Hardware Overview and CPU Performance

Inside the Moto X Style we're looking at the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC, which I covered extensively in my review of the LG G4 and should be your first port of call if you're interested in farther details about this chip.

In short, the Snapdragon 808 features 2 ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores clocked at ane.82 GHz alongside four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.44 GHz, resulting in a ii-cluster, hexa-core configuration. There's also an Adreno 418 GPU clocked at 600 MHz, and a 64-bit LPDDR3 memory controller providing xiv.9 GB/s of bandwidth, connected to 3 GB of RAM in the Moto X Style.

As for connectivity, the Moto X Style packs Category 6 LTE, HSPA+, 2G, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/air conditioning with MIMO support, Bluetooth iv.i LE, GPS+GLONASS, and NFC. The LTE and HSPA+ bands in the Moto 10 Style differ slightly from the bands included with the Moto X Pure Edition, despite both phones being essentially identical, while the Pure Edition as well supports United States' CDMA networks.

For storage we're looking at 16 GB in the $399 base model, with 32 GB and 64 GB models also available for $50 and $100 actress respectively. Normally xvi GB would be a chip slim on the storage front for a high-end device, but the inclusion of a microSD card slot mitigates this result somewhat. 16 GB microSD cards are available for as low as $vii on Amazon, and although you won't get the same performance every bit internal NAND from a microSD, it's an extremely cheap way to up the storage to 32 GB.

The Moto X Mode also includes 2 "processors" that Motorola calls the "tongue processor" and "contextual computing processor". Without taking autonomously the Moto X Style, it's unclear whether these are just role of the Snapdragon 808 or are separate chips, but they will facilitate some of Motorola'south always-on voice and gesture features.

In CPU-heavy benchmarks, the Moto Ten Style outperformed the LG G4, which besides features a Snapdragon 808 SoC, by just over x percent. I suspect this is due to better thermal management in the Ten Style'southward design, leading to higher sustained clock speeds, as well as improved software beyond the board.

The Moto X Fashion marginally falls behind the other top Android devices out at that place. The Galaxy Note 5 boasts CPU performance iv% higher than the Style, while the Galaxy S6 is just 2% faster. On the other paw, the Fashion is faster in CPU-limited scenarios than some of the Snapdragon 810 devices I've reviewed, such as the OnePlus ii (past 16%), the LG G Flex 2 (by 18%) and the HTC Ane M9 (by 29%).

Compared to the terminal-generation Moto X (2014), the Moto X Fashion was sixteen% faster in CPU-limited benchmarks, and 29% faster overall after factoring in an increment in NAND performance and GPU operation.