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

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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

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- 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
  
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Is that noteworthy though? As in, it's a 3D check, and most mobile games have graphics that an old TI 92 could render.

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- 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.
  
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  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?
  
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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.

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