Comment by hocuspocus

2 years ago

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.