Most major manufacturers recently rolled out the Android 5.0 Lollipop
update to their respective flagships and we were more then eager to test
how their performance has changed now that Lollipop is here. The speed
comparison will be done on our usual battery of synthetic benchmarks.
So, does Lollipop improve performance or make it worse? Read on to find out.
Our expectations were high as Android 5.0 made the jump to a new
runtime, ART, which replaces the Dalvik. Dalvik uses Just-in-time
compilation – after the app is already running, so it has to be done
quickly, leaving little time for optimization.
ART meanwhile does ahead-of-time compilation – that “Optimizing apps”
screen you get at first boot. You may have noticed that it takes longer
than before, the reason being the phone is compiling the apps and
spending time to optimize them properly.
This requires a word of warning too – as ART is a new runtime, some
apps suffer from some issues, but with multiple benchmarks a issue with a
single test shouldn’t be a problem overall.
Ready, set, go! The first lap is around the Geekbench 3 ring and the
Galaxy S5 keeps in top position with a small increase in score. The HTC
One (M8) and Nexus 5 got much bigger boosts, while the LG G3 has
actually gotten worse.
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