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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Just out of curiosity: are you a representative for nvidia? These guys seem to roam around in tech forums predicting doom and gloom for anyone who don't buy their latest $1000+ cards (and a pc to run them of course)
This incredibly cheap Amazon device is running a beast of a mobile chip called Snapdragon, not the latest iteration but the previous one. To put it in perspective: it's the same hardware in my smartphone, which runs 1080p streams smoothly. My previous smartphone with quite less powerful hardware also ran it just fine.
As for games, nobody is expecting to run Crysis or PS4 games
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Ya know, normally I would think that question silly, but apparently companies really do take sneaky PR to community forums. It's bizarre. Also no, lol. Incidentally I use an AMD gpu at the moment.
my point was that Fire TV is not overbuilt, and that its relatively more powerful hardware is taken advantage of. It doesn't take much to run 1080p. The hardware is for the OS/apps. For the price, I wouldn't expect more, no matter what company they went with for the tech.