Graphics, Throttling and NAND Performance

While CPU performance remains somewhat most other electric current-generation SoCs, the G6 unfortunately falls backside by a considerable margin in GPU workloads. The Milky way S8+ is a skillful 32 percentage faster on average in GPU-limited workloads, and manages to be twice as fast in Basemark'southward intensive U-Boat examination. The Mate ix is only 10 percentage faster, though its GPU isn't equally stiff. The Snapdragon 835'south GPU is more than powerful than either of these GPUs, and then LG is missing out on superlative-end graphics performance by sticking with the S821.

It'south not surprising to discover the LG G6 is just 10 percent faster in GPU-limited workloads than final year's LG G5, as the GPU only received a pocket-size clock speed improvement moving from the S820 to S821. In GFXBench's on-screen tests, the LG G6 actually comes in two percent slower due to its higher resolution display.

Throttling is still a concern with the Snapdragon 821 in the LG G6. After 25 minutes of intense gaming, performance drops by 25 to 35 percent, which is the highest rate of throttling we've seen from any Snapdragon 820/821 device. In fact, it throttles harder than the G5 in GFXBench's 3.ane examination, resulting in a lower score after 25 minutes.

Exynos SoCs nonetheless do perform far worse in these long-term stress tests, still the Exynos-powered Galaxy S8+ withal outperforms the LG G6 during a lengthy gaming session.

The merely major difference in NAND functioning between the LG G5 and LG G6 is the G6's far superior sequential write speeds. Every other aspect seems largely unchanged, leaving the G6 as a mid-tabular array performer amongst high-end Android handsets. It'd exist nice to meet an LG flagship equipped with pinnacle-of-the-line storage in next year'south model.