Well, friends, the day has finally come: Google Pixel day. Today is the day that Google will officially reveal the Pixel 10 series after months of leaks, and it’s a day we should all be excited about. Instead, a lot of Pixel fans are upset and complaining.
Those complaints stem from a last-minute Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark leak, supposedly showing just how fast Google’s new Tensor G5 chip is. Assuming the benchmarks are legit, the good news is that the Tensor G5 is faster than the Tensor G4. However, the G5 still trails behind Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite — and that’s what has some people furious.
Redditors have called this “pathetic,” “sad,” “a f***ing joke,” and so on. But I’ve got to be honest — I couldn’t care less about any of this. And for most of you reading this, you shouldn’t care either.
What do you think of these leaked scores if true? 1546 votes I'd be happy with these scores 8 % It's okay but could be better 17 % I'd be disappointed 43 % I don't care about benchmarks 32 %
Why you shouldn’t read too closely into these benchmarks
As we head into today’s Made by Google event, the Tensor G5 chip is almost a bigger deal than the Pixel 10 phones themselves. We expect the G5 to be Google’s first 3nm chip and the first Tensor chip manufactured by TSMC rather than Samsung Foundry.
Those two “firsts” should translate to numerous upgrades over the Tensor G4, performance being one of them. And as we see from these benchmarks, it looks like that’s what we’re getting. If we take these leaked benchmarks at face value, the Pixel 10 Pro XL has almost a 22% increase in single-core CPU performance compared to the Pixel 9 Pro XL, along with a staggering 46% increase in multi-core performance.
That’s an impressive year-over-year upgrade, and it’s one I just can’t be upset about. But that’s clearly not how everyone feels. Whether it’s the fact that these GeekBench scores are still lower than Snapdragon 8 Elite phones or that the Pixel 10 Pro XL’s GPU scored lower than the Pixel 9 Pro XL, a lot of folks are already ready to write the Tensor G5 off even before they’ve used the chip themselves.
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I think there are two ways to view this, both of which make this complaining look a little ridiculous.
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