Google recently issued a statement to 9to5Google stating that in order to prevent the leakage of relevant hardware information, it deliberately blocked mainstream benchmarking applications on the pre-released Google Pixel 8 and Google Pixel 8 Pro phones.
The statement reads as follows:
As in previous years, we blocked related benchmarking apps during the pre-release phase of Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones to avoid leaking benchmarks and device specifications.
The restrictions have been lifted after the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones went on sale. If the reviewer wants to test the relevant performance in advance, he can install and run it through sideloading.Google took extraordinary measures for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, preventing reviewers from downloading popular benchmarking tools, including Geekbench and 3D Mark, directly through its Play Store. In addition, the company is extending this block to all new users of Pixel 8 phones after their launch in an attempt to suppress the spread of the benchmark results.
Google emphasizes that the Tensor G3 chip is designed with efficiency and artificial intelligence in mind, rather than purely pursuing performance, which shows that the company is very aware of the chip’s relative shortcomings in performance. While some reviewers were blocked from installing the test software through the Google Play Store, some reviewers were still able to bypass this restriction through “sideloading.” Therefore, the results of the Tensor G3 chip on Geekbench, 3DMark and other testing software were exposed, and these results showed that its performance was very average.
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