Comment by Rinzler89
2 years ago
>Pixel 6 Pro I got after that, I was distraught to learn that Pixels didn't support video-out at all
Since Google switched from Qualcomm to Samsung SoCs starting from the Pixel 6, they lost a lot of performance and cool features compared to previous Qualcom driven Pixels.
As much as I hate Qualcomm for being an evil foss hating patent troll, their SoCs were a cut above the competition on all fronts, and phones with their SoCs performed and aged better. Hence why phones with their SoCs were more sought after than the same models with Samsung SoCs.
Shame Google had to ditch them. I heard starting from pixel 10 they'll roll out their own SoCs based on their own design fabbed at TSMC.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the SoC.
Qualcomm powered Nexus and Pixels never had a video output.
And the flagship Exynos line always supported the feature.
>That has absolutely nothing to do with the SoC.
It does, without it you don't get video output. You need the soc to have DisplayPort lanes and a phy to the USB-C port.
>Qualcomm powered Nexus and Pixels never had a video output.
No phones in that generation had video output.
>And the flagship Exynos line always supported the feature.
Google's Tensor is not a flagship Exynos, but more of a budget cut down "Walmart" version of it, made specifically only for Google.
> It does, without it you don't get video output. You need the soc to have DisplayPort lanes and a phy to the USB-C port.
Of course, you need hardware support. Which has been present since 2017. Yet Google never bothered enabling the feature, so this has nothing to do with the SoC, it's just a choice.
> No phones in that generation had video output.
What? There are literally dozens of counterexamples.
The Essential Phone 1 had video output, not the Pixel 2. Same SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.
> Google's Tensor is not a flagship Exynos, but more of a budget cut down "Walmart" version of it, made specifically only for Google.
Cheap or not, Tensor Gx are still direct variations of the Exynos 2x00 line, which have video output.