The main advantage of using custom silicon is that you can decide the naming and so you deceive users that the minor 0.1 update is a full generation advance
Kinda like I saw someone saying "apple skipped A17 for the iPhone 16 and gave the faster A18" - they're in charge of the naming and they can easily decide that A18 = A17
This is not true. A17 pro is an existing chip that is slower than the A18. It wouldn't make sense to call A18 A17 instead
Is that noteworthy though? As in, it's a 3D check, and most mobile games have graphics that an old TI 92 could render.
In the real world with real people, what matters is efficiency. Top performance that you can only achieve in benchmarks is not any indicative of efficiency.
Shouldn't we compare this to SD Gen 3 tho? Why are we comparing with SD Gen 1 from 2023?
Or is the merit here more focused on power consumption? That Tensor G4 has one of the lowest power consumption?
8 gen 1 was a 2022 chipset. The reason it's not being compared to 8 gen 3 is because its not in the same league as the latest 8 gen Snapdragon.
We're comparing it to gen 1 to emphasize how far it is from being competitive.
Not really new; this has been the case with all the Tensor chips. I kind of assumed Google was going to step up their game at some point, but I don't think Samsung can produce chips on par with TSMC. Google is switching to TSMC for next year's Tensor 5, so maybe we'll see a big jump then.
That said, I don't think it's a deal-breaker. I'm running a Pixel 7 and it's "fine". The Pixel 6 had bad throttling/overheating problems, but the 7 and 8 are better. We'll see what the Big Problem is with the 9 series. There's always something.
I don't care about any game stats for my phone but it is annoying that my P9P XL lags when it's connected to AA and I want to grab it fast, double click the power button to open the camera and snap a quick picture.
I've experienced the same lag with previous Pixels. Assumed it was a RAM issue and maybe it is, but it's annoying nonetheless.
I wish Google would just switch back to Qualcomm but keep Titan security chip. Best of both worlds now that Qualcomm has decent NPU onboard.
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