Google teamed up with Samsung once again to build the Tensor G3, the chipset that powers the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. It comes out of Samsung’s 4nm foundries and features a 9-core CPU (1x Cortex-X3 + 4x A715 + 4x A510) and an ARM Mali-G715 GPU.
Google teamed up with Samsung once again to build the Tensor G3, the chipset that powers the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. It comes out of Samsung’s 4nm foundries and features a 9-core CPU (1x Cortex-X3 + 4x A715 + 4x A510) and an ARM Mali-G715 GPU.
Please just use snapdragon and I’ll buy a pixel
They won’t. They used to do that prior to the 6. They are able to offer longer support and they claim more features (AI and camera mostly I think) this way.
I thought it was marketing BS at first, but the responsiveness of AI related tasks on my Pixel 7 is much better than any phone I’ve ever used. Voice-to-text is almost never wrong, and processes just as fast as you speak. The photo editing, OCR, Lens search, and all the other random features that are time and time again extremely useful are snappy as hell.
I don’t play games on my phone outside of BTD6 and random ones when I’m bored on an airplane, but they’ve all ran fine without hitching. At the top end the phone is behind, but it’s just not my use case to run games at 200 FPS on mobile.
Pixels have always been a software first phone with features that seem niche but actually turn out to be extremely useful. This is the first phone I’ve had that I can use to improve my interactions with the real world in a meaningful way, and it’s very clear that is the direction the Pixel is heading towards.
I’ve only used the live translate feature once, but when I did it felt magical. I was able to communicate with someone who only spoke Mandarin, in English, almost as fast as if we both spoke a common language. It’s probably the closest thing we have to a universal translator device and it was awesome.
With that said I’m one person, and I completely understand some people need a powerful phone, but I think for most the processor is more than enough, and they could benefit from the extra features.
Why, what’s wrong with their chip - genuine question? Something can only get better through iterative design and refinement.
I don’t care about gaming performance on a phone, but battery life in Pixel 7 have been worse than in competitors like Galaxy S23.
I would never believe that in my entire life. Samsung batteries are the worst, they die quickly and have short lifespans, not to mention they expand and blow up of you don’t use your device.
Battery life <> life span
Life is how many hours on a charge, while life span is how many charges.
According to GSMarena the battery life of the Pixel 7a is 76h, The Samsung S23 is 101h. S23 Ultra is 126h.
76 hour for the Pixel 7a is a pretty poor result.
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s23-12082.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_7a-12170.php
Exynos Samsung batteries. Tensor is based on Exynos, and S23 has only Qualcomm variant. That’s why Pixel 7 drains battery faster than S23.
That and a poor thermal design.
This Tensor G3 chip doesn’t even match the 2 years older Snapdragon 8 gen 1 from 2021.
There are cheaper phones with way better SOC like the new Dimensity 9200+ Which is both faster and more efficient.
The Pixel Phone is a cool phone in some ways, but the SOC absolutely isn’t on par with what other companies have. At best it would be ranked fourth after Apple, Qualcomm and Mediatek who are all way ahead.
Better at what though. I think it’s all relative. I’ve had no set backs I can ever think of using my Pixels. Image processing I guess could be quicker, but is that really a deal breaker?
Either faster or more power efficient. Compared to the Pixel 8 Pro / Tensor G3, there are options that are better at both.