Users believe that Google took this step to hide the real performance of the Tensor G3 chip of its own design at the level of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, the capabilities of which do not exceed the performance of mid-range devices.
Despite the removal of benchmarks from Google Play, users are installing applications such as Geekbench 6 from other sources via APK. Thanks to this, it was possible to find out that the performance of the Tensor G3 is significantly lower than that of the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 system and the like. Although Tensor G3 is also declared as the flagship.
At the same time, in graphics tests, Pixel 8 and 8 Pro also lost to most flagship models from other brands.
Source: Ferra
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