Your Pixel phone should perform better in GPU benchmarks after updating to the most recent Android release. Here's why.

TL;DR

  • Multiple Pixel phone users are reporting significant boosts in Geekbench GPU scores after updating to the Android 16 beta.
  • Android Authority can confirm that Pixel phones are performing better in this benchmark since launch, but that this is also the case on the most recent Android 15 stable release.
  • The reason for this performance increase hasn’t been confirmed but likely has to do with recent GPU driver updates.
  • Higgs boson@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The article is referring to Android 16 Beta. Most people will be on Android 15 or older.

    I’m on Graphene, so Stable channel is 15 and I am not brave enough for Beta on my everyday driver.