Recently, Nothing released Nothing OS 2.5.1 Open Beta Update 2 based on Android 14 for phones (1). The update was sent via OTA to Phone(1) users on Nothing OS 2.5.1 Open Beta 1. The update doesn’t add any new features compared to previous updates, but fixes some known bugs and brings improvements to various parts of the UI.
The update also brings improvements in various aspects like performance, background process management, camera, and connectivity. Let’s now take a look at the performance improvements with the Nothing OS 2.5.1 Open Beta 2 update compared to the Open Beta 1 update.
Nothing Phone (1) Performance testing after Nothing OS 2.5.1 Open Beta 2 update
The Nothing Phone (1) was released with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ SoC which is a 5G processor based on 4nm fabrication and is a very stable and decently powerful processor. It is also equipped with Adreno 642L GPU, the latest LPDDR5 RAM type, and fast UFS 3.1 storage.
We ran the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark test on our Nothing Phone (1) and saw a slight drop in the single-core score, as the score dropped by 47 points, and a larger drop in the multi-core score, which dropped by 143 points.
The GPU benchmark gave almost the same score as before, which is around 2300 points for the OpenCL score, thus the GPU performance remains the same.
We also conducted a CPU throttling test, which determines processor stability and performance. This tells us when the processor is throttled when it is pushed to its limits. We ran the test for 15 minutes, with the previous build limiting the CPU to 95% of its maximum performance and the latest Open Beta 2 version limited to 92%, which is slightly lower than the previous version. However the Open Beta 2 version also gave a slightly better average GPS score of 249091 compared to the previous build’s 244779. This shows that Nothing has maintained the same throttling performance as the previous build, while still managing to bump up the performance, meaning it can handle CPU-intensive tasks for longer periods of time without impacting performance. Is.
We also ran the AnTuTu Benchmark V9.5.7 test to monitor changes in the overall performance of the smartphone and here, the phone (1) with Open Beta 1 performed slightly better than the latest Open Beta 2 update by a difference of 7734 points, but the previous The latest version got better GPU scores compared to the previous version. Thus, overall CPU and GPU performance remains the same.
Performance testing shows that the overall CPU and GPU performance of the phone (1) remains more or less the same compared to the previous build. The phone doesn’t throttle much and maintains consistent performance in day-to-day tasks and smoothness throughout the UI. The latest update has also optimized background process termination and performance when low on memory.
