> PinePhone is so much slower than Librem 5

They're the same specs. Pinephone Pro has more cores, ram, and storage.

> Their specs only seem similar on paper, and only if you don't dig into the details.

What do you mean?

They're very much not. I have both of them on my desk right now. All the things that make the PinePhone so painfully slow (GPU performance, RAM bandwidth, eMMC speed, small caches) are significantly higher spec'd on the Librem 5. It also takes much longer to thermal throttle. Performance isn't defined by CPU cores and RAM size alone.

▲

megous 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Original Pinephone is good enough for smartphone apps. It can run a typical smartphone UI smoothly on a single core fully throttled to 648 MHz with a lot of room to spare, probably much better and more responsively than your typical similar class bloated Android phone. Also have it sitting on my table, doing just that. :D

https://xff.cz/dl/tmp/photo-20260806-013112002.mkv (I guess I try hard enough, perfectly servicable with a single core at 648 MHz, barely scratching it at 10-20% CPU time used)

It would be a bit ridiculous if it was not, given what UIs/games people run on 50MHz 486 if like 40-80x faster phone could not move some pixels around smoothly at 60fps.

	▲	seba_dos1 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, even the Neo Freerunner worked smoothly if you tried hard enough :)