Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro launched to the public just over a week ago, but a controversy has been stirred up around benchmark apps having been blocked via the Play Store ahead of launch.

Google confirms it blocks benchmarks on all Pixel phones as a standard practice. The company has admitted to blocking Play Store downloads of benchmarking apps on the Pixel 8 series during the review ...

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Google kept some of the popular benchmarking apps blocked on the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro until they became publicly available. It was an effort to avoid revealing hardware information prior ...

For the past five years, Google Pixel phones have been powered by an in-house system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by Google. The company's chips have come a long way since then, culminating in the Tensor ...

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Google announced it was retiring its Octane JavaScript benchmark, saying most of its tests are outdated and contained bugs that allowed browser developers to cheat and obtain higher scores than ...

Google is “very comfortable” with Tensor chips not winning benchmarks, a company executive said. The director said Google benchmarks software workloads that will actually run on Pixel phones. Now, ...