Where the pros and cons of a 7gen converge(NEW BUT CUT DOWN) is in efficiency/normal people smartphone usage.

The benefits of having a new soc are availability of new process node, and newer standards like bl 5.3 instead of 5.2 (as an eg). The usecase most suited to a new but cut down SoC is the efficiency usecase. My point was leave the 7gen for efficiency as a new cut down processor will often be artificially handicapped to keep prices low and not compete with 8gen. When did i say gaming shouldnt be catered to? It’s an interesting situation and I’m left to wonder where things evolve in the next-gen SoCĪnandtech Tensor review/Exynos AV1 comments The very weird thing here is that all it does is AV1 – every other encoding and decoding of other formats is left over to the Samsung MFC. The Google IP block, which the company calls “BigOcean”, is a dedicated AV1 decoder, and this does actually expose AV1 decoding ability to the Android framework.

I have no good explanation here as to why – maybe the IP isn’t working correctly with AV1.

However on the Galaxy S21 series this functionality was never implemented on the Android framework level.

Now this is a bit weird, as Samsung does advertise the Exynos 2100 as having AV1 decode abilities, and that functionality does seem to be there in the kernel drivers. On the media encoder side, the Tensor SoC uses both Samsung’s own Multi-Function Codec IP block (which is identical to what’s used on the Exynos series) as well as what appears to be a Google IP block that is dedicated to AV1 decoding. Anandtech references it in the Google Tensor review while discussing Tensor and Exynos platform similarities.

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