The Pixel 8 series is expected to be unveiled by Google later this year, and the phone’s specs were recently leaked online. The successor of pixels 7 This series of smartphones is expected to feature a next-generation chipset from Google, the Tensor G3. While the company has yet to announce the specs of the processor that will power the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, a recent leak suggested it will feature 9 Arm cores and 10 GPU cores. Meanwhile, a benchmark of a Tensor G3-equipped device recently surfaced online, giving us a glimpse of its performance.
Tipster Revegnus (Twitter: @Tech_Reve) recently posted a screenshot a Geekbench entry for a device titled “Google Factory build on Ripcurrent”. The entry is not current – it has been published on April 11th on the benchmarking website. From the listing, the handset has a single-core score of 1,186 and a multi-core score of 3,809 on the Geekbench 5.5.1 test. The processor’s specs also match a recent leak of the specs of the alleged Tensor G3, which consists of 9 cores in a 1+4+4 layout.
However, the Geekbench listing shows that the Tensor G3 chip may not bring significant performance improvements over the Tensor G2 SoC. Indeed the coming Nothing phone 2 lately dotted 1,253 and 3,833 points on Geekbench. This suggests that Google’s next flagship smartphones will be powered by a chip that is slower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipsets.
In fact, the Tensor G3’s alleged benchmark results suggest that it’s only marginally faster than the recently launched mid-range smartphone, the Poco F5 scores of 1,121 and 3,656 in the single-core and multi-core tests on Geekbench.
However, it is worth noting that Pixel phones with Tensor chipsets have never offered performance compared to flagship Android phones of a similar price range. Instead, these Tensor chips are designed to offer powerful AI capabilities and run many of the machine learning tasks on the device, meaning they work without access to the internet.
According to a recent leak, the Tensor G3 of the Pixel 8 smartphone series will be equipped with nine CPU cores in a 1+4+4 layout. The chipset will feature a 3.00GHz Cortex-X3 core, four 2.45GHz Cortex-A715 cores and four 2.15GHz Cortex-A510 cores. However, given the recently leaked results, it’s currently unclear how much of a performance boost the new chipset will bring over last year’s Tensor G2 SoC powering the Pixel 7 Pixel 7 Pro.
