[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cb474:
They did not say what benchmark it is. They did not say how long they ran it for. They did not indicate that they used the same benchmark on the different phones tested. They did not indicate that they ran the benchmark for the same amount of time on each phone.

They did indicate that the first part of the test ("playing with" the phones) was done differently on the different phones, without indicating any awareness that this makes the test meaningless. So there is no reason to assume they saw any reason to do the benchmarking in the same way on each phone. Nor, hence, is there any reason to assume that they in fact did do it in the same way. And probably it would be better to assume that they did not, since they did everything else in incredibly sloppy and inconsistent ways.

That's about as unscientific as it gets.

The article is scientific-y (in the same way that Colbert talks about the difference between truth and "truthiness"). But is anything but scientific.

They also demonstrated a total misunderstanding of what the actual problem and symptoms with the 810 chipset are (by focusing on heat, rather than throttling). So they pretty munch undermined any authority they might claim at every turn.

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Yes, exactly. It is just a trade off one way or the other. Heat or throttling, that is the choice. And really it's how much heat vs how much throttling, because it has to throttle or it will simply overheat and shutdown. But there is no "solution" that simply makes the problem go away.

People seem to overreact to this issue in two ways.

1) They are desparate to deny that it is a real issue and want to imagine there is a magic version of the 810 for each new phone that won't have the problem or a magical phone design that makes an intrinsic problem with the 810 disappear. And yet every single phone with the 810 demonstrates exactly the same problem. So they engage in denial and delude themselves into thinking the 810 in the 6P has special new sauce and is great a step forward like all newer chipsets.

2) If the 810 does have this problem and it can not be wished away or dimissed with glib comments, then that means the 810 sucks and should be avoided at all costs. But in fact the 810 if throttled properly, won't be hotter to the touch than any other phone, and will have good performance for most use case scenarios. However intensive uses of the CPU will mean, again, not that the 810 sucks, but simply that it will not outperform year old flagships with the 805 or 801 or more recent phones with the 808, which are are all perfectly good phones with great performance.

I'd say, if you're only reason for getting the 6P is for the "upgrade" to the 810 chipset, then wait a couple months for a phone with the 820, which should be a very good chipset without design flaws and limitations. But there are lots of other great things about the 6P and it sounds like (at least for my preferences) that Huawei and Google made the right choice which is to throttle the 810 sufficiently to keep the phone no warmer to the touch than other phones (even a little cooler) and let the preformance be what it is (which is as good as just about any phone, but not the big step forward some might want).