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manfredo on May 7, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pixel 3a

What does the visual core do? Also it looks like the pixel 3a's GPU is downgraded to Adreno 615 from Adreno 630 on pixel 3.

pound on May 7, 2019 [–]

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/google/pixel_visual_core It would be interesting to compare photo/video performance between 3 and 3a (slower GPU, slower CPU, no dedicated Visual Core). Saying 'it has the same camera' in this case essentially means only the same lens and software.

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