Google Tensor G5 โ an 8-core chipset that was announced on August 20, 2025, and is manufactured using a 3-nanometer process technology. It has 1 core Cortex-X4 at 3780 MHz, 5 cores Cortex-A725 at 3050 MHz, and 2 cores Cortex-A520 at 2250 MHz.
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CPU Performance
69
Gaming Performance
25
Battery life
91
NanoReview Score
59
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Is Tensor G5 good or decent for gaming now with the new Mesa Vulkan drivers?
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NopenopenopeJuly 30, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Nah!
Avoid it if google keeps using powervr gpu!
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Senn Lens YTMarch 23, 2026 at 02:08 PM
Google should bring back Mali GPU instead of using PowerVR GPU for the next Tensor chip. Mali GPU supports most of the games but PowerVR not much games support it.
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NoNameJanuary 12, 2026 at 08:04 AM
I think all Google devices now supports Vulkan 1.4?
Yes, with the update. Appreciate your useful comment.
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MrschDecember 28, 2025 at 07:18 PM
Can you update GPU score, please? They did update drivers and a 30 score really does not reflect reality. It's faster than Xclipse 540, from what I've seen irl. Thank you.
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TaroDecember 23, 2025 at 04:42 PM
The Pixel 10 Pro is all hype and no substance... It has a flagship price tag, but the hardware is incredibly weak in comparison. Rendering videos on the Insta360 app takes forever, and the video lags and freezes ๐คญ๐๐. Honestly, it feels like it's on the same level as a Redmi phone thatโs 20 times cheaper. Please, just fix the hardware. Just use the Snapdragon Elite 8 Gen 5. Even if you sell it at a higher price, people will still buy itโbetter than having disappointed users feel ripped off by the price they paid.
I dont think this consider as a flagship, well yes it has some flagship feature the performance are really falling behind
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GoreDecember 8, 2025 at 02:14 AM
Flagship price for mid range hardware
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Poop PickleNovember 13, 2025 at 04:02 AM
This is ranked lower than the Tensor G4?? how??
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jonDecember 6, 2025 at 03:03 AM
Not just Tensor G4, this is ranked lower than G3 now lol.
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NovaNovember 2, 2025 at 07:24 PM
The hardware shortcomings of the Tensor G5 mainly stem from its GPU, CPU, thermal design, modem, and memory architecture. Google made a critical mistake by using the **PowerVR DXT-48-1536 GPU**, which delivers only about 1.6 TFLOPS of compute power, has weak driver support, and poor Vulkan/OpenCL optimizationโresulting in underwhelming gaming performance.
On the CPU side, it still relies on **Cortex-X4/A725/A520** cores, which are outdated by 2025 standards and cause excessive heat and power consumption due to their high clock speeds. The **thermal design** is inefficient, leading to high heat density on a small die area and frequent throttling under sustained workloads. Additionally, the chip integrates a **Samsung Exynos 5400 modem**, which draws significant power and reduces overall efficiency. Finally, the **4ร16-bit memory bus** limits bandwidth, preventing the GPU and NPU from reaching their full potential. Altogether, these factors make the Tensor G5 a thermally inefficient chip that struggles to deliver consistent performance despite its promising specifications.
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Leroy.cleffJanuary 17, 2026 at 01:31 AM
Funny how anyone can just pick up their phone and talk about stuff they know absolutely nothing about now๐คฃ
"The 4x 16bit bus limits bandwidth"
Now tell me, which phone SoC doesn't use a 64bit bus?
What's the channel width on LPDDR5?
Can't believe your picking on PowerVR either..... apple's GPU designs are PowerVR based...hell, they basically pioneered TBDR as a rendering technique
They did fall off and hence have a poor software stack...but what makes you think they have a weak GPU architecture?
Even your point about the CPU is only half right....the pipeline length and design of the Cortex X4 mean it isnt meant for โฅ3.4Ghz....ARM stated this
So that's a fault on their part
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SawyiierSeptember 20, 2025 at 07:38 PM
No wonder why we seeing high temps with those insane CPU clocks
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MrschSeptember 19, 2025 at 04:48 PM
Multi-score Geekbench 6.9K?!
Yeah, right... Barely passes 6K, on Pro models.
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Senn Lens YTSeptember 8, 2025 at 02:05 PM
Well... I not sure WHY Google choose PowerVR GPU??? Meanwhile Mediatek uses a better Mali GPU.
