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[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Good to know, but nobody should buy a Pixel expecting it to be a high performance gaming phone. You buy it for all the smart Google features and camera.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I buy Pixel just for GrapheneOS lol

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My 7 Pro can emulate Wii games flawlessly. Possibly switch, but I've not tried.

It's a very powerful phone.

[–] moonburster@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I haven't experienced my 7 pro underperforming to the s22 either

[–] narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Who are you kidding?

[–] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No one buys a Pixel to game lol. People buy it because it's smarter at normal phone stuff. Unless you're like me. I don't really care about that stuff and I want privacy, so I bought one for GrapheneOS.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How tf did it score worse than the 7 Pro

[–] renohren@partizle.com 3 points 11 months ago

Because it's more optimised towards AI, you start off with an exynos chip which is ok for gaming and ok-ish as far as neural networks are concerned. The more you optimise it for AI tasks, the less easy it is to make it as available as it was before optimisation for rendering. So a G3 isn't meant to be architecturaly better at gaming than a G2, the goal is to be way better at AI, and unless there is a leap in exynos architecture, that should increase with tha G4... Until google get it's independant chip designs around ARM achitecture going. Until then they have to work within the limits of exynos limitations.

that's a reason to buy one

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

yea this is the only reason why i have been staying away from pixels. i don't play much games on my phone but the soc is soo mid.

[–] JK1348@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I was enjoying the Xiaomi but it's essentially useless in the US, they're low key black balling those brand of phones here in SoCal at least.

I loved everything about it I still have it as my "second phone" I keep on WiFi, if it worked here I would have enjoyed it.

I also went to Central America and took it with me out there to use, it was perfect.

[–] Helmic@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

My main reason for buying a 6 refurbished was GrapheneOS. Beyond that, it's a phone without an SD card slot or an easily replacee battery. When this phone gets an issue I can't fix, I'll probably re-evaluate what to get - hopefully still a GrapheneOS phone but more repaiarable and expandable.

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

β€œFuck you I won’t do what you told me”

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

I don't know if the phone will last 7 years of updates, if the SoC is already lagging behind a 2 year old snapdragon chip.

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago
[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I wasn't gunna...

[–] Alami@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn it's only slightly better than last year's samsung flagship powerhouse. Probably it means candy crush will be lagging eh

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually below. It's only slightly above when the Samsung is throttling via the Game Optimizer Service.

[–] Alami@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

So defo no candy crush