Yesterday we saw the leak of the first renders of the Google Pixel 8, the next high-end smartphone that Mountain View will launch this year, and we told you that this new terminal will premiere at Tensor G3 SoCa very powerful chip whose specifications were a real mystery until today.

According to the latest rumors, the Tensor G3 will be the SoC that will be fitted to the Google Pixel 8 a slightly improved version of what was supposed to be the Samsung Exynos 2300, a chip that was supposed to be used in the Galaxy S23, but was finally discarded in favor of Snapdragon 8 Gen2, which is present in all models of the said terminal.

It is the modifications that Samsung would introduce in the said SoC that would be key improve your performance and efficiencyand to finally deserve to be present in a smartphone of the caliber of Google Pixel 8. As for the specifications, for now we know that this new chip will have:

• CPU divided into three large blocks of cores, one with a high-performance Cortex-X3 core at 3.09 GHz, another with four high-performance cores based on the Cortex-A715 architecture at 2.65 GHz and another block with four high-performance cores based on the architecture Cortex-A510 at 2.1 GHz.
• The Samsung Xclipse 930 GPU, which would replace the Xclipse 920 GPU and could be based on AMD’s RDNA3 architecture.
• A neural processing unit with specific optimizations for artificial intelligence and computational photography.

Xclipse 920 GPU uses the RDNA2 architectureand although it was ultimately promising, its performance fell short of the expectations it had raised. This was largely due to the temperature issues it caused when operating at high operating frequencies and the dependence of said architecture on operating speed to offer good performance.

If this information is confirmed, it will be interesting to see how the Xclipse 930 performs, and if it does indeed use the RDNA3 architecture, we should have a significant improvement in terms of efficiency (power per watt).

Everything I just told you makes a lot of sense because in fact both the original Tensor SoC and the Tensor G2, both used in the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 7, they are based on Exynos 2100 and 2200 SoCs, albeit with important modifications. If all goes according to plan, Google should introduce the Pixel 8 later this year, sometime in October.