The Google Pixel 10 series isn’t set to debut until late next year, but a new leak sheds some light on the alleged chipset’s benchmarks. The company is expected to power its anticipated smartphone lineup with the Tensor G5 SoC, which may offer only minor upgrades in terms of GPU power compared to the Tensor G4 chip that currently powers the Pixel 9 series. A separate report suggests that Google may adopt the PowerVR architecture DXT from Imagination Technologies to improve graphics performance.
Google Tensor G5 chipset tests
The Tensor G5 chipset has been spotted on Geekbench with several of its specifications. It is allegedly codenamed “Frankel” and contains eight cores: one main core clocked at 3.4GHz, five intermediate cores clocked at 2.86GHz, and two other cores clocked at 2. 44 GHz. The SoC has an ARMv8 architecture and can be paired with approximately 11.07 GB of RAM.
The alleged chipset also seems to run on Android 15, which has already been released for Pixel smartphones. However, the actual Pixel 10 devices may run on Android 16 out of the box as Google has already confirmed the release schedule for its next Android operating system (OS) and it seems to match the rumored Pixel 10 release schedule. series
In the Geekbench 6.3.0 Android AArch64 cross-platform test, the Tensor G5 chipset scored 1323 and 4004 single and multi-core respectively. By comparison, its predecessor, the Tensor G4 chip in the Pixel 9 Pro XL ( review ), scored 1,944 points in the single-core test and 4,667 points in the multi-core test conducted by Gadgets 360.
The new GPU architecture is still lagging behind
A separate report from Android Authority suggests that Google may adopt the new PowerVR architecture developed by Imagination Technologies for the Tensor G5 GPU. It will likely be a dual-core DXT-48-1536 GPU clocked at 1.1GHz and 1536 FP32 FLOPs per clock. The GPU supports scalable ray tracing, fragment shading rate, and 2D Dual-Rate texturing.
The report highlights that this GPU could 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 processor.