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

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.

According to the listing – which is for a device with a codename previously attached to the Pixel 8a – this phone has a chipset with a prime core clocked at 2.91GHz, four performance cores running at 2.37GHz, and four efficiency cores running at 1.70GHz.

For reference, the standard version of the Tensor G3 reportedly has a 3GHz prime core, 2.45GHz performance cores, and 2.15GHz efficiency cores. So in every case the cores in this benchmark are slower.