Sections
- Page 1 Sony Xperia 1 Review
- Page 2 Camera Review
- Page 3 Battery Life Review
- Page 4 Screen Review
- Page 5 Performance Review
How good is the performance on the Xperia 1?
- The Xperia 1 has a Snapdragon 855 chipset and performs well. It’s fast and can handle any game with ease.
- The phone includes 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage and a slot for a microSD card.
- There’s no 5G here, although this is still a rarity.
Sony has packed the Xperia 1 with all the usual specs for a 2019 flagship Android: Snapdragon 855, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. This is fast becoming the go-to setup for a high-end phone.
Like the Samsung Galaxy S10 and LG G8, the Xperia 1 is fast. It’s nippy in regular use and when gaming. It doesn’t feel quite as snappy as the OnePlus 7 Pro (which remains the fastest overall Android phone); however, I’ll put that down to the difference in the screen refresh rates.
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Sony Xperia 1 processor: Geekbench 4
Geekbench 4 is a CPU-focused benchmark that tests many aspects of a phone’s processor. We run all the phones we review through Geekbench, since it offers a general score for overall performance and it’s become very popular for doing so.
The results churned out of the app include scores for both single-core and multi-core performance. Single-core scores used to be the most important metric of a phone’s performance, since most Android apps are optimised to use only a single thread. However, advances in Android mean more and more processes are multi-thread.
Scores from the Xperia 1 are what I’d expected. It beats the Huawei P30 Pro, marginally, in both scores and drops comfortably behind the iPhone XS.
Sony Xperia 1 overall system: AnTuTu
AnTuTu is a generalist benchmark that synthetically tests everything from theoretical performance when playing intensive games to basic picture filter editing and scrolling.
The Sony Xperia 1 scores excellently in this test and results are among the best we’ve seen from all the devices reviewed.
Sony Xperia 1 graphics: 3DMark
3DMark’s Slingshot benchmark focuses on checking a phone’s GPU (graphics) performance. If you’re a big mobile gamer then this is an important metric. Since the Xperia 1 is a high-end phone, the differences between the various devices in the chart above are minimal. The Xperia 1 can play every game on the Play Store and you won’t notice much lag or dropped frames.
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