Asus ZenFone 5 LTE Smartphone Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. Design4. Display5. Software6. Performance7. Camera8. Battery9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

Rather than Intel Atom processors, such as the Z2580 in the ZenFone 6, a Snapdragon 400 CPU handles things with the ZenFone 5 LTE. Paired with this is a solid 2GB of RAM.

Before coming to benchmarks, we look at how the phone deals with everyday usage. Here, it is superb. Opening apps, and switching between several at once, is handled effortlessly by the quad-core CPU.

The same can be said for simple games we played, including Temple Run 2 and Flappy Bird (which we still enjoy) – they ran smoothly and without lag. In everyday usage, we didn't have a single problem with the phone, something to be commended.

In the benchmarks, though, the ZenFone 5 LTE didn't live up to its real-world performance. In Geekbench 3 it scored 346 for single-core performance, and 1136 for its multi-core performance. This lags behind the ZenFone 6, which posted 551 and 1283, respectively.

In 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited the ZenFone 5 LTE got a score of 4651, again behind its bigger brother which scored 7278.

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