SOFTWARE AND BENCHMARKS
The OnePlus 7 runs Android 9 with OnePlus’s Oxygen
OS extensions on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset,
the same one that’s in the Galaxy S10 line and the LG
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benchmark, compared with 9,099 on the Galaxy S10
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why the OnePlus got ever-so-slightly higher scores than
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OnePlus says the phone has a special cooling system
that lets it run at top speed for extended periods of
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app, the 7 Pro was running at 92 percent of top
processing potential, as compared with the Galaxy S10e
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The OnePlus 7
displays 1.5
frames for every
one frame most
other phones
do, resulting in
what appears to
be smoother
scrolling.