The Pixel 5 finally delivers the gaming performance it should have from the start
The Google Pixel 5 (and 4a 5G) with its mid-tier Snapdragon 765G was not made to please mobile gamers — something we even mentioned in our review. While that notion is not changing completely, the April Pixel update seems to have brought a sizable improvement in GPU performance, as noted by several users.
Andreas Proschofsky, the editor of
Der Standard, took to Twitter to share that the Google Pixel 5 now scores 30-50% higher on certain benchmarks like PCMark. This was further corroborated by
Andrei from
Anandtech, who says that the scores are now in line with or better than other Snapdragon 765G phones — double those published at the time of his review.