![]() What this means is that Windows 10 Mobile itself has sped things up by around 20% in going from the Redstone 1 branch to the Redstone 2 branch. However, look at the benchmark statistics - the Elite X3 (and its Snapdragon 820 chipset) is well over 10% faster than the Lumia 950 XL when it comes to calculations and intensive graphics operations. So, looking at real world tasks in the Windows 10 Mobile interface, the Elite X3 seems at first glance to be over 10% slower than the Lumia 950 XL, which is not what you'd expect. And, obviously, the higher the scores, the better. * I included these benchmarks for interest sake - they're not definitive by any means, in terms of comparing with other phones on other platforms, but still give a flavour of raw power. To the 'look at the day' vertical panorama, All applications were latest versions, updated in the Store, of course.īooting up to fully populated Start screen.In each case, I timed the operation several times and picked the fastest.I do include a typical benchmark figure at the bottom of the table.we're looking at cold start timings on the whole. ![]() The timings also assume that each app wasn't previously open or 'tombstoned', i.e.As usual, I've concentrated mainly on real world operations, I don't believe that processor and GPU-bound benchmarking utilities tell a complete story - what matters is how fast the phones are when being used for real.So, we're stuck with data points that don't seem to make sense at first, but which are explained away by the OS itself improving (I know, I know, shock horror!) Some notes: And, for obvious reasons, I can't advance the latter device to newer builds as I intend to report on official Elite X3 updates. ![]() the Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update. The Snapdragon 820 is built using Samsung’s 14nm FinFET process, compared to the 20nm process used for the Snapdragon 810, and it's this that mainly gives the performance and power benefits.īy popular request, I've pitched the Elite X3 against the existing Lumia 950 XL, though there's a massive caveat in the stats below in that the Lumia 950 XL is, as readers will know from all my news stories, running the latest Redstone 2 'Fast' ring build of Windows 10 Mobile, while the HP Elite X3 is running the 'production' version of Redstone 1, a.k.a. It's also 30% less power hungry, potentially, which is a neat trick, though seems to be borne out in practice, though the Elite X3's monster 4150mAh battery helps a lot too. I should start with a few speed tests, seeing as the Snapdragon 820 chipset is supposed to be faster than the Snapdragon 810 chipset in (say) the Lumia 950 XL. The Elite X3 is now fast and stable - and I try to quantify this below, along with a look at Office, Continuum and the Desk Dock, using the phone as a true portable computer. And I'm very glad that both HP and myself waited until the device was on the Anniversary Update for the formal AAWP review - this is a very different device to that which we handled in June and then played with in initial retail form in August. Last week saw my first review part, looking at the HP Elite X3's hardware and where it's pitched in the world of mobile computing.
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