Leak: Google's performance forecast compares Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 with Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek
Only on Wednesday were we able to find out the planned specs of the Google Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 from a credible source, and now the same source has just provided Google's internal performance forecasts.
When looking at the following data, it must be noted that Google has extrapolated the performance increase of competing chips from the upgrades of the past three years, whereby an above-average performance increase was taken into account for Qualcomm's new Nuvia processor cores next year. Interestingly, Google always falls behind the flagship chips of the three most important competitors in its own forecasts.
Google apparently expects that the Tensor G5 of the Pixel 10 series and the Tensor G6 of the Pixel 11 series will not be able to keep up with the flagship chips from MediaTek, Qualcomm and Apple at the time of launch, at least as far as performance in Geekbench is concerned. The exact figures should be viewed as very rough guidelines at best, as it is simply too early for benchmark results from prototypes.
The forecast makes sense in view of the leaked specs, as the Google Tensor G5 is said to be equipped with an ARM Cortex-X4 super core, just like the Tensor G4, meaning that single-thread performance will hardly increase. However, since the new chip has five instead of just three performance cores, which are more modern Cortex-A725 instead of Cortex-A720, it is hardly surprising that the multi-thread performance is expected to increase by around 30%.
The Tensor G6 will ultimately do away with efficiency cores altogether and instead combine a new ARM Cortex-X930 super core with six Cortex-A730 performance cores, which should lead to around 15% higher single-thread performance and around 11% stronger multi-core performance compared to the Tensor G5. If this forecast is anywhere near accurate, customers can look forward to a considerable performance upgrade with the Pixel 10, even if Google cannot catch up with the competition.
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