Fast Technology news on October 15, not long ago Google released the latest generation of flagship smartphones Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, both equipped with its latest self-developed Tensor G3 processor.
Tensor G3 is based on a 9-core CPU architecture, including one Cortex-X3 ultra-large core clocked at 3.00GHz, four Cortex-A715 large cores clocked at 2.45GHz, and four Cortex-A510 small cores clocked at 2.15GHz.
The GPU uses a 10-core Arm Mali-G715 GPU, which supports hardware-level ray tracing acceleration like the Apple A17 Pro.
However, recently there was news that Google took extraordinary measures against the Pixel 8/8 Pro, and all new users after the release of the Pixel 8 could not directly download benchmarking tools including GeekBench and 3D Mark through the app store in an attempt to suppress the spread of running results.
GeekBench is a commonly used software for testing and scoring CPUs, which can intuitively obtain single-core and multi-core scores. 3DMark, on the other hand, is a test software that evaluates GPU performance. In most mobile phone reviews, these two test software are important references.
Google is well aware of the relative lack of performance of the Tensor G3 chip, and emphasizes that the chip is designed for efficiency and artificial intelligence, rather than simply pursuing performance or running scores. Here I have to mention a sentence from Lei Jun: "Although the running score cannot fully represent the mobile phone experience, the running score is definitely the basis of the mobile phone experience." ”
Although Google banned users from installing these test software, there were ways to bypass this restriction, so Tensor G3's Geekbench and 3DMark scores were exposed.
One of the Geekbench 6 results showed that the Tensor G3 chip on the Pixel 8 Pro phone scored 1760 in the single-core test and 4442 in the multi-core test, which is far from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip.
Efficiency tests also show that the Tensor G3's GPU efficiency ranking is also at the back of the comparison, comparable to older chips such as the Snapdragon 888.
Google's doing this is really quite like the smell of Jin people covering up their ears and stealing bells.