Terrible old chipset or good old chipset? Features of device selection

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Friends or complete strangers often ask for advice when choosing a new device.

One of the parameters that worries many,performance becomes, which for some reason is measured in virtual parrots, for example, the Antutu benchmark. People put an equal sign between the benchmark score and the performance of the device in their tasks, in terms of how convenient it will be for them. Conscious simplification, which has become massive, and leads to very curious situations.

For example, one of our readers with the Galaxy A31I considered buying different models to replace my phone, but every time I was stuck with virtual parrots and how great their value is. He asked a direct question: how satisfied are you with the performance of your device today, what are you doing on it? Here is the answer I received: “I watch YouTube, I browse sites in Chrome, Telegram and mail are constantly in my memory. On the day of the hour 4 screens, the charge lasts until the end of the day, and there is little left. I did not notice any problems with the speed of work.

I don’t remember exactly what processor is in the GalaxyA31, something from MediaTek, it was useful to watch a review that I wrote a few years ago. Inside the MediaTek Helio P65 MT6768 chipset (12 nm technology), it was not a performance record holder at the time of release, much less it is today. Considering that the same Antutu has changed the method of scoring, in the current version this device is gaining 150 thousand points.

If we take the middle segment of current models, thentheir performance will be at the level of 500 thousand points, the flagships are guaranteed to pass over a million points. And in this coordinate system, the Galaxy A31 cannot satisfy anyone, it is “slow”, behind the market for many years. In reality, the person was satisfied with the performance of his device, but he was looking for a new phone with a large number of points. Why? Because this is one of the simplest metrics that shows how good a phone is. But this metric is very crafty, because you can use a fast chipset and not install the right cooling, save on it. Virtual parrots will be available, but the device will quickly discharge and warm up. Unfortunately, today there is no one simple and understandable metric that will allow you to choose a smartphone, tablet or computer. It is necessary to take into account the different components of such devices, pay attention to their capabilities.

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Perhaps I should warm the thought thatone day it will occur to me to do video editing (I just can’t think of anything else) and then a powerful processor will come in handy for me. The fact is that for many years I didn’t have complicated video editing, at exhibitions I sometimes distilled videos and converted them to a different resolution, completely different machines coped with this, from mid-budget to the most powerful, only the time spent differed. But it always fit into the time frame that suited me. The limitation was the time of writing the text, in any case it was about a couple of hours, so there was no problem at all. Many people simply do not know what processor is in their computer, forget this information after the purchase, and some never knew this.

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Let's think of those "unfortunates" whouses phones in 2023 that they bought three or four years ago, and there are still people who have had their phones for more than five years. It seems that such devices should shamelessly slow down with each operation, but this is not so. Moreover, people are satisfied with the speed with which they perform familiar tasks. I will say more - over the past years, the tasks themselves have not changed in any way, as can be seen in the description of the owner of the Galaxy A31. It's all the same browser, YouTube, instant messengers and so on. It is clear that games have appeared that require maximum performance from hardware, but playing the same Genshin Impact on a phone is a dubious pleasure. You obviously cut your opportunities, I'm not talking about cloud gaming, there is a completely different picture.

Russian market statistics show thatthe life of the phone is approaching five years, the world is also increasing this parameter. In new models, people do not see anything that would encourage them to change their devices. Progress is now visible only over long periods of time, at least 3-5 years. Of course, it all depends on the choice of device - if you had a budget phone, then by changing it to a flagship in a year, you will feel a big difference. Above, we are talking about comparing devices that are identical in segments, for example, flagships with similar flagships, but separated in time.

The mental trap that falls into those whochooses virtual parrots and the most-most chipset, lies in the fact that they still remain with the old chipset in their hands. After a year or two, it becomes not so productive, judging by the new products. But the same flagships have a margin of safety of several years, there are no applications that can download them. And so we see that many manufacturers, for the sake of savings, are starting to install not the latest chipsets in their devices, although they used to do exactly the opposite. Now, when choosing between Snapdragon 8 Gen.1 and Gen.2, they are leaning towards the first generation, the question of price prevails. And some buyers believe that they were deceived, they were not given the very best processor. At the same time, exactly the same people are trying to find a balanced solution, not to overpay for a flagship! Yes, people combine such opposite ideas about beauty.

In the budget and mid-range segments, we see thatSince 2020, manufacturers are increasingly using “old” chipsets that are already 2-3 years old. Moreover, if you look at the "new" chipsets from suppliers, then often their novelty is only in the new hardware revision, small fixes for shortcomings, but inside they are exactly the same old solutions that continue to live. The life of the components increases in proportion to the life of the devices themselves and even exceeds them.

For me personally, it comes to the forethe performance of the device in virtual parrots, but the balance of what it can do and what a powerful processor is needed for. The choice of the same flagships is not due to overall performance, here I will be satisfied with the usual model for 20-30 thousand rubles, but with chips in ISP processors for processing photos and videos. A certain class of device gives additional options when taking a photo, and I like taking pictures. But just parrots of the processor do not excite me at all.

In a good way, you need to create a relative scaleperformance, which will show how well a particular chipset performs typical tasks in relation to the amount and type of memory. For example, this chipset will suit most users, but this one will expand the possibilities for games. While we simply do not have such a scale, so we measure everything in virtual parrots, which do not give any idea of reality.

The number of those for whom the processor is important, and those for whom it is indifferent, looks approximately equal in our survey.

And I like this distribution of answers, it shows that many people think the same way as I do, do not pay attention to virtual parrots, but evaluate their scenarios for using devices.

Finally, I want to repeat the thought.Sooner or later, the processor in your device will become old, in computers that serve people for up to ten years, this is clearly visible. But at the same time, you do not refuse to use them, often you do not see any brakes (especially if you do not update Windows on a PC to new versions). The same story with other devices, albeit for shorter periods of time.

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