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.
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[–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pixel users who can share their experience?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Only stuff that I noticed after the latest update on my pixel 7 is that notification sounds feel a bit with less bass than before. And possibly the haptics a bit different. But this is after reading someone complaining about that, so it might be a placebo effect on my mind

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The march update definetly helped with system ui animations, the recent apps menu would stutter on every opening, whereas now it's always smooth.

    Also ruined haptics.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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