Come on Google, please, use back Mali GPU which is much better than PowerVR GPU.
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MrschOctober 14, 2025 at 08:27 AM
Yeah, would have gone with Mali-G720 MP7, if I were Google.
The thing with PowerVR seems to be slow driver updates, but let's hope they improve with time.
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tall$assSeptember 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
its more than enough, they made a huge improvement since last year and still its tsmc so no more thermal trhottle and other issues from samsung sh*t
Despite obviously qualcomm made they also a big improvement because they were afraid of competition , otherwise snapdragon 8 gen 4, would have the same scores.
Anyway I am going to buy it anyway just because it is a Pixel, and I only need Pixels, so i didn't care even if they still had scamsung processor, which is very bad, but I still can accept it for my use, am not going to do crazy gaming and content creator stuff. I also really like to have a very reactive phone, and the snapdragon
8 elite is something I really desire, but I think pixels are still more optimized and more reactive because of pixel experience stock rom, or aosp based roms, since its the only device you can definitely always mod with custom roms since its the phone from google. You can always very easily unlock bootloader and perform rooting, and other stuff. That is why its my best choice, otherwise I don't care about performance be the best. But it still got a huge improvement beside not having that crap of scamsung anymore so i am really happy this is the phone I want, and anyway aosp roms are extremely lightweight on RAM so I do not need any snapdragon 8 elite or apple A18 pro or 24 gigabytes of ram because I have a very reactive phone even if its very old it is gonna be more reactive than galaxy s25 and it is gonna last many years even of unofficial support from roms and i do not like personalization from phone brands, its just bloatware and I hate it, I only need pixel experience as a stock rom and aosp roms always available very easily contrary to most other phones, including oneplus, they are all difficult to get device trees and development even started, they are terrible. So most phones are absolute sh*t even with snap 8 elite i do not care its more powerful, the only best mobile phone is google pixel, long life to google pixels, i will buy pixels forever!!
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watSeptember 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This new SoC on TSMC is the worst trash anyone has ever seen... The reviews and comparisons all say the efficiency is garbage and the heat is insane. All the charts also say this chip on TSMC is trash... Just stop lying.
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BonSeptember 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Shlomo, you really fell for google marketing and constantly buy a mediocre phone just because it is a pixel? Honestly.. This phone wouldn't even last 4 years because in that period of time it's going to be waay too slow how about you reconsider your choices and stop living in a bubble and accept the unfortunate reality that your beloved pixel is a piece of junk.
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asdNovember 14, 2025 at 01:34 PM
Bon, Way too slow? Dno, my Pixel 6 was absolutely fine for everyday use and I only swapped to the Pixel 10 since I broke the phone :P
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Leroy.cleffJanuary 17, 2026 at 01:33 AM
asd, Lots of spec sheet fanboys in here with zero actual knowledge on microarchitecture
All hail the Pixel
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Senn Lens YTSeptember 2, 2025 at 02:22 PM
I was think planning for either Google Pixel 10 Pro or OPPO Reno14 Pro. But I'm quite surprised that... Premium mid range like OPPO Reno14 Pro is slightly more powerful than premium flagship like Google Pixel 10 Pro. Despite MediaTek Dimensity 8450 is not top tier like Google Tensor G5 or else Dimensity 9400/9400+.
Google next time should optimize the gaming performance until some people claims that it is on par with Apple A16 Bionic.
I really hope next Google Tensor will be better even through changing from Samsung to TSMC
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HehAugust 31, 2025 at 01:50 AM
Google need to up their gpu game bruh powervr? U serious
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WuejrfjAugust 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lol I thought the switch will save tensor from Exynos curse but why is now Exynos looks like have a better track even after all misfortune it faced now im curious how an Exynos 2500 will perform on a slab phone with proper cooling system im actually have high expectations to its efficiency with the GAA performance? Let's talk about the price;(
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FloppyBirdAugust 28, 2025 at 04:54 AM
Damn even SD8Gen3 beats the Tensor G5, mainly because of its weak GPU. There CPU scores comes close or even better for the G5 cause it has the next gen A725 cores VS A720 cores of 8Gen3.
