Pixel 8’s Tensor G3 will be held back by old Arm CPUs
The leaker implies that the Tensor G3 will have one Arm Cortex-X3 running at 3.3 GHz, two Cortex-A715 cores clocked at 2.6 GHz, and four Cortex-A510 cores running at speeds of up to 2.3 GHz.
Arm is reportedly planning to bring out new cores this year. If the Pixel 8 uses last year’s CPUs, it will be at a disadvantage compared to other Android handsets. Still, it would be a noticeable upgrade over the G2, which has two Cortex-X1 cores, two Cortex-A78 cores, and four Cortex-A55 cores,
The primary X4 core will reportedly run at 3.70GHz, which is a 15 percent faster clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s Cortex-X3’s 3.20GHz frequency. Needless to say, this will improve the peak performance significantly.
The chip will likely still not be able to beat Apple’s chip. That’s because the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will allegedly be based on TSMC’s N4P process, whereas the A17 Bionic will be manufactured on the 3nm node.
