Hardware Overview and CPU Performance

As is expected, the OnePlus 2 features a generational SoC upgrade on the OnePlus One, moving from a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 to a Snapdragon 810. In my prior testing of the octa-core Snapdragon 810 I didn't see a huge difference in performance between it and the hexa-cadre Snapdragon 808, but OnePlus seems to accept opted for the Snapdragon 810 to truly make the OnePlus ii a 2016 flagship killer.

The Snapdragon 810 features 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores clocked at ane.96 GHz alongside four Cortex-A53 CPU cores at ane.56 GHz. The larger A57 cores are designed for high performance tasks, while the A53s are more often used for full general tasks and low power processing. Both clusters are ARMv8-based, meaning they fully back up 64-bit code, and Global Chore Scheduling allows the SoC to act as a true octa-core processor with all eight cores operating simultaneously where necessary.

The GPU in the Snapdragon 810 is Qualcomm'south custom-made Adreno 430 clocked at 600 MHz. In that location's also a Hexagon V56 DSP clocked at 800 MHz, dual-ISPs for i.2 GP/s of bandwidth, and 4K HEVC/H.265 encoding and decoding. Every bit for memory bandwidth, the dual-channel 32-bit LPDDR4-1600 memory controller provides 25.6 GB/s of throughput. The OnePlus 2 comes with either iii or 4 GB of RAM depending on whether you get the model with sixteen GB or 64 GB of eMMC 5.0-based internal storage.

The Snapdragon 810 supports LTE Category nine for 450 Mbps of downstream bandwidth and l Mbps upstream, with the OnePlus ii'south Northward American model supporting FDD-LTE on bands 1, 2, iv, 5, seven, 8, 12 and 17. Unfortunately the lack of band 3 support makes this model largely unsuitable for use in Europe and Asia, with OnePlus producing a split model for these regions. All OnePlus 2s come up with ii SIM carte du jour slots.

The OnePlus ii as well comes with Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/chiliad/northward/ac, Bluetooth four.1, and GPS+GLONASS support. OnePlus has decided not to include NFC back up in the OnePlus two, as apparently not plenty people used the feature in the original OnePlus One. This is a little flake baffling to me, as Google is just about to launch their NFC-based payment solution, Android Pay. Without NFC support in the OnePlus 2, the device will not be able to run Android Pay, different the vast majority of its flagship competitors. While NFC isn't currently in widespread use, in a year's time its omission from the OnePlus 2 to save a few dollars might be quite annoying.

There is no microSD carte slot in the OnePlus two, so if you want to expand upon the included storage, y'all can't. The base xvi GB model is definitely on the slim side for storage, so I'd highly recommend spending the actress money to go the 64 GB model. Plus you also get an upgrade to 4 GB of RAM (although I don't wait the difference in RAM capacities to make much of a divergence in terms of operation).

Let's take a look at how the OnePlus 2 performs in CPU-intensive tasks.

As far as CPU performance is concerned, the OnePlus 2 performs equally expected for a Snapdragon 810 device. Information technology was slightly faster than the HTC One M9 and LG K Flex 2, both Snapdragon 810 devices, in about tests, merely slightly slower than the Samsung Galaxy S6. This is a pretty decent result for the Snapdragon 810, because its issues in the two same devices.