They're saying nothing phone 3 is overprice because the 8s gen 4 for $700 and here we come the things that worse and more priced. Yet their fans will cope harder and harder
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JustifiedAugust 26, 2025 at 08:52 PM
Itโs only worst in cpu and gpu
A soc isnโt just cpu and gpu if it was it would be and apu it seems not many people know that
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Fact checkerAugust 31, 2025 at 01:55 PM
Pixels heavily drop after launch. No one buys a pixel for full price. The pixel has a better screen, better camera, more ai if you care, overall more polished better software with 7 years of updates, an objectively better deisgn. What does the nothing phone have? A random button on the back and a quirky design. The interface feels smoother on the pixel ๐คทโโ๏ธ correct me if im wrong
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SkyDecember 5, 2025 at 05:58 PM
Fact checker, Oh you are so so wrong. Keep inhaling Google copium trash
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RistosFebruary 17, 2026 at 08:57 PM
Sky, Some of as like to use a phone instead of a spec sheet.
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MikwAugust 21, 2025 at 06:41 PM
The CPU Is at same level of Snapdragon 8 gen 3 or 8s Gen 4, the problem Is the GPU, of you go on the Website of Imagination Tecnology there Is an explaintion about the score of the gpu used on Tensor G5, it's a midrange GPU! It's has less Ray tracking compability and less tflops of flagship GPU of IMG technology (1,5tflops against 2.7tflops) so the G5 has:
Same CPU performance of Snapdragon 8 gen 3
Same GPU performance of Snapdragon 8 gen 2
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DayaMarch 6, 2026 at 04:21 AM
My iPhone with a a16 bionic soc is somehow slightly faster than this soc google really has not done good in the soc design area
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ZeroAugust 21, 2025 at 02:07 PM
Nailed it: CPU wise is on par with SD 8 Gen 3, GPU wise, they MUST optimize drivers to get the best possible score, expecting to be on par with the Adreno from the same SD8 Gen 3.
PS: The GPU is PowerVR D-Series DXT-48-1536 MC1
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MikeAugust 21, 2025 at 06:43 PM
So Tensor G5 Will have same CPU performance of Snapdragon 8 gen 3 and same GPU performance of Snapdragon 8 gen 2 (1.5tflops), of Google had choose the flagship GPU of Imagination Tecnology with 2.7flops instead of the already chosed, the G5 was almost good as Snap 8 gen 3 in every specs
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ZeroAugust 25, 2025 at 03:24 PM
Mike, And thinking that Google plans to choose an inferior GPU for the next gen... If that happens, Google will pull a hara-kiri with that.
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MikeAugust 29, 2025 at 03:39 PM
Zero, If google had choose the Imagination Imagination IMG DXT-72- 2304 RT3 this tensor g5 was on pair with snapdragon 8 gen 3
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apollonAugust 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
wrong, it's should be 4nm
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AbhijeetAugust 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Bro it supports bluetooth 6 but you are showing 5.4.
Google made their worst mistake partnering with Scam-sung for chip fabrication. Starting from Pixel 6, their modem tends to throttle, which pulls down the entire performance of the phone. It's astonishing that it took Google 4 years to realize Samsung is one of the worst when it comes to fabs. Nothing CEO once said Samsung's fab is so bad it would put our business to bankruptcy. TSMC would save them from thermals, but their CPUs are still underpowered compared to the competition.
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JanAugust 26, 2025 at 08:08 PM
Google teamed up with Samsung since they had no choice. They needed to learn how to fabricate a mobile SoC and Samsung was a great start, but not without bumps. Even Apple had to start somewhere, hence they teamed up with Samsung in early days to fabricate Apple chips. Apple used Imagination GPUs in the early days before they carried on and moved all SoC development in-house. Google will only get better year on year and design phones for their intended goal and not compete with other phones by raw performance.
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HonkAugust 27, 2025 at 01:53 AM
Tensor G5 also has Samsung network modem.
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Randy chanJuly 25, 2025 at 04:05 AM
Apple A19 Pro
Media Tek Dimensity 9500
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
All 3 will make Google's upcoming Tensor G5 seem outdated or even primitive despite finally partnering with TSMC
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TommyAugust 14, 2025 at 03:14 PM
And? Who really cares about peak performance other than enthusiasts? The average person doesn't need chips like these in a phone. To think that a chip is "primitive" just because the competition is better is silly. 99% of the time you won't notice between this year's mobile CPU and one from two years ago.
There's an argument to be made that some will use Pixel phones for 7 years, until it runs out of updates. But as someone who has used phones for 4+ in the past, I'd say that performance is generally quite good even years past a phone's prime.
