Moto G 3rd Gen review (2015) - the new best budget smartphone?

Performance
Inside the new Moto G is a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset. This chipset regularly appears in budget smartphones, but here it’s running at 1.4GHz rather than the usual 1.2GHz. This gives the phone a significant speed boost compared to the competition, and both the 1GB and 2GB of RAM models of the Moto G proved significantly faster in our benchmarks compared to the competition.

Both models scored around 530 in Geekbench 3's single core test and 1,600 in the multicore test, whereas the 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410-powered 2nd Gen Moto E, for example, only managed 470 and 1,397 respectively. Both models were equally fast at web browsing, too, and the 1GB model's impressive score of 781 in Futuremark’s Peacekeeper web browsing test is one of the faster scores I've seen from this chipset. Web pages loaded quickly and there were only a few signs of visible stutter on multimedia-heavy sites

However, the real difference between the 1GB and 2GB Moto G is its ability to multitask, as apps and games loaded much faster on the 2GB version than the 1GB version. There's often only a second between them, but the extra RAM does make a surprising difference. However, I'm not sure it's worth paying an extra £50 for, as there are plenty of other handsets around £200 which now come with the more capable octa-core Snapdragon 615 chipset, such as the EE Harrier, Sony Xperia M4 Aqua and Vodafone Smart Ultra 6. This makes the £209 2GB model feel a tad slow for its price.