Processor & performance. Review on Xiaomi Redmi 3S Plus

Processor and performance.nWhat really impresses about the Redmi Note 3 is the SoC humming under the hood — the Snapdragon 650. Qualcomm had a rough 2015 with the horror that was the Snapdragon 810. Not only did Qualcomm suffer in the flagship smartphone space but also in the mid-end segment with the Snapdragon 615, which had its own set of performance issues. But it seems the year of the monkey, will bring good fortune for the company.The Snapdragon 650 has a hexa-core processor with two Cortex A72 cores and four Cortex A53 cores. It also comes with the Adreno 510 GPU and the combination blows everything away. In benchmarks, the Redmi Note 3 easily takes on smartphones like the Nexus 6P powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor and the Moto X Style, which runs on Snapdragon 808. It destroys the Helio X10 too.But I am not a big believer in synthetic benchmarks. They give you a good sense of the hardware’s capabilities but never the real world experience. The Snapdragon 650 doesn’t disappoint. I played Asphalt for about 20 minutes and the phone did not heat up, the game didn’t stutter and I couldn’t notice any significant frame drops either. I shotsome video on it, ditto, no heating up. I played video content for about 20 minutes, again nothing. Everything worked. This is not the Qualcomm silicon from 2015 and a lot can change over a year.