Hardware Overview & CPU Performance

Inside the Sony Xperia Z5 is a Snapdragon 810 SoC, which I first used earlier this year in the HTC Ace M9. The chip has been through its fair parcel of contention, including issues with power consumption and stir up output, although it's clearly a powerful central processing unit designed for high-end devices.

The Snapdragon 810 features a quad-core Central processing unit that consists of two four-Congress of Racial Equality clusters: one of which is Limb Cortex-A57 cores at 2.0 GHz, and the unusual is Cerebral mantle-A53 cores at 1.56 GHz, giving a mix of high-performance and magnate-efficient cores in the incomparable SoC. The GPU is an Adreno 430 clocked at 630 MHz, and there's an LPDDR4 memory controller providing 25.6 GB/s of bandwidth, joined to 3 Gilbert of RAM in the Xperia Z5.

As for connectivity, the Xperia Z5 includes everything you'd expect: Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac with MIMO backing, Bluetooth 4.1, DLNA, MHL 3.0, A-GPS, and up to Family 6 LTE according to Sony's specification page (the Snapdragon 810 can do up to Cat 9, but it appears non to have been enabled on this device). There are multiple models of the Xperia Z5 on the securities industry, so progress to sure you pick proscribed the right one for your domain.

Devices with the Snapdragon 810 inside are always interesting to utilization, and that's mostly because of the handsets I've used with the chip inside, I haven't seen consistent performance across the board. The Xperia Z5 is an true many interesting case as there sustain been some reports of performance issues with early review units, which is partly why we waited until we could obtain a retail model before we tested the speech sound.

Firstly, I didn't experience any significant performance issues piece using my Xperia Z5 retail unit, though it should be noted that, generally, IT wasn't as fast at loading apps or performing alkaline tasks as the Samsung Coltsfoot S6. The difference between the two devices was minimal just noticeable in side-by-side tests, and considering it was also slenderly slower than the OnePlus 2 (which uses a Snapdragon 810), I'd say these issues are down to software optimization. The good news, though, is that I didn't experience system put away or long app loading times like some others were reporting.

Piece public presentation was more often than not fine from the Xperia Z5, I did notice that it ran particularly fervent when running SoC-intensive tasks, particularly gambling or heavy web browsing for extended periods of time. It seems A though Sony distinct to run off the Snapdragon 810 hot to get the best performance out of information technology, and spell this is good for the cannonball along demons verboten there, IT commode get a little bit uncomfortable material possession the Z5 during periods of dense use.

Of the Xperia Z5's features, IT's opportune to see support for HEVC decoding and MIMO Wisconsin-Fi, which delivers the best speeds if you undergo compatible Wi-Fi hardware. It's disappointing to see nobelium USB Type-C or USB 3.0, which limits transfer speeds to and from the internal NAND, but it's easier to find little-USB 2.0 cables these days than USB-C.

In terms of synthetic benchmarks, the Xperia Z5 is around 41% quicker than the Xperia Z3 (powered by a Snapdragon 801) in Central processing unit-limited benchmarks, 51% quicker than the Xperia Z2 (also Snapdragon 801), and 50% quicker than the Xperia Z1 (Snapdragon 800). This makes the Xperia Z5 a decent upgrade on owners of any previous Xperia devices, particularly in the CPU section.

While I didn't think the Xperia Z5 was faster in practice, the Snapdragon 810 took a ~7% lead terminated the Galaxy S6 in synthetic benchmarks, probably because Sony allows it to ply hot. Information technology falls hindquarters the iPhone 6s, the quickest smartphone on the market, but it's around 6% faster than the Moto X Style (Snapdragon 808).

Compared to other Snapdragon 810 devices we're look a 26% contribute over the HTC One M9 in Central processing unit performance, an 8% atomic number 82 over the OnePlus 2, and a 16% lead over the LG G Flex 2. This makes the Xperia Z5 the fastest Snapdragon 810 device I've reviewed in these benchmarks.