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James Rogerson

This Google Pixel 8a benchmark suggests it might not be worth buying

Google Pixel 7a review back angled sticky notes

Google’s mid-range a-series phones generally do a good job of providing the essence of its flagships at a lower price, but the Google Pixel 8a might fail at this, going by an early benchmark.8

You see, one of the high points of this line is that the phones use the same chipsets as the company’s flagships. So the Pixel 7a has the same chipset as the Pixel 7 and even the Pixel 7 Pro. But a Geekbench listing – spotted by GSMArena – suggests that while the Google Pixel 8a will have the same Tensor G3 chipset as the standard Pixel 8 is expected to have, it will be an underclocked version.

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