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Leaked Tensor G2 details examined: same CPU, everything else is getting better

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One of the earliest leaks about the Tensor G2 – the new chipset that will power the Pixel 7 series – revealed that the chip will retain the X1, A76 and A55 CPU cores (in a 2 2 4 configuration) as the original. Now developer Kuba Wojciechowski lends more credence to that claim by examining the details of a Geekbench result and others clues. The Tensor G2 will reportedly be manufactured on Samsung's 4nm process (the original chip came from Samsung's 5nm foundries), which has enabled mild bumps in CPU clock speeds. The two Cortex-X1 cores have their cap raised by 50MHz to 2.85GHz (though this peak is likely achieved with only one X1 active), the two Cortex-A76 cores have gotten a bigger 100MHz bump to 2.35GHz, based on Geekbench data. Yes, the G2 is still using A76 cores, even though they were two generations old by the time the original Tensor was released (they were superseded by the A77 and A78).