When the Moto G was introduced it held the dubious distinction of becoming unofficially Google's lowest price phone since Motorola is owned by Google. Seeing as the Nexus 5 is viewed upon as having flagship specs with its Snapdragon 800 chipset AndroidAuthority thought it would be interesting to see just how the speed of Moto and Google's new low priced smartphone compared to their flagship Nexus. With its Snapdragon 400 chipset and 1GB of RAM, the Moto G should theoretically come in behind the Nexus 5 but Google has been very vocal that the Android platform is designed to run well even on mid-range phones like the Moto G. We're pretty surprised then to find that not only did the Moto G run well in the comparison video above, but it really was almost neck and neck on most tasks when put up against the Nexus 5 which cost about 80% more.(which is still a bargain compared to most high end smartphones). The bottom line is that $179/$199 buys you a lot of phone and performance and in fact for those that don't need the cutting edge specs of Full HD screen of the Nexus 5, the Moto G makes a compelling choice.