Mysterious Google chipset shows up on GeekBench

There are a lot of interesting potential developments involving the future Google Tensor chips. A recent massive leak regarding the Tensor G5 and G6 clams that TSMC will be taking over production of the chips from Samsung. The G5 in particular, will be codenamed “laguna”, be manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm-class N3E process and use a 1x Arm Cortex-X4 prime core, 5x Cortex-A725 performance cores and 2x Arm Cortex-A520 efficiency units, plus a dual-core Imagination Technologies (IMG) DXT-48-1536 unit clocked at 1.1 GHz.

In a rather interesting new development, a mysterious device, codenamed “Google Frankel” has now popped up on GeekBench. Many believe that this is, in fact, the Tensor G5. The CPU setup does seem to match with one prime core, working at up to 3.40GHz, five performance cores, working at up to 2.86GHz and two efficiency cores, clocked at up to 2.44GHz.

That part checks out, however, according to the leak, the chip uses Power VR graphics and not the Imagination Technologies (IMG) DXT-48-1536. It is worth noting that Power VR is still an Imagination Technologies family of products and GPU architecture, so it's not a huge mismatch in information. This could, of course, be a mistake and this GeekBench listing is, in fact, the Tensor G5. In any case, you should not pay too much attention to the benchmark scores, since this is an early version of the chip.

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