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GSMArena team, 2 November, 2015

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LG V10 review: Screen play

  • Comments (139)
  • User reviews
  • V10
  • 4.2

5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360° spin, hardware
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera features
  9. 9. Camera interface and quality
  10. 10. Other apps
  11. 11. Conclusion
  12.  
  13. LG V10 specification
  14. User opinions and reviews
  15. Review comments (139)

LG Android

Performance

The LG V10 is an upgrade over the LG G4, though even with recent revisions to the Snapdragon 810 chipset, which promise to reduce the heat, LG still went with the Snapdragon 808. It did load it with 4GB of RAM, though we worry about the GPU - it's not up to the QHD task.

LG V10

The processor does fairly well - two Cortex-A57 cores at 1.82GHz and four A53s at 1.44GHz come close to the Snapdragon 810 setup (which has two extra A57s). Both single and dual-core performance stays close to the S810-powered G Flex 2.

GeekBench 3

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    5158
  • OnePlus 2
    4429
  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    4413
  • LG V10
    3607
  • LG G Flex2
    3604
  • LG G4
    3509
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    3433

Basemark OS 2.0 (single-core)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    6498
  • LG G4
    5871
  • LG G Flex2
    5597
  • OnePlus 2
    5301
  • LG V10
    4261

Basemark OS 2.0 (multi-core)

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    27511
  • LG G Flex2
    18856
  • LG G4
    17739
  • LG V10
    17127
  • OnePlus 2
    16798

Full system performance is very competitive too, at least according to AnTuTu 5. Basemark OS II 2.0 found it lacking, though we never experienced any slowdowns.

AnTuTu 5

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    68324
  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    58582
  • LG V10
    52713
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    50629
  • LG G4
    49295
  • LG G Flex2
    47680
  • OnePlus 2
    47207

Basemark OS 2.0

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    2261
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    1789
  • LG G Flex2
    1726
  • OnePlus 2
    1622
  • LG G4
    1584
  • LG V10
    1383

For 3D, things are much less impressive though. The Adreno 418 GPU just doesn't have a lot of oomph and the Adreno 430 in S810 smokes it with a nearly 50% lead. The Mali-T760 in Samsung's top Exynos is even further in front.

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    38.6
  • OnePlus 2
    22
  • LG G Flex2
    22
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    15
  • LG V10
    9.5
  • LG G4
    9.4
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    9.3

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

  • OnePlus 2
    16
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    6.6
  • LG V10
    5.7
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    5.6

Even if you don't use the full QHD resolution of the screen and settle for 1080p, the frame rate is still well below the 30fps threshold. If you use the new Open GL ES 3.1, the frame rate drops even further. For a flagship, the LG V10 just isn't great at playing premium 3D games.

GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    39.5
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    25
  • OnePlus 2
    22
  • LG G Flex2
    22
  • LG V10
    15
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    15
  • LG G4
    14.9

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

  • OnePlus 2
    16
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    15
  • LG V10
    10
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    10

Basemark ES 3.1 / Metal

Higher is better

  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    916
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    348
  • LG V10
    297

Basemark X

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    26333
  • OnePlus 2
    21937
  • LG G Flex2
    19360
  • LG V10
    15161
  • LG G4
    15090
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    14598

Web browsing also puts a strain on the chipset, but it handles it much better. We used Chrome for testing and the LG V10 easily beat the S808-powered Moto X Pure Edition (aka Style) and even staid close to the more powerful Galaxy S6 edge+ for JavaScript performance.

The Samsung showed a bigger advantage is general web browsing, but a S810 doesn't do much better than the S808 either.

Kraken 1.1

Lower is better

  • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    1731
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    3767
  • LG G4
    4085
  • LG G Flex2
    4621
  • LG V10
    4666
  • OnePlus 2
    6808
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    6910

BrowserMark 2.1

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
    2591
  • Moto X Pure Edition
    2132
  • LG V10
    2119
  • LG G Flex2
    2086
  • OnePlus 2
    2055
  • LG G4
    1990

LG had plenty of time to work out heating issues since the LG G4 and Qualcomm has revised its troubled chipset to turn down the heat. Even then, Microsoft managed to create a liquid cooling solution for its Lumia 950 phones.

Snapdragon 808 is fine for general use, the processor in handles the loss of two of its big cores particularly well. It's the GPU that doesn't quite work at the flagship level. Maybe if Qualcomm had a version of the S808 with Adreno 430 things would be different.

Next Page » 6. Telephony, messaging and text input
5. Performance
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360° spin, hardware
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony, messaging and text input
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera features
  9. 9. Camera interface and quality
  10. 10. Other apps
  11. 11. Conclusion
  12.  
  13. LG V10 specification
  14. User opinions and reviews
  15. Review comments (139)

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