Hardware Overview and CPU Functioning

Within 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 yous're interested in farther details about this chip.

In short, the Snapdragon 808 features 2 ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores clocked at 1.82 GHz alongside four Cortex-A53 cores at ane.44 GHz, resulting in a two-cluster, hexa-core configuration. At that place'due south also an Adreno 418 GPU clocked at 600 MHz, and a 64-bit LPDDR3 memory controller providing 14.nine GB/s of bandwidth, connected to 3 GB of RAM in the Moto Ten Mode.

Equally for connectivity, the Moto X Style packs Category 6 LTE, HSPA+, 2G, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/yard/n/ac with MIMO support, Bluetooth iv.1 LE, GPS+GLONASS, and NFC. The LTE and HSPA+ bands in the Moto X Style differ slightly from the bands included with the Moto X Pure Edition, despite both phones beingness substantially identical, while the Pure Edition too supports United States' CDMA networks.

For storage nosotros're looking at 16 GB in the $399 base model, with 32 GB and 64 GB models also available for $50 and $100 extra respectively. Normally sixteen GB would exist a bit slim on the storage front for a high-stop device, but the inclusion of a microSD carte slot mitigates this consequence somewhat. 16 GB microSD cards are bachelor for as low as $7 on Amazon, and although you won't go the same performance every bit internal NAND from a microSD, it's an extremely cheap way to upward the storage to 32 GB.

The Moto X Mode also includes two "processors" that Motorola calls the "tongue processor" and "contextual computing processor". Without taking apart the Moto X Fashion, information technology's unclear whether these are merely part of the Snapdragon 808 or are divide fries, but they will facilitate some of Motorola's always-on phonation and gesture features.

In CPU-heavy benchmarks, the Moto 10 Manner outperformed the LG G4, which also features a Snapdragon 808 SoC, by just over ten pct. I doubtable this is due to amend thermal management in the X Manner's design, leading to higher sustained clock speeds, too as improved software across the lath.

The Moto X Style marginally falls behind the other summit Android devices out there. The Galaxy Note 5 boasts CPU performance 4% college than the Fashion, while the Milky way S6 is just 2% faster. On the other hand, the Style is faster in CPU-express scenarios than some of the Snapdragon 810 devices I've reviewed, such every bit the OnePlus 2 (by 16%), the LG G Flex two (by eighteen%) and the HTC 1 M9 (by 29%).

Compared to the last-generation Moto X (2014), the Moto X Style was 16% faster in CPU-limited benchmarks, and 29% faster overall later factoring in an increase in NAND performance and GPU performance.