New Pixel 10 Pro Leak reveals the critical upgrades from Google

Update, Sunday, March 16, 2025: This article has been updated with further details on the Pixel 10 camera hardware.

Google has made a significant change from the upcoming Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro Smartphones compared to the current models. What difference will the new Tensor Mobile G5 make on the flagship smartphone and why is it a critical moment for Google?

The upcoming Pixel 10 Pro and the rest of the Pixel 10 family will offer significant changes to the hardware at the start in autumn.

Pixel 10 camera selection

Update, Sunday, March 16, 2025: Another change of hardware that is highlighted this weekend will probably be shaking up the market. The Vanilla Pixel 10 is not a mid-range device, is the lowest cheapest handset in the “flagship” area, which corresponds to the basic models of the iPhone 16 and the Galaxy S24. And the Pixel 10 will surpass these hirties in the camera missions thanks to the debut of a three-lens main camera, the first of its kind in this class:

The usual type of world would be to make this third objectively into a telephoto lens, but this would go into one of the sales arguments of the Pixel 10 professional of the equipment of a telephoto lens (the current Pixel 9 Pro, the Pixel 9 not). It could be that the Pixel 10 could be equipped with an X5 increase with a simpler X2 or X3 telephoto lens.

This would give Pixel 10 a significant sales argument that corresponds to a healthy contrast between Google's smartphone and the S24 and the iPhone 16. Apple's decision could even challenge the iPhone 16E of 599 US dollars with a single lens for its main camera.

Tensor of pixel 10 professional

Thanks to the change from Samsung Foundry suppliers to TSMC, the tensor mobile chipset is more than a simple upgrade. This is a fundamental revision of the silicon. The Pixel 10 family is generally expected to launch a new mobile phone scener -scenor -chipset. Since the start of the Tensor G1 on Pixel 6, every new Pixel update has been accompanied by a new chipset.

There is a remarkable difference to the next tensor. The tensor G5 is not compiled by Samsung Foundry (like all previous tensor -G chipsets), but by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. This allows the chipset to move from a 4-nanometer process to a 3-nanometer process. This also means that Google is designed much further down in the hardware stack, since it is not dependent on the Exynos base used by Samsung Foundry.

Pixel 10 ProS New chipset

The move to a 3NM process should make the chip more efficient in terms of energy consumers and at the same time offer more power. The early benchmarks of pixel 10 were lower with the tensor G4 than the Pixel 9, although I would not value these numbers too much; They were recorded in November 2024 when Pixel 9 was on the market for almost three months, and the tensor G5 would be in the early test days, almost nine months before the potential start date.

It is enough time for the tensor G5 to be optimized on Pixel 10 family hardware, and I would expect the benchmark assessment to increase. Google's tensor chipsets have never pushed to the highest performance levels. Instead, they focus on efficient generative artificial intelligence and machine learning routines that run directly on the silicon supported by the software.

Discussions this weekend suggest that one of the goals of the tensor G5 is the change from Samsung Foundry to TSMC. Essentially, the tensor G5 can be seen as a TSMC variant of the tensor G4.

Pixel 10 per questions

Those looking for Google to press the same high -performance room as Qualcomms Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (and the overclocked 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy) is disappointed. The Pixel 10 Mag Googles flagship family, but the decision was made many years ago that the persecution of the ultimate performance was not the only goal. Of course, it plays a role in design, but the hardware supports the software in general and the AI ​​in particular. It is a way that Apple can hug with its AXX series on the iPhone and the narrow nature of iOS. Android will never be as close to the silicon as iOS, but in Pixel 10 family, Google should shorten this distance in order to find more practical performance over raw numbers.

How much the difference in performance will be and how much effects this will have on the daily use of the flagship smartphone are important questions about the new family Pixel 10.

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