Google blocked Pixel 8 reviewers and owners from benchmarking the Tensor G3 chip - eviltoast
Google blocked Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro reviewers from using popular benchmarks to test the Tensor G3 chip, new owners too
www.notebookcheck.net
Google has taken the extraordinary step to block reviewers from being able to download popular chip testing benchmarks directly through its Play Store, surprising reviewers of its latest Pixel 8 series smartphones. Incredibly, the company has extended this block to include all new customers of its Pixel 8 phones following the launch, in attempt to suppress the widespread distribution of results.
  • Display Name@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The author writes about people using magic. Wtf.

    others with a little more technical knowledge have been able to by-pass this limitation using a method known as side-loading

    Or:

    Qualcomm actually opted for a couple of slightly older Cortex-A710 cores for 32-bit backwards compatibilit

    Why would you ensure backwards compatibility to 32?? This sounds more like it’s cheaper