OPPO R5 Smartphone Review

While OPPO did not include one of the latest Snapdragon 800-series processors, a Snapdragon 615 has been well utilised. Complementing this is 2GB of RAM.

The CPU features 8 cores, with clock speeds ranging between 0.8 to 1.5GHz. This allows the R5 processor to be more power-efficient, as cores turn themselves off – or slow down – when they are not all needed.

This all adds up to make the OPPO R5 a powerful device, and more than enough for your everyday tasks. Multi-tasking was fast and efficient, and we were never kept waiting for the display to turn back on, or the keyboard to pop-up when sending a message. Games, too, played very well and look great on the display.

The excellent real-world performance carried over to the benchmarks. In Geekbench 3, the R5 scored 680 for its single-core performance, and 2632 for its multi-core score. This makes it the most powerful device we have tested to date, and in the same league as the similarly priced Nexus 5 – which scored 823 and 2491, respectively.

A score of 8396 in 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited is not as good, though, with the Nexus 5 pulling ahead with 13407.

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