Google Pixel 6 Pro alleged benchmarks just tipped key specs

Google Pixel six Pro alleged benchmarks just tipped key specs

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Google has promised the Pixel 6 will launch this fall, so the arrival of benchmarks on sites similar Geekbench shouldn't be entirely surprising. All the same, the Pixel 6 Pro listing spotted past Phone Arena is interesting for a number of reasons, even if information technology should exist taken with a larger pinch of salt than usual.

The centerpiece of the new phone will exist Google's brand new Tensor scrap with reports suggesting that information technology could in fact be an unreleased Samsung chip. If that's the case, the Geekbench list is interesting, because information technology points to a SoC comprising two Cortex X1 cores clocked at 2.8Ghz, two mid-tier cores at 2.25Ghz and four cores set to 1.8Ghz. Samsung and Qualcomm flagship chips, meanwhile, characteristic i primary cadre, three middle cores and iv high-efficiency ones.

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Still, the leaker Digital Chat Station seemed to support the listing in a contempo tweet, calculation that it volition come with the Mali-G78 GPU.

#DigitalChatStationSuspected Google self-developed flake: 2*2.eight GHz+2*2.25 GHz+4*one.8GHz, Mali-G78 GPU.Two 2.8GHz X1 super cores, Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, and one X1 can't hold it down. It would exist a bit brave if the mass production does not modify. movie.twitter.com/bGEtHiYzkHSeptember 11, 2021

Co-ordinate to the list, the device will come with Android 12 — unsurprising, given information technology'due south made by Google — and will pack 12GB RAM. The actual raw performance numbers are somewhat underwhelming for the time being, with a single-core score of 414 and multi-core performance of two,074.

That'south considerably weaker than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, which tends to score around 1,000 and 3,500 by the same tests, but you shouldn't read as well much into that at this point. Pre-release phones on Geekbench oft underperform, before they've been fine-tuned for better performance: a case in point existence the Samsung Milky way S21 Iron, which offset appeared in May with underwhelming numbers, but has steadily improved with each subsequent appearance.

The new Tensor fleck volition, according to Google, be a game changer, with a special focus on auto learning and AI which will interpret to what the company describes as a "transformed experience for the camera, oral communication recognition and other Pixel 6 features."

Nosotros should know how well these claims stand upwardly to scrutiny very soon indeed, with reports by and large suggesting the Pixel 6 will be unveiled next month.

Prolific leaker Jon Prosser has predicted that the handsets will be unveiled on October xix and available to buy on October 28, and that beginning date has been given extra credence, as "Tuesday 19" appears on pictures of the device published this week by Google itself.

All eyes are on an Oct event for Google so, and who knows — nosotros may fifty-fifty meet the long awaited Pixel Fold make an appearance too...

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