LG G4 is the first smartphone to come out with the Snapdragon 808 chip. Qualcomm announced the 808 revision side by side with the flagship 810 model, but it is only now that we are seeing it in action for the first time.
The Snapdragon 808 offers a hexa-core 64-bit processor with two Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores, an Adreno 418 GPU and 3GB of RAM.
According to LG, the chipset is supposed to provide equally good performance as the Samsung's Exynos 7420 found in the Galaxy S6 - at least for the regular daily tasks.
We ran some benchmarks on a Korean preview unit. The smartphone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop and we'd reckon the software should be pretty much final since the phone is already on sale in its motherland.
LG G4 leaves a lotto be desired in the CPU-centric GeekBench 3 benchmark. The smartphone lags behind this year's crop of flagship smartphone
GeekBench 3
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 5215
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 5095
HTC One M9 3761
LG G Flex2 3604
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 3394
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 2532
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 2423
The trend continues in the AnTuTu 5 benchmark, which includes RAM and storage speed into the mix and is an indication of the overall performance of the device. LG G4 came close to HTC One M9, though it is far from the showing of Samsung Galaxy S6.
AnTuTu 5
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 70053
Samsung Galaxy S6 69396
HTC One M9 51427
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 49777
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 49273
LG G Flex2 47680
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 42301
BaseMark OS II is an overall compound benchmark, while BaseMark X focuses on the device's GPU. See the LG G4 results below.
Basemark OS II
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 1826
Samsung Galaxy S6 1769
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 1672
LG G Flex2 1601
HTC One M9 1526
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 1332
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 1094
Basemark OS II (single-core)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 3497
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 3372
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 2574
LG G Flex2 2528
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 2423
HTC One M9 2401
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 1462
Basemark OS II (multi-core)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 16986
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 16856
HTC One M9 10128
LG G Flex2 9758
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 9198
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 8441
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 5600
Basemark X
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 27169
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 27046
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 20043
HTC One M9 19848
LG G Flex2 19360
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 15090
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 12565
GFXBench puts the Adreno 418 GPU of LG G4 to the test. Again, the component doesn't quite match the performance of its competitors in the segment.
GFX 2.7 T-Rex (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 59
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 59
LG G Flex2 49
HTC One M9 49
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 40
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 35
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 27
GFX 2.7 T-Rex (onscreen)
Higher is better
HTC One M9 50
LG G Flex2 48
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 39
Samsung Galaxy S6 38
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 27
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 26
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 25
GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 26
Samsung Galaxy S6 24
HTC One M9 23
LG G Flex2 22
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 18
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 15
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 13
GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)
Higher is better
HTC One M9 24
LG G Flex2 22
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 15
Samsung Galaxy S6 14
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 13
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 11
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 9.4
Update, May 14: We re-ran the Kraken benchmark and got a much better result, close to what the Galaxy S6 scores.
Kraken 1.1
Lower is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 3989
Samsung Galaxy S6 4154
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 4310
LG G Flex2 4621
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 5181
HTC One M9 5500
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 6360
We also tried BrorwserMark 2.1 again though it returned the slightly disappointing score from before. We'll investigate the performance further in the review.
BrowserMark 2.1
Higher is better
Samsung Galaxy S6 2718
Samsung Galaxy S6 edge 2702
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Lollipop 2232
LG G Flex2 2086
LG G4 F500L (S.Korea) 1939
HTC One M9 1681
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML review 1486
Overall, LG G4 didn't impress in our benchmark performance tests. We will revisit them when we get our hands on a retail unit of the device, but the early signs don't look promising.
It is important to note, that we didn't experience any hiccups while using the smartphone in real life - LG G4 felt snappy and ultra-responsive regardless of the task we threw at it. High-end gaming wasn't an issue either - LG G4 ran Dead Trigger 2 and Real Racing 3 without breaking a sweat.
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