In about one week from now, the Google Nexus 6 will be getting its big reveal, and we now know a whole lot about the device we should be seeing supplanting the Nexus 5 when it gets released next month. None of these details are official, and specs can only tell you so much about what a mobile device can do, but new Geekbench benchmarks have revealed that the Nexus 6 could hold its own against other flagship-level devices.
Again, Phone Arena is the eagle-eyed source of these leaked benchmarks, and the Geekbench 3.2 results show that the Nexus 6, a.k.a. the Google/Motorola “shamu”, is quite an impressive device, though right behind the present iPhone 6 and the previous-gen iPhone 5s in one test. In single-core testing, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s scored 1,630 and 1,323 respectively, both of which are higher scores than the third-place Nexus 6’s 1,040 – take note that the tests show the device as the “Nexus X,” but the “shamu” codename leaves no doubt as to what device was tested against other high-end heroes.
Moving on to multi-core testing, the Nexus 6/Nexus X made it to the top, scoring 3,199 and beating out the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (2,998), the iPhone 6 (2,927), the Galaxy S5 (2,900) and the outgoing Nexus 5 (2,889). The iPhone 5s, which did so well in single-core testing, was at the bottom of this multi-core test with a score of 2,240.
Rumored Nexus 6 specifications include a 5.9-inch, 2560 x 1440 QHD display, a quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor with 3 GB RAM, an impressive 3,200 mAh battery, and a 13-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization and a dual-ring flash setup. The device may come with a mediocre 2-megapixel front shooter that makes it good for video calls, but not so for selfies, but all in all, the Nexus 6 is shaping up to be a phone that’s much better than the device it will be replacing as Google’s flagship, the Nexus 5.