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  • Fair about the years, let’s call them 2019 models instead.

    I do doubt rk3588’s performance because my phone has a76 + a55 and it has nowhere near desktop performance like the person above claimed. And for people with more recent phones it would be a downgrade.

    The soc being merely 3 years old despite having older components doesn’t mean much; you could make the same arguement about the phone being brand new regardless of what cpu it has but that doesn’t change the fact that it doesn’t perform like a 2025 device. This is like amd repackaging zen 2 and zen 3 processors as if they were new by declaring the most significant digit ‘year’ and 3rd most significant digit ‘generation’.

    And I really doubt rockchip (or any other manufacturer) chose a76 because it was better than its successors in some way. As I see it rk3588 is using these cores because they’re the best available on the 8nm process node that rockchip could afford. Which I suppose isn’t unreasonable for a low cost chip in 2022, but this is a 20252026 smartphone that’s reducing costs by using a 2022 chip that itself reduced its costs by using 2019 tech.