Nexus M1 Marlin Benchmark Scores: Google's Next Flagship Handset Up There With The Best [VIDEO]
Just like the Nexus One back in 2010, this year's Nexus devices are set to be manufactured by smartphone giant HTC. Confirming rumors that emerged earlier this year, recent leaks have shown that HTC would be producing two handsets with the Nexus branding on this year. The phones even have code names, Sailfish and Marlin.
While the devices' Nexus branding is almost an assurance for quality and performance, recent results on Geekbench have revealed the scores of the more powerful of the two devices, code-named Marlin. As could be expected from the successor of the Nexus 6P, the Marlin is indeed a powerhouse of a phone.
In the test, where the device was labeled simply as the Google Marlin, the smartphone was able to achieve a single core score of 2084 and a multi-core score of 4969. With these scores, the Marlin's performance would be along the levels of the iPhone 6S and the HTC 10, which have scored 4417 and 1962, respectively.
The Marlin's 4696 score, however, falls below the scores of the LG G and the Snapdragon 820 version of the Galaxy S7, whose impressive scores registered 5386 and 5398. Also, the Marlin falls significantly behind the Exynos version of the Galaxy S7, which was able to achieve a very formidable score of 6542.
Despite the fact that the LG G5 and both versions of the Galaxy S7 scored higher than the Marlin, it is almost safe to assume that the device would surely perform just as well as LS and Samsung's flagships. After all, the Marlin would feature vanilla Android Nougat, which is absent of any bloatware from manufacturers.
Apart from the benchmark scores, the Geekbench results show that the smartphone is running Android Nougat and is equipped with 4GB of RAM. The processor is not named, but its scores suggest that it would probably be the Snapdragon 821 or 823, which, at least on paper, is expected to perform far better than previous flagships that have been released so far.
The Marlin, together with its smaller counterpart, the Sailfish, is expected to launch sometime in September. The exact date of the device's reveal, however, has not been revealed by Google.
