Alleged Google Tensor G5 surfaces on Geekbench with quite miserable scores

Google launched its Pixel 9 series with its in-house Tensor G4 chipset. Like previous Tensor chipsets, however, the G4 massively underperformed relative to its peers. Word on the grapevine has tipped significant performance upgrades for next year's Tensor G5 but a new leak does nothing to corroborate those reports.

As spotted in the wild, the Tensor G5 has allegedly made an early trip to Geekbench. Listed with the model ID "Google Frankel", the chipset features two efficiency cores clocked at 2.44 GHz, four cores at 2.86 GHz, and a prime core at 3.40 GHz. Performance-wise, it records a single-core score of 1323 and a multi-core score of 4004. In comparison, the Tensor G4 on the Pixel 9 Pro XL (buy on Amazon) scores 1950 and 4741 on those two tests respectively—in our tests.

Considering the aforementioned reports of notable performance boosts for the Tensor G5—the chipset is slated to be built on TSMC's N3E process, and not by Samsung like its predecessors—it seems rather unlikely that it would deliver even worse CPU performance than the Tensor G4. More realistically, this listing features an incredibly early version of the Tensor G5, or is outright spoofed. Either way, these scores are unlikely to be representative of the Pixel 10 series chipset.