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Pixel 7a may've used a worse packaging material for the SOC resulting in higher heat and worse performance compared to pixel 7 and pixel 6

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Till today, Pixel 6a was the best. In term of performance and value for money too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a budget phone, so it's understandable that it could be a binned chip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Binning a chip based on its performance in the silicon lottery is VERY different from deliberately shipping a chip with worse thermals, just sayin'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is very different at least in paper, but for the consumer it's more or less the same. Lower price, lower performant chip. We'll have to wait for benchmarks to know if the downgrade is newsworthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah if it isn't a serious performance downgrade and doesn't throttle hard after long periods of thermal load then the downgrade would be justified. Hopefully that's the case.