LG V40 ThinQ Review: A Five Camera Android Contender

Name: LG V40 ThinQ
Brand: LG

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, October 03, 2018, 05:00 PM EDT

Next we'll test the LG V40 ThinQ with GFXBench, which has been one of our standard mobile graphics benchmarks for quite a while now. In order to ensure display refresh (v-sync) and resolution are not limiting factors, we are comparing off-screen test results here. GFXBench tests OpenGL ES graphics workloads; we're specifically testing GLES 2.0 and 3.0 rendering performance in the following two benchmark modules.

3D Graphics Benchmarks: 3DMark & GFX Bench

Pushing The Pixels

As we've seen in a couple of previous tests, the LG V40 ThinQ's GPU performance is somewhat better than the G7 ThinQ. As a result, the LG V40 ThinQ finishes slightly better than the G7 ThinQ here, but trails the OnePlus 6 and Galaxy S9s.

We also ran Futuremark's 3DMark, which has been a staple 3D graphics benchmark at HotHardware across all mobile and desktop platforms for many years. In this case we were running 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which is targeted for mobile devices and also runs at 720p in offscreen mode, so as to take display resolution out of the equation. This test and its 3D graphics engine are also based on the Open GL ES 2.0 API.

3DMark Ice Storm is a lighter-duty synthetic gaming benchmark that's been around for a while, so we happen to have a lot of reference device data to compare to. Here the LG V40 ThinQ drops in just behind the G7 ThinQ by the slimmest of margins.

3DMark Sling Shot is a newer benchmark module that's been added to the 3DMark mobile suite, so we have fewer results in our database to share, though we do have a few top-shelf Android phones, the iPhone X, and Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 in the mix. Sling Shot is a much more advanced OpenGL ES 3.1 and Metal API-based test that employs some advanced rendering techniques like volumetric lighting, particle illumination, multiple render targets, instanced rendering, uniform buffers, and transform feedback.

Futuremark 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme Benchmark

In this test we again run the off-screen mode, so as to remove display resolution differences from the equation and thus can compare cross-platform results more reliably.

In this more strenuous benchmark, the LG V40 ThinQ once again drops in just behind the LG G7 ThinQ. Its performance in somewhere in-between the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Note 9, which is to say it is very good, but not quite class-leading.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com