The Google Pixel 10 Pro’s Tensor G5 chip is impressive–if you compare it to an iPhone 14

Google presented its new Pixel 10 on Wednesday, and has the new G5 Tensor G5 chip from Google, which, according to the company, is 34% faster than its predecessor. It seems great for Pixel customers, but if you keep a trace of the trends in the smartphones market as a whole, you are probably interested in the way the Tensor G5 works against Apple fleas.

The Pixel 10 will not start the shipment before August 10, but WCCF Tech identified the reference results for the Pixel 10 Pro XL and the new Geekbench browser chip 6. The WCCF Tech calls the gains of the new G5 tensor “impressive” compared to the G4 tensor. But we took the figures and compared them to the A18 fleas of the iPhone 16 series, well, the scores of the Tensor G5 are not so impressive.

The A18 Pro is 30% faster than the G5 Tensor in the Geekbench 6 multi-core test, and 45% faster in a single nucleus. Even the Bionic A16 three years ago and currently in the iPhone 15 – is a little faster than the G5 tensor, although less than 10%.

To give credit to the Tensor G5, we have said here at Macworld for some time that Apple Silicon is so fast that many users do not benefit from performance. Thus, the Tensor G5 is fast enough for most users, just as we sometimes say that a 15 year phone is a phone good enough for many customers. (An iPhone 15 is $ 100 less than a Google Pixel 10, by the way.)

In all cases, the benchmarks show how Apple has an advantage with an aging chipset – Apple should introduce the A19 chip in the coming weeks as part of its iPhone 17 introduction. Which means that the performance gap will only widen.