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  • Duncan Macdonald - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    Interesting - however there is some critical missing data - what is the power consumption in its different modes ? Phones have a very limited total energy and a limited power consumption (due to heat) - how much would the MariSilicon X impact those limits ?

    There is also the inevitable question of how much a phone's price would be inflated to include this chip.
  • dxu - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    MariSilicon X would consume 797mW when performing noise reduction on 4K video at 40fps.

    Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_wWZ8kYUTSy350itGQuStA (In Chinese, but has much more detail
  • brucethemoose - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    Does anyone from OPPO read the comment section?

    This is a great idea for a sponsored post. TBH it's my favorite from Anandtech so far, and it actually increases my interest in buying an OPPO phone.

    While performance specs are nice, but ya'll should post more technical details, like the layout of the various silicon blocks, memory specs, die sizes, fab process and so on. Those nitty gritty details are big draw here at Anandtech, even if they aren't particularly relevant to what us end users do with a phone.
  • brucethemoose - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    Also, Anandtech *still* needs an edit button, even if it only has a 3 minute timer.
  • Duwelon - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    Edit burtons are so 1999, long live the unedible web!
  • Slash3 - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    Please do not eat the web.
  • Fulljack - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    now anandtech needs upvote button
  • zodiacfml - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    This is a better post vs from other sites. Amazing if this does video better than the iphone. the iphone pretty much up there in terms of processing with crazy wide dynamic range that the look of the video is much like HDR look of photographers around 10 years ago.
    I also did not know smartphone computational photography works on compressed data until now
  • Byte - Sunday, December 19, 2021 - link

    seriously, the iphone 13 pro vids look twice as vibrant as real life when im shooting them, and looks like twice the detail of what i can see. we are past futuramas real life HD.
  • linuxgeex - Wednesday, December 22, 2021 - link

    It's a shame though that with all that dynamic range available, iPhone still tends to clip highlights horrendously.
  • Silver5urfer - Wednesday, December 15, 2021 - link

    Everything is only camera right ? Garbage AI and ISP technology damn every single SoC and Phone only Camera. What is this constant nonsense. I would like to see SD Express NVMe slot or UFS expandable storage or a damn good underscreen camera with 3.5mm jack powered by a DAC or maybe a better battery with higher density that lasts more than 3 years.

    BS camera stuff. Oppo can keep this junk. Their software killed OnePlus Oxygen OS with bloatware. Their master BBK did it but BBK loves Oppo more than OP because for the former it's for masses. OnePlus is for tinkerers.
  • blanarahul - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    Camera is the main draw of high end smartphones for most people.
  • amnesia0287 - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    I don’t quite get why they would go to such an extreme bit depth. As it stands now, even real 10bit displays are still uncommon and 12bit displays are almost non existent.

    Most SLR/Mirrorless cameras are at best 14bit, and high end cinema cameras are 16-bit which is already an obscene range of color. (Specifically 48bit footage (16+16+16) has 281,474,976,710,656 colors which means 60bit images/video would have 1,152,921,504,606,850,000 colors).

    281 trillion is already massive overkill, but pushing that all the way past quadrillion to MORE than a quintillion just doesn’t make sense to me. I can’t think of a single valid use case. It of course should be able to use lower bit depths, but then it seems like it would be wasting massive amounts of registers for no reason.
  • Lindegren - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    Grading my dear, you can push the colors a lot, but you would need the headroom allowed by a higher colordepth
  • Sivar - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    I am interested.
    Also, this is far less annoying than the usual Anandtech banner ads.
  • Duncan Macdonald - Thursday, December 16, 2021 - link

    One possible use case - getting good color in a scene with a very bright light source (eg the sun) in a portion of the picture.

    (However even in this case, the dispersion in the lenses and internal reflections would reduce the RAW image range to 16-bit or less even in a high end SLR let alone a phone camera with a BoM under $100.)
  • DeathArrow - Friday, December 17, 2021 - link

    What's up with Anandtech? It's the last outlet to review tech, if they ever review a particular device. People who wrote interesting articles left without being replaced.

    And now it's rid with sponsored posts.

    I had the habit to check Anandtech daily, hoping that I might came around something interesting. Now I think it is a loss of time.

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