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According to documents revealed to Android Authority by a source earlier this week, next year's Tensor G5 and 2026's Tensor G6 will drop a nanometer and be Google's first fully internally designed new 3nm chips, manufactured by TSMC, supposed to be faster and more efficient than the 4nm Samsung chips in the Pixel 9 series. This will finally allow Google's chips to catch up a bit with Apple's A18 processor and Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Today, Notebookcheck is supposed to show how Google expects the Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 to perform in the future compared to Apple's A series, Qualcomm's Snapdragon, and MediaTek's Dimensity SoC inside. reportedly received performance predictions from sources.

The comparisons begin in 2021 and continue through 2026. By Google's extrapolation, the company's chips routinely lag behind competitors' flagship chips, although they are improving. Based on Geekbench scores, Google believes that its Tensor chip will not be able to achieve the same level of performance as chips like Apple's current A18 or next year's A19.

To be fair to Google, these prognostications are probably based on prototypes of chips that are not yet ready for the mainstream.

Nevertheless, the predicted performance makes sense: the Tensor G5 is powered by the same Arm Cortex-X4 that powers the Tensor G4.

Apparently, the Tensor G6 in the Pixel 11 will do away with the efficiency core in favor of a new combination of an ARM Cortex-X930 super core and six Cortex-A730 performance cores.

For fans of Google's Pixel series, the next two iterations could be quite impressive and should be more competitive with Samsung and Apple's flagship models, even if not as powerful.