If you haven't read the new 5x review go do it now http://www.anandtech.com/show/9742/the-google-nexus-5x-review/3 scroll down to Sustained Performance, this i believe should be the new benchmark of smartphones.
Every time qualcomm releases a new cpu its 30% faster, 25% more efficient, has faster ram, faster gpu...
All those fancy new features are only good for 12 minutes?
Every time qualcomm releases a new cpu its 30% faster, 25% more efficient, has faster ram, faster gpu...
Snapdragon 808 can only keep its two A57 cores at their peak frequency for two minutes before throttling both down to 633MHz and putting the A53s up to their peak 1.44GHz. After twelve minutes the A57s are just shut off entirely, and you're left with a cluster of 4 A53 cores at 1.44GHz.
All those fancy new features are only good for 12 minutes?