Hey guys it’s Sagar from Tecworkz.
In this video, let us do a speed test comparison
between the OnePlus Nord and its bigger brother
the OnePlus 8.
Now although these 2 phones are not competing
with each other, some of you requested me
to make this video.
And while we know that the OnePlus 8 is going
to be faster, even I wanted to check out how
big of a difference will we see.
Now the OnePlus Nord comes with a midrange
gaming centric Snapdragon 765G processor,
where as the OnePlus 8 comes with the flagship
Snapdragon 865 processor.
The OnePlus Nord that I have here comes with
8GB of RAM, and the OnePlus 8 that we see
here comes with 12 GB of RAM.
We will start with a boot up test.
OnePlus 8 was about 5 seconds faster to boot
up.
Now I have cleared all the apps from memory,
put both the phones on airplane mode so I
won’t be disturbed by any calls between
the test, and they are both connected to the
same Wi-Fi network.
At-least they were till I powered them off.
When both of them were turned on, OnePlus
8 connected to the Wi-Fi network by itself,
but for some reason I had to reconnected the
Nord to the wifi network between this test.
Anyways, we will start by looking at the geekbench
scores of both these phones.
Then we will open some basic apps and slowly
move on to the more demanding ones, followed
by a RAM management round, to see how many
apps both of them have open in the background.
OnePlus 8 is a bit quicker at opening the
Geekbench 5 app.
Both the single and multi core score of the
of the OnePlus 8 is way higher than the OnePlus
Nord, which is to be expected due to the difference
in specs on both these phones.
But these benchmark scored don’t give us
a complete idea of a phones everyday performance,
so to check that let’s begin our speed test
comparison.
OnePlus 8 is a hair faster in opening the
settings app.
Next is calculator, and we see the same thing,
8 is a hair faster than the Nord.
Next is the camera app, and OnePlus 8 is noticeably
faster at opening it.
I will switch to the front camera on both,
to see if they can keep the camera app open
in the background.
Then we move to the Play store, and this is
where I realised that the OnePlus Nord did
not connect to the wifi network by itself
when I turned on both these phones.
So after connecting it to the wifi network
and closing the Play store app on both the
phones, I reopened it, and again the OnePlus
8 was a bit faster in loading all the content
on the Play store page.
Next is the chrome browser, and both opened
it and the loaded the webpage at the same
time.
So this one is a Tie.
Then we move on to twitter, and again both
loaded it at the exact same time.
We see identical result while opening up Instagram
and heading over to my profile page.
Both loaded it at the same time.
For youtube, OnePlus 8 was a hair faster,
but the difference is barely visible.
Netflix opened up a second quicker on the
OnePlus 8.
Amazon Prime also loaded a few milliseconds
quicker on the OnePlus 8.
We saw same results with the Amazon Shopping
app.
Snapseed opened at the same time on both,
so again its a tie.
Now we move on to a few games, starting with
a pretty basic one, the Subway Surfers.
OnePlus 8 was about 4 seconds quicker at opening
it.
Next is Asphalt 9.
It is a heavy game, so let’s see which one
loads it first.
OnePlus 8 was able to load it first, but Nord
was just 4 seconds behind it.
Now I will open up everyone’s favourite
game PUBG Mobile.
OnePlus 8 was quicker, but the Nord was again
just 5 seconds behind.
So despite of the huge difference in the specs
and benchmark scores, We are yet to see a
the corresponding huge difference in the performance
between these 2 phones.
Next is Real Racing 3, and this is the first
app where we see a big difference in the app
load time between these 2 phones.
Then I opened Call of duty, and again the
OnePlus 8 is much faster at opening it, and
the Nord took about 10-15 more seconds to
load it up.
Finally here is VideoShop.
8 was a bit quicker in opening it.
I will import a same 28 second 1080p video
file on both.
Both were equally quick at the import.
Now we will slow the clips down to half their
speed, which the OnePlus 8 was a bit faster
at doing.
And then exporting these clips to the gallery
on both the phones.
OnePlus 8 flew through this task, and the
Nord took 12 more seconds to export the clip
to the gallery.
So yes, the OnePlus 8 is faster at opening
all the heavy apps, and even some of the basic
ones.
But you have to decide for yourself, if the
difference between their speeds is worth the
difference between their price to you or not.
Alright, now let’s go back and see which
of these phones, have the most number of apps
open in their memory.
Now remember, the Nord that I have has 8GB
of RAM and the OnePlus 8 has 12GB of RAM.
Both of them had no problems keeping the last
4 apps open in the background.
But they had to reload the Asphalt 9.
Now this is because the game not very well
optimised, to stay open in the background.
Moving on, both had the Subway surfers and
Snapped open in the background.
And both had to reload the Amazon Shopping
app.
Prime video and Netflix were open in the background
on both the phones.
But the Nord had to reload the Youtube app.
While the Nord has the Instagram and Twitter
app open in the background, for some reason,
it takes more time to show these open apps.
Both had chrome tab open in the background,
but the Nord had to reload the Google Play
store app.
None of them had the camera app open in the
background.
Calculator was in memory on both and Nord
had to reload the Settings app.
So while the OnePlus 8 had most of the apps
if not all, open in the background, with 12
GB of RAM I expected a bit more out of it.
Nords RAM management is also not that great
in my opinion.
Leaving the few last opened apps, It also
had to reload many apps.
Hopefully OnePlus will optimise the software
a bit more with a few updates.
So there you have it guys.
Speed test comparison between the OnePlus
Nord and the OnePlus 8.
Considering their price point, Let me know
in the comments, which one you think did better.
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