Early Nexus 6 Benchmarks Show Killer Results

[CherlynnLow]

Results on Geekbench show that a possible new Nexus smartphone could blow the competition out of the water.

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[Niva]

I hope there will be variants other than a 5.9 screen... every rumor says this though, I guess I'll have to wait a while more before upgrading.

 

[Honest Truthy]

Bogus! How many apps these days and in the near future are going to be multi-threaded? Right, very few if any. Apple has it right. These stats are really insignificant.

The Nexus 6 will be a dud, sad to say. Let's just hope Google aren't complete idiots (we know they are idiots but the Nexus 6 will prove to what extent) and give people a newer Nexus 5 instead of a Nexus 6 priced comparably to the Note 4.

 

[MrGulio]

I hope there will be variants other than a 5.9 screen... every rumor says this though, I guess I'll have to wait a while more before upgrading.

And everyone took the iPhone 6 as having a Sapphire screen as a given. We don't really know until the phone is announced.

 

[Evrain Brandigan]

Truth hurts indeed, Apple fanboy. Cry more.

 

[somebodyspecial]

Not sure why this can't be a K1 also. Shield tablet scores almost the same (a bit better) at 3276 and is 64bit if Denver is used.
http://browser.primatelabs.com/android-benchmarks

Also the single core score was 1091 for shield tablet vs. 1040 here for shamu nexus 6 unit, so it seems you could go either way perf wise at least in geekbench. Do we really know what this SOC is yet (in a shipping unit that is, despite geekbench unit showing qcom) without an FCC filing (or did I miss that)?

Since shield tablet has an LTE version now, I guess you could even see a multi part launch like Samsung does (where Qcom is used in 1/2 the world and samsung soc used in the other 1/2), where they may use Qcom in 1/2 and K1 in the other to ensure enough chips for a big launch, or split them for 32bit on a cheaper one and 64bit on the K1 version (clearly the better gamer). If I was google, I'd want Denver for 64bit, as that is a selling point (along with the best gaming soc out there) even if it doesn't mean much today.

To the public at large, they still think 64 is twice as big as 32...LOL. Sad but true, and that will sell units and make your device unique on android, just like Apple currently can brag about this and they have it as one of their selling points on the apple website. If the nexus 9 is 64bit, I can't see why you'd want to hamper sales with a S805 shipping AndroidL. People will look at it vs. the nexus 9 and wonder why there are no claims of 64bit for nexus 6. I don't know why google would hamper gaming AND ditch the opportunity to claim 64bit. Those are BOTH big selling points (even if the 64bit is ..meh for now in reality).

IF they don't sell a 64bit one with Denver (considering this comes AFTER the nexus 9 which is supposed to have Denver), then yes, I agree nexus 6 will be a partial dud at best. Someone WILL release a 6/7in with Denver/64bit and that will be the end of Nexus 6 sales IMHO.

 

[bobby21]

This is utter rubbish... go to the Geekbench site and compare the supposed Shamu results with the iPhone 6... many of the sub scores are only marginally better if not WORSE than the iPhone 6. Any why all the missing CPU cache info etc? Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Apple fanboi (i've been looking forward to the Nexus 6 as much as the next Android user) but I just don't think there is anything special here. TBH, it all looks a little fake. Like every other Nexus 6 rumor.