10mo ago

Google Tensor G4 fails to outscore Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and barely beats Tensor G3 in 3DMark Wild Life Extreme

Just a moment...

10mo ago

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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?
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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