Google TV Streamer cannot compete with Apple TV 4K
The new Google TV Streamer reportedly has the same chipset as the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max, making it capable enough to be a streaming device, but it simply cannot compete with the Apple TV 4K which leaves the Google TV Streamer in the dust.
Carrie Marshall for techradar:
The chipset has been revealed to Android Authority, who reports that the chipset inside the new Google device is the MediaTek MT8696. That’s quite old in chip terms: Amazon used it in the 2021 version of its Fire TV Stick 4K Max, although Google’s streamer has twice the RAM of that device…
[T]he Apple TV 4K is a much more powerful device: it has the A15 Bionic chip, the same chip that powered the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the iPhone 14. It’s a six-core CPU with two high performance and two energy efficient cores, with the former clocked at up to 3.23GHz; it also has a dedicated 16-core Neural Engine and a five-core GPU. By comparison the MediaTek chip is a quad-core clocked at up to 2.0GHz and the GPU is believed to be Imagine Technologies’ four-core PowerVR GE9215.
When tvOS 18 launches next month (or in October; tvOS updates sometimes lag behind iOS), it’ll bring machine learning-powered dialog enhancement for movies and vocal clarity enhancement for music; live captions and Continuity Camera enhancements for FaceTime calls; an enhanced Apple Fitness+ experience; and Spatial Audio streaming over AirPlay. Both the Google TV Streamer and the Apple TV 4K are in disguise: the former’s really a streaming stick, and the latter’s a smartphone.
And that’s just the current model.
A newer, even more powerful Apple TV has been rumored for a few years now…
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MacDailyNews Take: Nothing on the market can compete with the Apple TV 4K which costs just $29.01 more than Alphabet’s overpriced and underpowered Google TV Streamer.
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