Hardware Overview and Arrangement Operation

The OnePlus 5 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC, which I start discussed in my review of the Xiaomi Mi six. It's an octa-core 10nm SoC with 8 Kryo 280 CPU cores split into a 2.45 GHz performance cluster and a ane.9 GHz efficient cluster, each with four cores. There's as well an Adreno 540 GPU clocked up to 710 MHz, and an LPDDR4X retentiveness controller skilful for 29.8 GB/s of bandwidth.

The OnePlus 5 specifically is equipped with up to Category 12/13 LTE, so it'south not utilizing the total capabilities of the integrated Snapdragon X16 modem, which supports up to Cat. xvi. With 3CA, 256QAM support in the downstream, y'all tin can withal achieve up to 600 Mbps depending on your carrier. There'south as well Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/air-conditioning support with 2x2 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0, the usual array of GPS and NFC.

There are two RAM and storage configurations for the OnePlus v: 6GB of RAM with 64GB of NAND, and 8GB of RAM with 128GB of NAND. Both configurations come with fast UFS ii.1 storage, though no microSD card slot. I received the 8/128GB variant to review, and to be honest, I didn't notice any pregnant performance differences between this device and phones with 6GB or fifty-fifty 4GB of RAM I've used in the by.

It wasn't surprising to discover that the OnePlus 5 is a mighty fast phone, cheers to its pairing of a fast SoC and near-stock Android. You'll get a slap-up experience here.

I have heard nigh OnePlus cheating in benchmarks with the OnePlus five, but in do this seemed to have basically no effect on performance. The OnePlus 5 was merely 0.7% faster than the Xiaomi Mi half-dozen on average across eighteen CPU-limited tests, which is well inside the margin of error. Whatever OnePlus is doing in the groundwork is conspicuously not giving information technology much of an actual reward in benchmarks, and it certainly didn't button the phone in a higher place its closest competitor.

Equally the phone is basically as fast as the Mi 6, everything I said about that phone applies here. Information technology's 31% faster than the LG G6, 24% faster than the Exynos Galaxy S8+, and 13% faster than the Huawei P10. These phones apply the Snapdragon 821, Exynos 8895, and Kirin 960 respectively.