Hardware Overview and System Performance

The Moto G4 Plus comes with a Snapdragon 617 SoC, which is an evolutionary upgrade on the Snapdragon 616, itself an upgrade on the Snapdragon 615. Unlike the move to the S616, the S617 doesn't just alter the clock speeds of the CPU cores: it as well improves retention bandwidth and wireless radio support.

The S617 comes with an octa-core CPU configuration split into two 4-core clusters. All cores are ARM Cortex-A53s, with the "big" cluster clocked at one.52 GHz, and the "Lilliputian" at i.21 GHz. Interestingly, the S617 really features a clock speed reduction on the big cluster, which sat at 1.7 GHz on the S616. Information technology's odd that Qualcomm would look to subtract CPU performance hither, although it may exist for ability consumption reasons.

The Adreno 405 GPU in the S617 is still clocked at 550 MHz, so there are no changes here compared to the S616. The retention subsystem uses 32-bit LPDDR3, although a clock speed increase to 933 MHz pushes retentivity bandwidth upwards to 7.5 GB/s. The amount of RAM you become depends on the corporeality of storage: two GB of RAM accompanies 16 GB of storage, or 4 GB with 64 GB.

The S617 includes an updated X8 LTE modem, which supports up to Category 7 LTE (upwardly from Category four in the S616), notwithstanding the Moto G4 Plus itself just supports Category 4 LTE. The The states model supports by far the nearly LTE bands (12), while the standard and Indian models only support 5 bands, uniquely including band 20 and twoscore respectively. Five-band HSPA support is included with all models.

Other connectivity includes Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/thousand/north/air-conditioning on two.four GHz and v.0 GHz, Bluetooth iv.2, and A-GPS. There's no NFC in this device, which probably could have been included at its $250 cost point.

General system performance from the Moto G4 Plus is average. This handset doesn't really feel any faster to utilize than the 2022 Moto G, which is powered by a Snapdragon 410 SoC, and despite the hardware advantages of the S617 there's notwithstanding a "upkeep" feel to the performance of the G4 Plus. This is somewhat concerning, as last year's Moto G is significantly cheaper than the G4 Plus.

The main issue here is the S617's CPU performance. Despite having 4 more cores than the S410, operation in CPU limited workloads is only 21 percent better, which is a little less than the difference in clock speeds betwixt the 'big' cores. This highlights a key bespeak about eight-core CPUs: the terminal iv cores don't matter at all.

21 percent performance improvements are decent, only this boilerplate is dominated by a huge performance gain in PCMark'southward photo editing test. Have out that outlier, and gains drop to under ten percent, which is well below what I'd look for the hardware differences. Because both the Moto G 2022 and the Moto G4 Plus come up with the same amount of RAM (2GB) in their sixteen GB models likewise, y'all can't wait any true generational gains in system operation.