Graphics, Throttling and Storage Performance

The GPU in the S835 has besides received a healthy heave relative to the S821. We're seeing typical raw functioning gains of around 27 to 37 percent in offscreen GPU benchmarks, which is a handy gain that falls in line with what we're seeing on the CPU side. With screens at present extending beyond 2560 x 1440, the GPU is more capable of handling those extra pixels (not that the Mi 6 uses a screen of that resolution).

The comparing between the Adreno 540 and the Exynos 8895's Mali-G71 MP20 is rather interesting, as both GPUs trade blows in offscreen benchmarks. The Adreno 540 is anywhere from 11 percent faster to 8 percent slower depending on the offscreen test, while in other benchmarks like Basemark, the Adreno GPU falls well behind. Neither GPU is irksome, though, and thanks to the Mi 6'south 1080p resolution nosotros're seeing pretty large onscreen performance gains over 1440p displays.

And finally, compared to the Kirin 960's GPU, the Adreno 540 puts in a crushing functioning to beat the G71 MP8 past upwards of thirty percent.

Bad news, anybody. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 in the Xiaomi Mi half dozen throttles significantly nether a GPU-heavy workload. In GFXBench'south Manhattan 3.ane test, the Mi 6 gets cut down by 43 percent later 25 minutes, matching the level of throttling seen past the Exynos variant of the Milky way S8+. And this is even considering the lower resolution of the Mi half dozen's display. Heavy throttling is ever disappointing to see.

Storage performance follows the trend of the Milky way S8+, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if both phones employ the same internal storage. The Xiaomi Mi half dozen exhibits fantastic sequential performance, notwithstanding it suffers in random performance compared to the all-time smartphones on the market. Nevertheless, the NAND performance in full general here is pretty skilful.