Hardware Overview and CPU Performance

As is expected, the OnePlus two features a generational SoC upgrade on the OnePlus Ane, moving from a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 to a Snapdragon 810. In my prior testing of the octa-core Snapdragon 810 I didn't encounter a huge difference in operation between it and the hexa-cadre Snapdragon 808, but OnePlus seems to take opted for the Snapdragon 810 to truly make the OnePlus 2 a 2022 flagship killer.

The Snapdragon 810 features four ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores clocked at 1.96 GHz aslope 4 Cortex-A53 CPU cores at 1.56 GHz. The larger A57 cores are designed for high performance tasks, while the A53s are more ofttimes used for general tasks and low power processing. Both clusters are ARMv8-based, meaning they fully support 64-chip code, and Global Task Scheduling allows the SoC to act as a truthful octa-core processor with all eight cores operating simultaneously where necessary.

The GPU in the Snapdragon 810 is Qualcomm's custom-made Adreno 430 clocked at 600 MHz. In that location'due south also a Hexagon V56 DSP clocked at 800 MHz, dual-ISPs for ane.2 GP/due south of bandwidth, and 4K HEVC/H.265 encoding and decoding. As for memory bandwidth, the dual-channel 32-scrap LPDDR4-1600 retention controller provides 25.half-dozen GB/s of throughput. The OnePlus 2 comes with either 3 or 4 GB of RAM depending on whether y'all get the model with 16 GB or 64 GB of eMMC 5.0-based internal storage.

The Snapdragon 810 supports LTE Category 9 for 450 Mbps of downstream bandwidth and 50 Mbps upstream, with the OnePlus 2's North American model supporting FDD-LTE on bands i, 2, 4, 5, vii, 8, 12 and 17. Unfortunately the lack of band iii support makes this model largely unsuitable for use in Europe and Asia, with OnePlus producing a separate model for these regions. All OnePlus 2s come with two SIM bill of fare slots.

The OnePlus ii as well comes with Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/thou/n/ac, Bluetooth iv.ane, and GPS+GLONASS support. OnePlus has decided not to include NFC support in the OnePlus 2, as apparently not enough people used the feature in the original OnePlus One. This is a little bit baffling to me, as Google is just about to launch their NFC-based payment solution, Android Pay. Without NFC support in the OnePlus 2, the device will non be able to run Android Pay, unlike the vast majority of its flagship competitors. While NFC isn't currently in widespread utilize, in a year's fourth dimension its omission from the OnePlus 2 to save a few dollars might be quite annoying.

There is no microSD card slot in the OnePlus 2, then if you desire to aggrandize upon the included storage, y'all tin can't. The base 16 GB model is definitely on the slim side for storage, so I'd highly recommend spending the extra money to get the 64 GB model. Plus you also get an upgrade to iv GB of RAM (although I don't expect the deviation in RAM capacities to make much of a difference in terms of functioning).

Let's take a expect at how the OnePlus two performs in CPU-intensive tasks.

Every bit far as CPU functioning is concerned, the OnePlus ii performs as expected for a Snapdragon 810 device. It was slightly faster than the HTC One M9 and LG M Flex 2, both Snapdragon 810 devices, in most tests, just slightly slower than the Samsung Milky way S6. This is a pretty decent upshot for the Snapdragon 810, considering its bug in the two aforementioned devices.