LG G2 vs HTC One: Game of phones

Performance

Looking at the chipsets of the two contenders it's rather obvious who the favorite here is. Optimizations and tweaks are one thing, but will hardly make up for the one generation older chipset inside the HTC One.

The LG G2 packs a Snapdragon 800 chip with four 2.26 GHz Krait 400 cores and the potent Adreno 330 GPU to handle intense graphics. On the opposite side sits the Snapdragon 600-powered HTC One with four 1.7 GHz Krait 300 cores and the Adreno 320 GPU. Both devices carry 2 gigs of RAM to boost multitasking.

Snapdragon 800 is a more complex, powerful chipset in every feasible way compared to Snapdragon 600 and brings a new tweaked CPU core in addition to the far higher clockspeed.

BenchmarkPi gives the CPU individual cores a test, while Linpack tests the multi-threaded output. The LG G2 went off to a flying start, trashing the HTC One in both tests.

Benchmark Pi

Lower is better

• LG G2
  99
• HTC One
  151

Linpack

Higher is better

• LG G2
  1054
• HTC One
  646

GeekBench 2 is a cross-platform benchmark and focuses on CPU and memory speeds. The LG G2 came out on top once again, although things were far closer this time.

Geekbench 2

Higher is better

• LG G2
  2243
• HTC One
  1972

AnTuTu 4 and Quadrant are a couple of all-round benchmarks. The LG G2 recorded two more wins here with the second one being the most emphatic so far .

AnTuTu 4

Higher is better

• LG G2
  32125
• HTC One
  26238

Quadrant

Higher is better

• LG G2
  19815
• HTC One
  11746

Moving on to graphics benchmarks. Here the Adreno 330 has a clear edge over the Adreno 320 and the results are hardly surprising. Although the HTC One produced good results on all three , the LG G2 was far beyond its reach each time.

GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

• LG G2
  54
• HTC One
  37

GLBenchmark 2.7 T-Rex (1080p off-screen)

Higher is better

• LG G2
  22
• HTC One
  15

Epic Citadel

Higher is better

• LG G2
  51
• HTC One
  35.6

Finally we come to JavaScript and HTML 5 performance tests. The LG G2 completed its perfect streak, beating its competitor at SunSpider, BrowserMark and Vellamo.

SunSpider

Lower is better

• LG G2
  902
• HTC One
  1174

BrowserMark 2

Higher is better

• LG G2
  2718
• HTC One
  2262

Vellamo

Higher is better

• LG G2
  2908
• HTC One
  2382

It's clear as day that the hardware inside the LG G2 is far superior to that of the HTC One. The HTC flagship doesn't feel slow in any use case and it provides great app loading times and browsing through the phone won't make you feel in dire need of a Snapdragon 800-powered smartphone. However, if you use the two one after the other, you will immediately realize which one you want to keep.

Winner: LG G2. The HTC One is a snappy smartphone, but it's no match for the LG G2 and the Snapdragon 800 beast inside it.