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grapheneos | on: Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
There's no Pixel with a flagship SoC. Signature 27 has over 2x higher GPU performance, ~60% higher single threaded performance and ~80% higher multithreaded performance. It also has higher end cameras too. Pixel 11 Pro XL is cheaper but at the cost of having budget Snapdragon performance. Tensor is acceptable in the 'a' series Pixels and helps provide extremely good updates and security compared to other budget devices since it matches the flagships. A flagship Snapdragon SoC likely costs $200-$300 and combined with the fancy cameras fully explains the price difference.
mr_machine | parent | next
No doubt the hardware is very powerful, but that's not much of a motivator. My Pixel 9 is smooth as butter with Graphene (thank you! <3). I can't imagine what about it could be faster in a meaningful sense.

I want to financially support Moto for supporting Graphene, but the wild cost for unnecessarily-powerful hardware makes that sorta unlikely.

The big differentiator could be desktop mode. I've played with it on my Pixel and with a bit more attention, it could be a total game-changer. To do that, though, I had to enable stuff that Graphene's guidance suggested would diminish security... defeating the purpose of running Graphene to some extent.

I beg you to lean into the desktop thing. I'll give you money if that helps.

hd4 | parent
I'm not sure what a flagship SoC is, I meant flagship Pixel in terms of whatever is the latest device they are pushing as their flagship device, not in relation to the state-of-the-art on the market.

I already have a 9a running GOS and it's good enough for me for the next few years, no plans to upgrade and certainly not for the price Motorola are asking here. You need to understand that typical users don't notice the difference between the hardware in the upper percentiles of performance, "budget Snapdragon" is really just already very good. I know it's a win having Motorola onboard, albeit. Also thanks for your great work!