As earlier reported, the Google Pixel 9 was spotted on Geekbench with 8 GB of RAM, a Tensor G4, and CPU performance that somehow managed to be worse than the Pixel 8's. The more premium Pixel 9 Pro XL has now undertaken the same trip as well, albeit with better results.

Unlike the Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro XL delivers numbers that outperform the Pixel 8 Pro (buy on Amazon) and Tensor G3, if only marginally. The flagship phone earns a single-core score of 1950 and a multi-core score of 4655. That translates into about 10% better CPU performance than the Tensor G3 on our database—which averages scores of 1711 and 4382 on the single-core and multi-core tests respectively.

Sadly, though, those numbers indicate the Tensor G4 will remain leagues behind the competition, with Qualcomm's last-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 delivering numbers slightly better than what the Tensor G4 manages on this particular listing. That has held true for the three previous generations of Google's Tensor SoCs, however, and fans of the series will likely point towards real-life use cases as a better indicator of the phones' capabilities.

Like on the Pixel 9's listing, the Pixel 9 Pro XL's chipset has one core clocked at 3.1 GHz, three cores at 2.6 GHz, and four cores at 1.95 GHz. Memory is doubled, though at 16 GB of RAM versus the 8 GB listed for the Pixel 9.