April Android security update features Pixel 5 GPU performance upgrades The Pixel 4a 5G will also get GPU performance optimizations Google has started to roll out the April Android security update for its Pixel smartphones. This month’s update includes performance improvements for some of the company’s most recent devices. The company says the update offers “performance optimizations for certain graphics-intensive apps and games,” for its 2020 5G handsets. XDA Developers notes that testing the Pixel 5 after the update shows substantially improved GPU performance. Further, Anandtech reviewer Andrei Frumusanu found that performance pretty much doubled since the phone’s original review, putting it inline or even better than other 765G handsets.