is officially useless! )
keithzg - Monday, September 22, 2014 - link
Yeah, the resistance by "grown ups" to the Metric system was, and continues to be, pretty ridiculous. I mean, units of 10? However will I conceptualize that?!?! It's not like it equals the count of my fingers, or my numerical system is based on that or anything!melgross - Thursday, September 18, 2014 - link
Actually, it was back in 1866 that Congress passed a law requiring businesses and government to convert to metric as soon as possible, and to begin teaching it in schools. Unfortunately, no one paid attention.usernametaken76 - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
What size screen does your phone have again?soccerballtux - Thursday, September 18, 2014 - link
ouchhhhhhh heheRatman6161 - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
My fellow Americans: 1 inch = approximately 25mm. But really does it matter? The numbers are just so you can compare it to other phones so as long as all the reviews use a consistent unit of measure, why does it matter? Just saying. If it does matter to you, wip our your calculator.Arkive - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
Wow. I was born and raised in America and even I am astonished by this comment. Seriously, we are not the only ones reading these articles, plus, metric is clearly better than our randomly generated units of measurement.Fergy - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link
If you give someones height as 5 feet 2 inch it is even worse.1 feet = 30.48cm, 1 inch = 2.54cm
5x30.48cm=152.4cm + 2x2.54cm=5.08cm
152.4cm+5.08cm=157.48cm
So that is 157.48cm or 1.5748m. I get that you grew up with the imperial system but the metric system is so much easier to use and it is the default for science.