OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition review

Warp Charge 30

The new Warp Charge 30 adapter debuts in the McLaren Edition phone and is a 50% increase in power over the 20W Dash Charge adapter. Following some legal roadblocks with two companies that also use the name Dash, OnePlus is now calling its VOOC-based charger Warp 30.

With the theme of speed, OnePlus claims that the phone can charge a full day's worth of battery in just 20 minutes. We tested this and were able to get the phone to charge to 25% in the first 10 minutes, and then we reached 65% in a half-hour. The phone topped all the way up to 100 in an hour and a couple of minutes.

By contrast, the OnePlus 6T reaches to 55% in a half-hour, 10% below what the McLaren Edition can do. Despite having updated charging technology, battery life is identical to the 6T's 90h overall rating with about 29h of talk tie, 12h of browsing, and 15:40h of video playback.

Chinese companies seem to be the only ones pushing forward with fast-charging standards: OPPO with its 50W VOOC on the RX17 Pro and Huawei with its 40W Super Charge on the Mate 20 Pro. Other brands rely on either Qualcomm's Quick Charge or USB-C Power Delivery. We do expect to see Warp Charge make it to the Next OnePlus device.

Check out our comparison of Warp Charge against other fast-charging standards.

Snapdragon 845 with 10GB of RAM

The McLaren OnePlus 6T is officially among the smartphones with the most RAM in the world. At a whopping 10GB, this phone is no joke when it comes to performance. Even with the 6GB or 8GB model 6T, the Snapdragon 845 is still no slouch thanks in part to OnePlus' excellent job of optimizing the firmware as well.

We don't predict a significant difference with the added 2GB of RAM. Naturally, we ran the usual benchmarks tests to see. Unfortunately, there were no changes in the scores so whatever benefit the extra 2GB of RAM might have, it's not easily detectable or measurable.

GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone XS Max
  11432
• Apple iPhone X
  10215
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
  9712
• Samsung Galaxy Note9
  9026
• OnePlus 6
  9011
• OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition
  9005
• Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  9003
• OnePlus 6T
  8977
• Google Pixel 3
  8146
• Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition
  8032
• Oppo Find X
  8018
• Google Pixel 2
  6437
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  5944

GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone XS Max
  4777
• Apple iPhone X
  4256
• Samsung Galaxy Note9
  3642
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
  3291
• OnePlus 6
  2450
• Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  2438
• OnePlus 6T
  2431
• Google Pixel 3
  2377
• OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition
  2376
• Oppo Find X
  2322
• Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition
  2315
• Google Pixel 2
  1912
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  1835

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone XS Max
  99
• Apple iPhone X
  65
• OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition
  61
• OnePlus 6T
  60
• Oppo Find X
  60
• Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition
  60
• Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  60
• OnePlus 6
  58
• Google Pixel 3
  57
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
  53
• Samsung Galaxy Note9
  45
• Google Pixel 2
  41
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  23

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone XS Max
  60
• OnePlus 6
  55
• Google Pixel 3
  55
• OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition
  54
• OnePlus 6T
  53
• Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition
  53
• Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  53
• Oppo Find X
  50
• Apple iPhone X
  49
• Google Pixel 2
  43
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
  27
• Samsung Galaxy Note9
  25
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  19

AnTuTu 7

Higher is better

• Apple iPhone XS Max
  353210
• OnePlus 6T
  293994
• OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition
  292716
• Oppo Find X
  291218
• Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition
  286938
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
  273913
• Xiaomi Pocophone F1
  265314
• OnePlus 6
  264200
• Samsung Galaxy Note9
  248823
• Google Pixel 3
  233699
• Apple iPhone X
  233100
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  154861