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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by ehsankia on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:16PM (#25040026)
In most benchmarks they are basically within the error margin, but I have indeed seen a few where Pixel 5 does strangely poorly. I am definitely curious to know what's causing that, Pixel 5 has a slightly newer version of the same chipset (765G/Adreno 620 vs 730G/Adreno 618). The two best guesses I have is either the waterproofing really messes up with the thermals, or there's some unlying bug causing bad performance in those specific benchmarks.

That being said, in real-life use, unless you're playing some heavy games, phone devices are generally more memory bound than CPU bound in my experience, so the 2GB extra ram will go a long way.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by maven29 on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:53PM (#25042086)
Waterproofing or not, phones are almost always effectively hermetically sealed from a convection point of view and do not rely on convection in any form for cooling. I do not see how waterproofing would interfere with conducting heat away.
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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by foota on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:24PM (#25042276)
Maybe it forces a different internal layout?
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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by fuzxi on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:35PM (#25042836)
The pixel 4a 5g uses the same cpu as the 5, does not have waterproofing, and has the same benchmark speeds as the 5. I think the layouts are different too, based on the fact that the 4a 5g is larger than the 5.
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