Google Pixel 10’s Tensor G5 chip may not be as powerful as expected
The Google Pixel 10 series won’t debut until late next year, but a new leak sheds some light on the alleged chipset’s benchmarks. The company is expected to equip its alleged smartphone range with the Tensor G5 SoC, which may only offer minor upgrades in terms of GPU power over the Tensor G4 chip that currently powers the Pixel 9 series. A separate report suggests that Google could use Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR DXT architecture for graphics performance improvements.
Google Tensor G5 chipset benchmarks
The Tensor G5 chipset was spotted listed in the Geekbench browser with different specifications. It is reportedly codenamed “Frankel” and features eight cores: one core core clocked at 3.4 GHz, five mid-cores running at 2.86 GHz, and two other cores with a maximum speed of 2.44 GHz. The SoC has an ARMv8 architecture and can be paired with approximately 11.07 GB of RAM.
The alleged chipset also appears to run Android 15 OS, which has already been released for Pixel smartphones. However, the actual Pixel 10 devices could run Android 16 out-of-the-box as Google has already confirmed the release timeline of its next Android operating system (OS) and it seems to fit in with the rumored launch schedule of the alleged Pixel 10 series.
In the cross-platform benchmark Geekbench 6.3.0 for Android AArch64, the Tensor G5 chipset had 1,323 and 4,004 single- and multi-core scores, respectively. By comparison, its predecessor, the Tensor G4 chip on the Pixel 9 Pro XL (review) scored 1,944 points in the single-core test and 4,667 points in the multi-core tests conducted by Gadgets 360.
New GPU architecture is still lagging behind
A special one report by Android Authority suggests that Google could adopt a new PowerVR architecture developed by Imagination Technologies for the Tensor G5’s GPU. It will likely be a two-core DXT-48-1536 GPU, clocked at 1.1 GHz and featuring 1,536 FP32 FLOPs per clock. The GPU comes with support for scalable ray tracing, Fragment Shading Rate and 2D Dual-Rate Texturing.
The report highlights that this GPU may be at least two generations behind the fastest GPUs on the market, such as the Adreno 830 GPU on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC.
