Google Tensor
Benchmarks & Specs

The Google Tensor is a 64-bit system-on-a-chip (SOC) processor developed by the American company Google. It was released in the fourth quarter of 2021 and was used in Googles own smartphones Google Pixel 6, Google Pixel 6 Pro and Google Pixel 6a. The Google Tensor is the first generation of Tensor processors and is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers. With the Google Tensor G2, the successor to the first generation came in 2022, which will be installed in the Google Pixel 7.

The Google Tensor is based on a hybrid Prime big.LITTLE core architecture and has a total of eight processor cores. These are divided into 2 prime cores, 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. The two prime cores clock at up to 2.80 gigahertz and are based on an ARM Cortex-X1 core. The two performance cores are based on the ARM Cortex-A76 and clock at up to 2.25 gigahertz. The four efficiency cores, which are used when no computing power is needed to extend the battery life of the smartphone, are based on the ARM Cortex-A55 and clock at a maximum of 1.80 gigahertz.

With the Google Tensor AI (Google Edge TPU with 1.6 TOPS performance), special hardware is built into the Google Tensor, which supports the calculation of AI or ML in hardware.

The internal graphics unit in the Google Tensor is the ARM Mali-G78 with 20 execution units. This iGPU has a total of 320 shader units and clocks at up to 760 megahertz; the graphics unit does not have a turbo mode. It achieves an FP32 computing power of 1943 GigaFLOPS, with single precision. The ARM Mail-G78 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers and comes from the Valhall 2 generation.

The Google Tensor G1 was equipped with up to 12 gigabytes of LPDDR5-5500 memory and has 2 memory channels.

• Specifically developed for Google devices
• Strong performance in Artificial Intelligence
• Solid graphics performance through ARM Mali-G78 MP20
• Efficient handling of everyday tasks