Gary Explains
The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are now out which means it is benchmarking time. How does the new 9-core Google Tensor G3 compare to the previous generations of Tensor SoC, and to other processors like the Apple A17 Pro, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and the Dimensity 9200? Let’s find out!
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It's not about speed performance battery or heat….. Ok Google lol 😂😂😂
So now they're finally going to odd numbers
Well to point to that. Under snapdragon we got unlimited photo storage. With tensor that's gone. So I keep my 4a 😂.
What about Mediatek 9200+ ?
Missed the battery life test…
Even if Google's tensor g3 is superior to their first 2 tensor chips, the tensor 3 will still be easy prey to the far superior 8 gen 3, dimensity 9300 and Apple's A17 bionic which is the only 3nm process on the market.
Snapdragon 7+ gen 2 laughing over it's value for money advantage
The most important tests are often never done which is signal tests and uptime tests. The Exynos modems for the Pixel 6 and 7 had major network issues. Had a Pixel 6 dozens of times a day no signal at all up to 20 minutes at a time on both ATT and T-Mobile even in populated cities around DFW. Same sim cards in a $50 UMX phone didn't have those issues. Got it RMA'ed same exact issue with a different Pixel 6 device inspected. Others had 3+ RMA's and just ended up giving up selling the phone for a loss or traded it in which is what I had to do too. Google only offers to keep doing RMA's.
Impressive to see that Apple is so much ahead of its competition in terms of CPU performance. Although they have improved their GPU this time, they still need some catching up to do if they wish to target AAA gaming in mobile.
The Cortex-A715 core, like all of ARM's intermediate cores, just isn't that efficient. ARM needs a far more efficient small core to replace all of its current small and intermediate cores – Apple's efficiency cores are embarrassingly superior (in terms of outright efficiency and in terms of the trade-off between efficiency and performance) to what ARM is offering.
Google could have chosen lower clocked X3s, instead of the A715s, which would have provided better support for ML models and, at those lower clocks, could have avoided any heat or battery drain issues. But, Google always tries to save those pennies.
I'll wait for the Pixel 9 or 10. By then we should have decent 3nm silicon.
Oh so MP is the amount of graphics processors, kinda like AMD using CUs (compute units) for their GPUs?
Tensor and Qualcomm need to work on power efficiency
Its sad that google can slap a thermometer in pixel 8 pro, which nobody wanted or asked for, but they can not acomodate a SD card slot. These companies stripping away popular features like headphone jack or sd card slot, makes me look toward sony xperia 1 v. If sony promised 5years of software n security, i would buy it at any price at all.
Please compare google pixel 8 pro, vs sony experia 1 v, vs samsung s23 ulta, in terms of user experience, UI, in hand feel, features, battery drain time, thermal management, and value for money. I ll buy one of these 3.
Waiting for response. Thanx
I've came from a samsung qualcomm 8+ gen 1 device and assumed the pixel would perform at least as good. The samsung was essentially flawless in terms of performance but ive been pretty dissappointed with the tensor. Its fine i guess but little stutters throughout the OS. Things like twitter scrolling just have little stutters where the samsung would be butter smooth. Im stuck with it now but have a bit of buyers remorse. Maybe a few software updates will straighten it out.
I thought the whole point of the Tensor chip was to cut off the middle man (Qualcomm) and pass the saving on to the consumer. With Pixels costing as much as IPhones, why would I opt for inferior hardware for the same cost price?
It's time that artificial benchmarks start doing artificial intelligence core benchmarking.
Lets be honest who even has the time to play high demanding games on their phones that often??
Where is the comparisons of the NPU or tensor sections. Google is touting that part of the chip but yet you show no comparisons. Moreover, even the A17s most impressive leap was with its neural engine being 2x as fast. This breakdown feels incomplete
tensor is a joke a.i is all about processing power they assume their customers are morons if samsung or apple choose to go a.i they will blow google out of the water instantly me i loathe a.i so i hope they don't
Wildlife on iPhone is lower bcuz it seems like it gets a 60fps cap on the app for some reason, where galaxy is able to go past and push much higher frames resulting in higher scores, that’s why it turns around on the extreme version. I will say I wish Apple would upgrade storage speed and ram speed though, especially with them pushing for AAA console games, it would have been nice to have 5x ram instead of 5, and faster SSD. Maybe with iPhone 16 they will jump straight to ddr6 ram though, at that point even 5x might feel like a let down but if they keep ddr5 yet again it would sting