HTC One M9 Lollipop vs Marshmallow Comparison

Welcome to the first constructive Lollipop vs Marhsmallow comparison!

NOTICE: This is still WIP (Work in Progress) and I will keep updating the thread as soon as I finish an aspect of the comparison. Please do bare with me as I do not have the luxury of time unfortunately, but I am very determined to make that and show the world the true face of the M9 :)

Inspiration:

I have always seen reviews of the HTC One M9 before I am honored to get such an awesome device in my hands, and they were a bit off, and in my opinion, a bit misleading too. Even Anandtech was a bit unfair towards the M9 when it was launched even though they are admitting that the M9 is one of the best implementations of the controversial Snapdragon 810 now. That put off some of the fire and hatred I had in my heart towards the misleading press reviews, but there has always been one thing that made me mad, comparing the major updates, where HTC really done a great job to say the least. From Android 5.0.2 to 5.1 was a revolution, and from Android 5.1 to Android 6.0 is a total revelation! So let's keep it to that and dig in the new sweet ;)

Contents:

->Performance & Synthetic Benchmarks
->Thermal Performance
->Graphics Performance
->Battery Life
->Real-Life experience
->Audio
->Camera (maybe @hamdir can be more useful in this aspect, he is a professional! I am just an amateur :) )
->Recap

You are more than welcome to contribute with your own experience, maybe there is another area I didn't cover here and you did so. We are humans after all ;)

Credits:

@hamdir for the camera overview of each update the M9 has received
@ZeroInfinity our audio specialist, his mod was very useful for my comparison too!
@flar2 for his EX kernel, learnt a lot of things from his wonderful rock-solid kernel! @DeeZZ_NuuZZ for contributing to the Marshmallow overview and first impressions!
@gelo01 for providing Gamebench sessions for Lollipop ROM (I missed that one actually :o )
@v7 for the design (yes it is a bit similar and I looked at your OP to rip off a similar design :D ) @Sneakyghost for his wonderful guide for upgrading firmware @jcase and @beaups for the opportunity to have S-OFF on the M9
and the most important of all, the dumbass ****ing press for inspiring me to that :D :cowboy:
please if I missed someone, please PM me, You know that I never meant to be rude or cruel :angel:

Let the fun begin.....

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Camera comparison Sony and Samsung sensor on Note 5

I have two Note 5 N920G and N9208 model. N920G has Sony sensor whereas N9208 model has Samsung sensor.
Here are the pictures comparison. 1st is N920G and 2nd is N9208. Please compare and comment. Both pics are taken in same environment.

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