As we all know since before the announcement of Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the new high-end smartphones of the Mountain View giant are the first to mount the company’s first proprietary processor: Google Tensor.
An in-depth analysis on Google Tensor
In these hours, the colleagues of AnandTech have published an in-depth analysis of Google Tensor putting on paper some features that have been circulating on the net for some time. First, the chip Google shares many similarities with the processor family Exynos of Samsung: same power management architecture and memory, read the analysis.
| Google Tensor and Samsung Exynos 2100: Similar But Different | ||
| SoC |
Google Tensor |
Exynos 2100 |
| CPU | 2x Cortex-X1 @ 2.80GHz 2x1024KB pL2 2x Cortex-A76 4x Cortex-A55 4MB sL3 |
1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.91GHz 1x512KB pL2 3x Cortex-A78 4x Cortex-A55 4MB sL3 |
| GPU | Mali G78 MP20 @ 848 MHz (shaders) 996 MHz (tiler / L2) |
Mali G78 MP14 @ 854 MHz |
| Memory Controller |
4x 16-bit CH
@ 3200MHz LPDDR5 / 51.2GB/s 8MB System Cache |
|
| ISP | Hybrid Exynos + Google ISP | Full Exynos ISP Blocks + DSP |
| NPU | Google edgeTPU @ 1066MHz |
Exynos NPU @ 1352MHz |
| Media | Samsung Multi-Function Codec
8K30 & 4K120 encode & H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 |
|
| Google “BigOcean” 4K60 AV1 Decode |
||
| Modem | Exynos Modem 5123 External (LTE Category 24/18) |
Exynos Modem 5123 Integrated (LTE Category 24/18) |
| Mfc. Process | Samsung 5nm (5LPE) |
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However, Google has managed some rather fundamental aspects of the new processor in a different way. First of all, the setup of the cores are very different from the typical ones used by Samsung on the Exynos: the US company has in fact adopted a “2 + 2 + 4” configuration, and it is not clear the reason behind the implementation of the Cortex-A76 cores. now dated and with poor performance management.
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The idea is that Google, with the Tensor chip, had a mixed approach: on the one hand it relied on part of Samsung’s Exynos chip architecture, on the other hand, it implemented some customizations that prompted AnandTech to describe the processor as semi-custom. If you want to know more information on Google’s processor, consumption, performance and much more, we leave you the link in the source.