Excellent article from 9to5google regarding the Tensor G3 in comparison to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 which looks like its doing á lot of AI things that Tensor does (and doesn't do), on-device.
Ever since I saw the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 showcase and hands on with a Qualcomm reference device, I've been extremely impressed with what Qualcomm are bringing to the table with AI, totally blowing the Tensor G3 out of the water, raising the question; what's the point of Tensor? When there is a faster, more efficient chip, with better reception, which also has extremely strong AI capabilties - what benefit does the Tensor bring? Snapdragon chips are substantially faster and more efficient than Tensor chips, due to better design as well as being manufactured by TSMC rather than Samsung.
Having the Pixel 8 Pro for a couple of weeks now, Tensor G3 is a couple of generations behind Snapdragon in performance and you can really feel it. I also still have my Galaxy S23U and zipping around the phones, going in and out of apps, firing up and exiting out of apps, the Galaxy is just straight up faster. It also has better battery life, with my usage getting an additional 2-3 hours of screen time, which makes a big difference in my usage. I thought the AI features looked pretty cool with the Pixel 8 Pro, though a lot of which aren't even available yet, and I'm not sure will even release in certian regions, and will likely rollout to other phones (eg, I'm sure Magic Editor will become available to anyone with Google Photos and Google One subscription down the track).
Now we have the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which has an extremely impressive suite of AI tech that has been demonstrated, and a lot of it is on-device, rather than pushing the load into the cloud like Google does for a number of it's AI functions. Things like object eraser in video, night vision in video, generative fill if you want to make your image larger, it's doing photo unblur and a bunch of other features. Google who have been banging on about AI and machine learning and large language models for what feels like forever, have had the competition catch up and seemingly surpass what they're able to do.
So I'm just left wondering where are the actual benefits of Tensor are? 7 years of updates is nice, though I doubt the phone will last that long and it's already a processor that is slow/inefficient today, I can't imagine how it'll be in 5+ years from now. I get that it's cheaper for Google to go with Tensor than Snapdragon, but that doesn't benefit me as the end user. I just wish Google ditched Tensor and went with Snapdragon chips. The Pixel phones could be orders of magnitude better imo.
Ever since I saw the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 showcase and hands on with a Qualcomm reference device, I've been extremely impressed with what Qualcomm are bringing to the table with AI, totally blowing the Tensor G3 out of the water, raising the question; what's the point of Tensor? When there is a faster, more efficient chip, with better reception, which also has extremely strong AI capabilties - what benefit does the Tensor bring? Snapdragon chips are substantially faster and more efficient than Tensor chips, due to better design as well as being manufactured by TSMC rather than Samsung.
Having the Pixel 8 Pro for a couple of weeks now, Tensor G3 is a couple of generations behind Snapdragon in performance and you can really feel it. I also still have my Galaxy S23U and zipping around the phones, going in and out of apps, firing up and exiting out of apps, the Galaxy is just straight up faster. It also has better battery life, with my usage getting an additional 2-3 hours of screen time, which makes a big difference in my usage. I thought the AI features looked pretty cool with the Pixel 8 Pro, though a lot of which aren't even available yet, and I'm not sure will even release in certian regions, and will likely rollout to other phones (eg, I'm sure Magic Editor will become available to anyone with Google Photos and Google One subscription down the track).
Now we have the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which has an extremely impressive suite of AI tech that has been demonstrated, and a lot of it is on-device, rather than pushing the load into the cloud like Google does for a number of it's AI functions. Things like object eraser in video, night vision in video, generative fill if you want to make your image larger, it's doing photo unblur and a bunch of other features. Google who have been banging on about AI and machine learning and large language models for what feels like forever, have had the competition catch up and seemingly surpass what they're able to do.
So I'm just left wondering where are the actual benefits of Tensor are? 7 years of updates is nice, though I doubt the phone will last that long and it's already a processor that is slow/inefficient today, I can't imagine how it'll be in 5+ years from now. I get that it's cheaper for Google to go with Tensor than Snapdragon, but that doesn't benefit me as the end user. I just wish Google ditched Tensor and went with Snapdragon chips. The Pixel phones could be orders of magnitude better imo.
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better than P7P and even my Fold has been running flawlessly…
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