What makes the Android Phones that needs all this graphical power just to make a few phone calls or some cheap android game on the go? While the more high-end games could be put on the boxed ones instead? I'm pretty sure the much older Snapdragons are festable to get and install to many of them is possible nowadays i'm sure!
So what gives exactly?!
Because in most cases Qualcomm provide drives for their CPU only for 18-20 months, after that they drop support for that CPU model, so many Android Phone don't get more than 2 years of update for lack of drivers.
A TV device will stay in your house more than 2 years so OEM avoids using Qualcomm chips. That's why most TV Box comes with AMLogic chips and Sony uses MediaTek CPU.
Snapdragon isn't a GPU, it's a CPU. It uses the Adreno GPU generally. And I'm not sure why any makers aren't using Snapdragons, but it might be due to cost, and/or not being the most efficient CPU for the job (it's designed as a power sipper, but an Android TV device has all the power and cooling it might need.
razer forge.
otherwise everyone but nvidia is following the reference design/market shift to low end/operator tier cost synergizing and using the 902x or worse.
What?!
Because it would make them $350.