CPU Operation Gains

Here's where things start to get interesting. I already established that full general operating arrangement performance feels slightly better in Android five.0, so information technology'southward now time to quantify any performance improvements. Google says in that location should be a noticable performance comeback from moving to Art, even in benchmarks, and even with standard 32-bit instructions. How noticeable these improvements are in practice remains to be seen.

On this folio we're looking at improvements in CPU and system leap benchmarks. Equally a refresher, the Moto 10 2022, Galaxy S5 and LG G3 come with Snapdragon 801 SoCs within with ii.5 GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPUs and Adreno 330 graphics. The LG G3 is the only device with 3 GB of RAM and a 1440p display, with the Moto X and Milky way S5 coming with ii GB and 1080p displays.

The Moto G 2022 is a mid-range device with a Snapdragon 400 SoC inside, with its quad-cadre Cortex A7 CPU clocked at ane.two GHz. It comes with 1 GB of RAM and an Adreno 305 GPU to power a 720p display.

Note here that the LG G3 did non complete Basemark II 2.0 in Android iv.four correctly. It did complete correctly in Android 5.0.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Moto G 2022 gained performance from their upgrade to Android 5.0, recording improvements of five% and 6%, respectively. For sustained, high performance workloads without whatever change in internal hardware, this is a decent enough proceeds, though far from groundbreaking. The Moto G stands to proceeds the most here due to its limited hardware.

The LG G3 reduced in performance by 4% on boilerplate. I suspect this has to do with LG tweaking the CPU governor to be less aggressive, as with Android 4.four the device did get very hot during benchmark runs, and was oftentimes thermally throttled. By allowing the CPU to run at slightly lower speeds, sustained operation can ameliorate. And this was the example, with the G3 performing consistently when benchmarks were performed back-to-back.

The Moto X 2022 did not gain performance at all. It already performed very well in Android 4.4, beating most other flagships with similar hardware by a small margin. While some scores dropped later the upgrade to Android 5.0, strong performance in Vellamo and especially PCMark kept it live.

Interestingly, PCMark for Android was the only benchmark which saw performance gains on every handset after switching to Android v.0. Gains were particularly large on the Moto K at 18%, and I suspect this is due to PCMark's use of simulated existent-earth tasks. As I mentioned earlier, general Bone performance seems smoother in Android 5.0, and PCMark might be illustrating this.