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LCHAugust 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tommy, And most cares. If no one cares then we wouldn't be going forward and all the brands wouldn't make it faster.
So the one who thinks no one cares is just stupid.
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TommyAugust 15, 2025 at 08:47 PM
LCH, Ask your mother which processor her phone has. Ask your father how much RAM his phone has. Ask your sibling what resolution their phone's screen is. Unless they're nerds like you and I, they won't know.
I care about specs. You care about specs. But to the average person, it doesn't matter. If I handed you two otherwise identical phones, with the only difference being that their CPUs were 2 years apart, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in day to day use.
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ryuAugust 16, 2025 at 07:55 AM
Tommy, but no average person buy pixel.
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TommyAugust 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ryu, I'm going to disagree again. In Canada, I see Pixel phones fairly often. In fact, market share is 8%. That's fairly significant in the grand scheme of things.
In the USA, the market share is 3%. In Japan, I can't find exact numbers, but it's at least 8% and perhaps even as high as 15%.
Are these numbers massive? No. But enough *average* people buy Pixels. Brands who target enthusiasts have very little market share outside of select regions. I pretty much never see a OnePlus phone in the wild, yet they're always talked about on YouTube and enthusiast circles. Same with Xiaomi
You enthusiasts need to step outside your bubble and actually check out what's going on in the real world.
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hhhAugust 18, 2025 at 01:43 PM
Tommy, So many people cares. Thats why pixel sales are shi for years. The only thing nobody cares is tensor.
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ZeroAugust 18, 2025 at 02:01 PM
ryu, They will outright go for an iPhone in the US
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nxshlAugust 19, 2025 at 07:41 AM
Tommy, Shut yo ass up, Tommy. Buying a flagship is an investment that should last 5+ years, not the Tensor-Exynos crap that gets throttled after 2 minutes of existence. Your entire logic here is dog shit. If, as a customer, you don't care about the specs and are willing to pay whatever the corporates throw at you, you are a blind fan. If you can't innovate or bring VFM products, you are out of the market.
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ZeroAugust 20, 2025 at 04:31 PM
Tommy, Well, people will use iPhones instead of Pixels if the difference is high.
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JamesAugust 20, 2025 at 07:17 PM
LCH, Meh, if u don't game then the Tensor G4 was more than enough already, G5 will be fine for 90% of users
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perelliAugust 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Tommy, The average person doesn't care about SOC bc doesn't care about microlagging. In day to day use you definetely would be able to tell the difference, if you start to scroll an unoptimized 3rd party app (or animations too). The strongest flagship CPU's, GPU's can handle them. The user experience is on different level. If it does matter.
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AnonAugust 21, 2025 at 03:14 PM
Tommy, "Who really cares about peak performance other than enthusiasts?"
Uhm...enthusiasts are the ones that know better lol. Pretending cpu power that a mobile operating system doesn't let you use actually matters is what kids that don't know tech think, not tech enthusiasts who caught on like a decade ago that the industry had run out of ideas.
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TommyAugust 21, 2025 at 07:39 PM
Tommy, Who cares about pixel hahaha, because google put that garbage chip that 2-3 years behind in compitition and also sell like top primium phone. Why they took so much money from customer? That what I care that pixel fit on mid range phone. Even back 3 cameras not even smoothly integrated so how I can consider that is primium top class phone?
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Francis August 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tommy, Very true.... I don't know what's the buzz in the whole chipset race. I use a Redmi note 10 pro whose chipset is way way below and stills performs well for me. I play COD well and do every other normal task without much issues. Talk more of a tensor G5 that's way ahead.
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SkyDecember 5, 2025 at 06:26 PM
Francis , Who cares? Try running genshin impact at 60fps max settings with Vulcan backend. The fact that Google has the nerve to charge 1000$+ for a phone that can't run genshin is why I care
akp831, sure it is good enough but im expecting the 2025 standard
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ZeroAugust 11, 2025 at 05:03 PM
It's decent CPU wise, the issue is now GPU. Seems that is unoptimized and it will be really bad for Google considering that next year will use a totally inferior GPU.
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ZeroJuly 4, 2025 at 02:41 PM
So... maybe at best might be on the ballpark of Exynos 2400... when the 2500 is about to be released.
it depends on how well optmized is it
Seems that Google needs more optimizations. If Tensor G6 screws with the GPU performance, that's all for Google.
