The Nexus 6P packs a hefty punch with a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 810 v2.1 chipset. The Adreno 430 pairs very nicely with the latter for a perfect UI experience with velvety-smooth animations with absolutely no hiccups when switching back and forth between apps and performing basic tasks like opening apps and transitioning between windows.
As for gaming performance, particularly with Asphalt 8, the performance was less than perfect. Just remember, Asphalt 8 is quite a heavy application requiring a lot of horsepower. We simply wish it ran as smoothly as it did on the iPhone 6S, but we could be looking at it the wrong way.
Other, more casual games like Candy Crush, Subway Surfer, Granny Smith, and Temple Run 2 all ran perfectly without hiccups or dropped frames. Games look super fluid visually stunning thanks to the punchy colors of the Samsung-made AMOLED panel.
GeekBench 3 scores show the Nexus 6P just ahead of Apple A9 chip performance. Samsung's Exynos chipset still beat the Snapdragon 810 on the GeekBench test.
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The Nexus 6P scored placed similarly in the Antutu test when comparing the scores to the GeekBench test above. The Exynos lineup beats the Snapdragon 810 setup just past the iPhone 6S's A9 chip.
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This is where we see that Android's graphics power is still not to par with iOS's custom GPU chip, even with Google's flagship phone packed with top-of-the-line CPU and graphics.
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Our onscreen graphics test scored the same as the Nexus 5X, most likely due to the increase in pixels (1440p vs 1080p) despite the increased horsepower.
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The Nexus 6P was able to beat out the competition in our second offscreen graphics processing test. The Nexus 5X only pumped out 11fps in the same test while the Nexus 6P scored 17 fps.
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It looks like Marshmallow has made some performance optimizations that were able to beat even the Exynos processors when it comes to the graphics department. Both the Nexus 6P and the 5X scored the same 11fps in this on screen test.
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The browser tests were done directly in the Chrome browser. The Nexus 6P scored best as a non-Samsung contender. The Exynos team did slightly better in browser performance while the iPhone 6S Plus blew all Android away in the browser tests.
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When using a separate browser test, the results don't reflect the outcome of the Kraken browser test. Browsermark ranked the Nexus 6P right in the middle of the other Exynos performers. The Nexus 6P performed even better than the Note5 did.
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Not all benchmarks are created equally, which is why these benchmarks show the 6P ahead of all the other Exynos competitors but placed just behind the iPhone 6S Plus.
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Our singe-core test revealed that the Nexus 6P is more capable of running everyday tasks quickly (since oftentimes the CPU will only be running one or two cores). The single-core test is designed to stress only one core in order to see how every day tasks (opening apps, sending SMS, loading webpages) will affect the CPU before it has to ramp up two or more cores for multitasking.
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The multi-core test is used to measure the CPUs ability to perform multiple calculations at the same time. The Nexus 6P, however, scored lower than the Nexus 6 did, this could be due to the different CPU infrastructures: higher speed quad-core vs lower speed octa-ctore. The Exynos processors did better in these multicore tests. Whatever Samsung is doing, they are doing it right.
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The Basemark ES 3.1 placed the Nexus 6P above the other competitors but still not a match for the iPhone 6S Plus. It's still unbelievable how Apple has managed to optimize the software for these A9 processors.
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The Nexus 6P overall did very well in our benchmark tests and scored consistently and comparably to the other Samsung competitors. The Nexus 6P was often at or just below the scores of Exynos-powered Samsung devices. With that being said, the Snapdragon 810 proves worthy of being a direct competitor to the Exynos processors and we hope to see them defeated with the first wave of devices powered by the Snapdragon 820.
There definitely was some thermal throttling going on that would have affected our benchmark tests if we didn't wait for the device to cool down properly between runs. However, during normal use, we haven't felt the device getting hotter than the body's temperature. Heat dissipated fairly quickly with the help of the aluminum backside of the device, acting as a heat sink to cool it down. Perhaps the only times the phone became hot to the touch, was when trying to use it while charging.
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