What's the fastest phone? What's the best phone for games? What's the best phone for web browsing? Smartphone processor, graphics, web performance comparison 2015 UK

If you're after the fastest phone or the best phone for games or web browsing the answers you need are in our benchmark results

Which smartphone to buy is a highly personal choice: If you're after the fastest phone or the best phone for games or web browsing the answers you need are in our benchmark results. Here we break down the processor-, graphics- and web performance results of each smartphone to find out what's the fastest smartphone 2015 UK. See also: Best smartphones of 2015.

We all have our own opinions on which is the best smartphone, as is evident from the comments on our best smartphones article.

While opinions and reviews are subjective, the one thing you should be able to count on is that the benchmarking numbers do not lie. Except they do. Benchmark boosters are not a conspiracy theory by advocates of rival smartphones and platforms; they are real. There's little we can do about that, except point out that even benchmarks should be taken with a pinch of salt.

In this article we hope to show you which is the fastest smartphone 2015 by listing the numbers we've recorded in our own tests using Geekbench, SunSpider and GFXBench. You can also click on each smartphone's name to be taken to our full (subjective) review of that product, or keep an eye on our chart of the best smartphones on the market. We'll update this page with every new smartphone that we review, so keep on coming back to keep in touch with the latest in smartphone performance.

Note that until recently Windows Phone did not support two of the three benchmarking apps we use, Geekbench and GFXBench. GFXBench support has recently been added so we will be using it to test phones from the Microsoft Lumia 640 onward, and you'll find SunSpider scores for Windows Phone on the second page.

What's the fastest smartphone 2015 UK: Processor performance

We use Geekbench 3 to chart the single- and multi-core performance of each smartphone we review, but for some of our older smartphone reviews only a Geekbench 2 score is available. In Geekbench a higher score is better.