The Xiaomi Mi Note Pro and Mi Note Review
by Joshua Ho on September 11, 2015 9:00 AM ESTSystem Performance Cont'd
Now that we've gone over some of the more CPU-bound benchmarks for overall performance, we can look at some of the more GPU-bound benchmarks such as 3DMark, Basemark X, and GFXBench 3. Of course, it's important to note that we're actively in the process of migrating to newer GPU benchmarks so for now these benchmarks are really mostly representative of OpenGL ES 3 performance rather than 3.1.
Interestingly, the GPU benchmark results show a pretty noticeable change relative to what we saw out of the One M9 at the launch of the first Snapdragon 810 phones. It's clear that some sort of driver optimization has been implemented as in every benchmark we see performance improvements well north of 5% that would be seen from purely clock speed gains. This highlights just how volatile GPU performance can be as Adreno 430 is now roughly equivalent to the T760MP8 in GFXBench and 3DMark. However, we still see the Adreno 430 lagging behind in Basemark X, which suggests the architecture of the Adreno 430 is a limiting factor in some workloads.
NAND Performance
While it’s often easy to forget about internal storage outside of capacity, it turns out that good storage performance is critical for a number of general purpose computing tasks. Mobile OSes aren’t necessarily as affected by storage performance as a desktop or laptop that is caching parts of RAM on internal storage, but even so it’s definitely possible to see the problems that result from cutting too deep here. Probably the most well-known example of this sort of cutting was the original Nexus 7 in 2012, which suffered from severe issues due to a lack of TRIM and general poor performance. In order to test mobile devices for this sort of problem, we use our standard benchmarks for testing basic read and write performance of the internal storage solution. In the case of the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, we see a Samsung CGND3R eMMC package, while the Xiaomi Mi Note uses Toshiba’s 016GE2 eMMC solution.
In practice, neither has incredible performance, but performance is far from poor here. For the most part, the user experience effects on storage performance will be somewhat hard to notice as sufficient storage performance means that the bottleneck for any kind of lag or stutter would be elsewhere in most applications.
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Vorl - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
Weather it makes sense or not isn't the point. The point is that AT has been a US based review site. If they are going to start changing that policy, then it is reasonable and realistic for readers who are reading it for purchase decisions to be informed at the start of the review that AT is reviewing something out of the ordinary.Now, I can tell how much it has bothered you that AT has been, and as far as I can tell is still mostly US focused.
Perhaps you should seek therapy to help you deal with your feelings of jealousy and inadequacy. Just a thought.
menting - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
that doesn't make sense at all. AT goes to tons of international trade shows that show products that will not even be in the US. Should they not report on those products at all then? Granted it's not a review, but the logic is still the same.BMNify - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
Only an idiot will say that facts don't matter, the point that most of Anandtech readership is International is a fact and there is no denying it and it is only logical that they will cover even more International products in the future to the utter chagrin of Redneck, bigoted 'Muricans. Also, LOL at being jealous of redneck 'Muricans, guys like you humour me :)garbagedisposal - Saturday, September 12, 2015 - link
You're an idiot. fact.Yaru - Sunday, October 4, 2015 - link
I checked the "About Anandtech" page, nothing there remotely even says that it only focus on US-based things. If anything it didn't single out any country. If you have the impression that it's US-based then it was your mistake as its not part of their goal.prisonerX - Saturday, September 12, 2015 - link
A bitter, bigoted and uninformative rant that projects all your prejudices onto Americans.You seem to think "westerners" give a toss about what's selling in Europe or anywhere else. Most people just want to know what they can buy for themselves. That doesn't mean they're bad people.
Notmyusualid - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
Ridiculous.You can even order your kitchen online from China, why not your phone too?
So we shouldn't hear about cool products anymore, because some people reading this would have to import it? I disagree.
geo2160 - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
You know you can import it, right? I live in Europe and most Xiaomi phones I've seen were ordered online from China.Yaru - Sunday, October 4, 2015 - link
EXACTLY, you can buy phones using this magical thing called the Internet. From worldwide!!!Ryan Smith - Friday, September 11, 2015 - link
I have to admit I'm surprised by some of the comments here, but at the end of the day it's good feedback to have.=)We went into phones with an international mindset from the start. It's why we have mobile editors like Andrei located outside of North America. The good news is that most phones are available worldwide, but we're also not going to hesitate to review phones that don't get an NA release. Someone can still put out a good product and not formally release it in NA, and that certainly is worth a look.
In any case I do appreciate the feedback. We'll work on finding a way to make it clearer what regions a phone is available in for future articles.