Google Nexus 6 By Motorola With Android Lollipop Review

Name: Nexus 6 By Motorola
Brand: Nexus

by Jennifer Johnson — Monday, December 15, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

AnTuTu’s latest benchmark returns a number of scores—too many to graph so we’re including a look at all the numbers in a table. This test measures subsystem performance in various areas like Database IO, Storage IO, CPU (Int. and Float), GPU (3D), and RAM (speed).

AnTuTu, Mobile XPRT, GeekBench Benchmarks

General System, CPU and User Experiential Performance

antutu

The Nexus 6 took second place overall here, just behind the iPhone 6 Plus and beating out the Galaxy Note 4. If you examine the scores a bit closer, you’ll see that the Nexus 6 edges out the iPhone 6 Plus in a few of the individual tests.

mobilexprt

The MobileXPRT benchmark runs through a variety of tests to evaluate the responsiveness of a device along with its ability to handle many everyday workloads. The results from the Nexus 6 echoed the results from AnTuTu’s benchmark. Here again, the Nexus 6 performed very well and took second place in both the Overall score and User Experience Score.

geekbench

In terms of its multi-core performance, the Nexus 6 takes the top spot according to GeekBench. In the single-core test, the Nexus 6 comes in third place behind the iPhone 6 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

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Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.

Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.

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