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Tensor G5June 3, 2025 at 01:17 PM
Leaks confirmed. Core sequence is as written here.
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MediatekNovember 23, 2024 at 01:18 AM
it's a very good thing that Img GPUs are coming back into the mobile scene
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akp831February 4, 2025 at 04:25 PM
IMG AKA PowerVR GPUS are no longer in production since 2021, My best guess is Tensor G5 will use Mail GPU.
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No it's not.March 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
akp831, PowerVR GPUs are still being licensed and produced although they have shifted less from the mobile market due to low adoption and demand, into others like in the embedded and automotive markets. At least Tensor G5 and G6 will use Imagination's GPUs. It's somewhat disappointing because the original Tensor G4 was supposed to have the same GPU that the Tensor G6 will. I think the reason they will do this is that Arm GPU's albeit having great potential, have weaker ML performance compared to competing solutions. And also Arm will reportedly have price hikes so maybe Google is budget-constrained.
Yea but there have been driver issues with these IMG GPUs for quite sometime. The incompatibility of the Vulkan does limit their performance, not to mention that they struggle to run some, if not most of the 3D benchmarks. Hopefully its not the same with this one (DXT-48-1536).
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Dr mujeeb hamidNovember 6, 2024 at 05:38 AM
For anyone asking why the score mentioned here i.e, (2267/5712) doens't match any leaked scores yet, or in other words, is too low, or for some it might even seem higher.
Reason it, it will score higher actually, but leaked scores are just 1400/4100.
One should also know, max frequency in that score was only 2.0ghz, compared to 3.4 ghz, so clearly device was running in battery saver mode, & at only 60% capacity, or even lower.
Comparison between 8gen3 & tensor g5:
Cortex x4 @ 3.3 ghz vs 3.4 ghz
5 Cortex a725 @ 2.85 ghz vs 5 cortex a720 @ 3.15 & 2.96 ghz
2 Cortex a525 @ 2.4 ghz vs 2 cortex 520 @ 2.27.
So clearly from above comparison, tensor g5 is a better chip.
(Some might say cortex a725 is clocked at lower frequency, well, that ain't true. Bcz cortex a725 scores 12 % more at same frequency than a720. That means 2.85 ghz of cortex a725 is equal to 3.2 ghz of cortex 720)
Now add another dimension as well, tsmsc 3nm is 20-25 % more efficient than tsmc 4nm.
So in all, tensor g5 will be a better chip than 8g3 by around 25 % in gaming efficiency & sustained tasks but in multicore scores it will just be around the same as 8 gen 3.
Exp Gekbnech 6 scores : 8 gen 3 vs tensor g5
Typical scores : 2100/7000 vs 2200/7200
Highest scores : 2300/7450 @ 11.3w vs 2375/7600 @ 8.5w
3w scores : 3922 vs 4600
(Note : @ 3w d9300 scored 3590 & d9400 scored 4360. That's a 20 % improvement. Consider also that Dimensity 9300 & 9400 used same 7 nodes, only difference was cortex x4 vs x5. They did use more frequencies as well, but their gain is at high scores only not at 3w point. What I wanted to say is that d9400 scores better bcz of tsmc 3nm nodes, which is used by tensor g5 as well ).
PS : in typical multicore score calculation, all the 3 chips, i.e, A18 pro, D9400 & 8 elite consume either 12w or even more.
So tensor g4 can still go above 8.5w to achieve more score, but there will be very minor gains. Only way they can have gains above 8.5w is if they use more L2 cache. But i doubt they will do so. If they used more than 16mb of L2 cache, then multicore scores will cross even 8000.
So u can't rule out a score of 2375/8100 as well. But it will realistically touch only 2375/7600.
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MemerCatApril 24, 2025 at 09:37 AM
how sure are you about this being the case? because if the tensor g5 offers a huge amount of improvement to performance then without a doubt it would destroy its competitors in terms of value.
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TG5September 18, 2025 at 01:40 AM
Lol. guess what mujeeb, Tensor G5 turned out to be total trash from a scammer company like boogle. thats why do not spit shit until its released. Its not Qualcomm infront of you, Its shitty boogle company that only knows how to scam.
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akp831November 4, 2024 at 05:15 PM
that antutu source is clearly lacking, but at least it will not thermal-throttle as hard as it's predecessor
