Google launched its Pixel 9 with its in-house Tensor G4 chipset. However, like previous Tensor chipsets, the G4 massively underperformed compared to its peers. Significant performance improvements have been rumored for next year’s Tensor G5, but a new leak does nothing to corroborate those reports.
Spotted in the wild, the Tensor G5 has already made it to Geekbench. Listed under the model ID “Google Frankel”, the chipset has two efficient cores clocked at 2.44 GHz, four cores at 2.86 GHz, and a main core at 3.40 GHz. In terms of performance, it records a single-core score of 1323 and a multi-core score of 4004. In comparison, the Pixel 9 Pro XL’s Tensor G4 (buy on Amazon) scores 1950 and 4741 on these two tests respectively – in our tests.
Given the aforementioned reports of notable performance improvements for the Tensor G5 – the chipset is expected to be manufactured using TSMC’s N3E process, and not by Samsung like its predecessors – it seems unlikely that it will deliver processor performance yet worse than the Tensor G4. It is more realistic to think that this listing presents an incredibly early version of the Tensor G5, or that it is a counterfeit. Regardless, these results are unlikely to be representative of the Pixel 10 series chipset.
