Mike Wuerthele
The Google Pixel phone officially revealed on Tuesday wasn't a well-kept a secret prior to release, and as a result there are a large number of benchmarks available. They show the phone's raw performance lags far behind that of the iPhone 7, and is even defeated in single-core performance by the iPhone 6s and iPhone SE.
Early benchmarks for the Pixel and Pixel XL phones in Geekbench 4 have come in at around 4100 for multiple core performance, and 1580 for single core, consistent with the earliest numbers claimed to be for the phone from mid-September.
In contrast, the Apple iPhone 7 link textmultiple core score is around 5600 regardless of model, with a single core score of around 3430.
For comparison, the iPhone 6s Plus has a multiple core benchmark of 4106, and a single core rating of 2508.
The processor in the Pixel XL is said to be running at the lower of the two speeds indicated by Google's technical specifications. However, the clock speed for the iPhone 7 was misidentified early on as well as a lower frequency than it actually peaks, so the benchmarks are thought to be accurate.
If the benchmarks are in fact measuring the slower of the two processors, a mathematical correction of the benchmarks in accordance with the faster processor still has the iPhone 7 beating the Pixel handily in both single and multiple core measurements.
While benchmarks aren't a perfect representation of day-to-day speed, nor do they measure user interface elements well, they are useful for comparison of the raw processing power between two pieces of computing hardware.
Both models of the Google Pixel revealed on Tuesday use a Snapdragon 821 CPU with two cores running at 2.15GHz, and two running at 1.6 GHz. The phone has 4 gigabytes of application RAM.
The Apple iPhone 7 series utilizes the A10 Fusion processor, with two high-performance cores, and two high-efficiency cores. The two high-performance cores run at 2.34GHz.
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Google just doesn't seem to get the fact -- despite repeated attempts and failures -- that hardware is a different ballgame altogether. You've got to manage up and down a huge value chain, all the way from dealing with suppliers, to logistics, to quality control, to shipping, to customer service, to dealing with returns, to etc etc. ("Those who don't remember the past..." and all that...). Apple has been doing this since the late '70s.
Cue another boring rerun. Yawn.
I'm waiting for The Verge to give this phone 9.7 rating.
With so much feedback on net from the perspective phone buyers, these pixel phones are DOA. Google proved again that It's not their forte. So, what's point of comparing these phones with any good phones out their and certainly disrespect to iphone 7..
I watched the keynote and it was cringey as hell.
"You're a virgin" was so pathetic I had to rewind and do a double take. I didn't think a ccompany this big would make such an immature teenager joke to seem cool and not nerdy.
They tried so hard to be Apple and even recycled phrases used at Apple keynotes. I laughed when they kept saying "ease-of-use is what Google has always been about". What a load of bull and this is their first phone supposedly so it doesn't make sense. (Nexus?)
Even fandroids are disappointed by the latest iPhone knockoff.
oh, and real world tests are going to destroy the little pixel if benchmarks or anything to go by. Apple is known for low benchmarks, high performance.