The Google Pixel 7 Pro has now been put through a Genshin Impact gaming test in an attempt to see just how well Google's Tensor G2 chip performs. Results are damning, and pose the new Pixel 7 phones as inadequate for gaming purposes.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-Pixel-7-Pro-utterly-disappoints-in-a-real-world-gaming-test.662355.0.html
They release an update to make it better but TBH, I do not mind in the slightest.
I am luckily in the demographic of players that do not like slot machines and prefer to play on PC, Deck or Switch.
If I'd want a gaming phone I'll buy a razr phone at the price of an iphone. But I prefer buying a pixel at 600$ and get the 200$ pixel buds (which make the phone a 400$ phone). And then have a phone with better camera which is also smarter and with a better ui and use the 400$ extra to buy a switch pro or a steam deck to have better performance. Since heavy gaming on a phone makes no sense as it burns battery. If I want to game on the go I'll just use a console... But again if I'm desperate to play angry birds at 32k res, or codmw with auto-aim then I can also use the RAZR.
You don't buy a Google phone for gaming. You buy a Google phone for the camera and AI convinces. If you want a gaming phone, you buy the Asus ROG phone.
Most who buys the Pixel 7 Pro are not looking to game. They are looking for that pure Android experience that can't be had anywhere else at this level. It's optimization, speed and camera are on par, sometimes better, for daily activities when compared to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. All this and more at a significantly lower price than its competitor. Designed with AI in mind, it's far ahead exactly where Google aimed their sights and gives the people what they are asking for. I enjoying gaming, but on my custom built PC or Switch is where I will worry about gaming, not on my phone.
Didn't get the 7 Pro for games, have never installed a game on any of my phones.
So far, moving up from the Pixel 5a I'm very happy.
I agree,people don't buy pixel phones for games, we buy them for how helpful they are and for day to day tasks. I have a Gamepass, Playstation 5, PC, and switch, I don't need to game on my phone. That's just dumb...
Real gamers use a PC not some little screen you have to squint at!
This may or may not be true but how can anyone take this test seriously when they say the test resolution is different between devices?
Did they include a headphone jack? No? Never mind then.
Poco F3 is a 1080p screen, bring this out is a bit misleading.
People that are true mobile gamers and joining competitions get a gaming focused phone that is absolutely trash at all the things Pixels are good at. Google developed Pixels to be the best camera and AI phones. They play games well enough to enjoy but that's not the point and I hope never to be!
Photos, photo editing, text to speech, assistant, and machine learning are all the areas Pixels excel in far better than any phone out there on top of that it's a pure Android experience to boot!
I hate articles like these that ignore this and are just trying to trash Google and Pixels and are just click baiting for views and ad $$....shame on you notebookchat 👎🏻
Who buys a Pixel for gaming? It's like buying a Mac for gaming. It's like buying a Surface laptop to game on it. Can you game on it? Yes. Is it the best for gaming? Heck no.
I hate these type of articles that go out of their way to bash a product on a category that the product isn't meant for. I wouldn't buy a gaming phone and try to grade its cameras against a Pixel, Xperia, Xiaomi, Vivo, Samsung or Apple. We all know it's gonna lose on that. But that's not why you buy a gaming phone, and this is not why anyone would buy a Pixel.
Who buys 1k$ phone for camera and "AI"?
Reddit post from other real life game testing with genshin impact says otherwise
Most absurd article and some of the comments Ive come across in a long time. Gaming snobs and this article are wrong, it's fine for mobile gaming. I have a mid range phone and play many mobile games just fine. As an aside I also play on PC and consoles, gaming is the point not snobbery. Which is all I see in this article. This is for those that need the so called latest and best for some reason. Planned obsolescence is the driver here.
It's not a gaming phone dummy
Quote from: Fartion on October 16, 2022, 22:46:07Who buys 1k$ phone for camera and "AI"?
why would you spend $1k on a phone for gaming when a switch will do a better job of it?
I jest, but your question begs a bunch of dumb responses, because it's a dumb question.
I'm ashamed to own a Pixel after seeing all the angry fanboys raging in the comments. The 7 Pro does not play games too well. Did reading that make you mad? Reevaluate your life until this point. It's a phone, not your way of life.
Ugh...
At least mention that these are ONSCREEN numbers... thus not comparable between devices unless they are running at the same resolution.
Based on the comments it seems you didn't fool many people, and hopefully they'll, like me, reconsider coming to this site for such "news".
What kind of idiot would buy a Pixel phone for gaming? If the Pixel annoys the plebs who use phones for gaming, then that's a big win for me.
Now excuse me - I'd like to complain about how crappy my PS5 is at taking photos.
A mobile phone should able multitask do everything 37 fps vs apple iPhone 59fps and Asus rog 6 mobile 80fps is really shocking mobile gaming is not in same league has PC or console different platform if you're traveling you can't take either out or about so many silly arguments
Hilarious to see the lookalike comments here. I'm guessing the average age hovers around 50.
Who uses a phone to play video games? How important is it to the market?
Well, if you knew what Genshin Impact is, you'd know the answers are "a gigantic amount of people play video games on their phone" and "performance playing video games, ESPECIALLY this particular video game, is extremely important to the phone market".
We all buy a flagship phones for different reasons. Gaming is bottom of my list, in fact it doesn't make the list.
I've been very impressed with Pixel 7 Pro so far, in particular the camera, like all pixel phones I've owned, its fantastic! And that's what I'm looking for.
I love my Google Pixels. I've now had the 3XL, 5, 6 Pro, and 7 Pro. I didn't buy them for gaming which it can do OK but that's not the main draw to the Pixel line. If you value photography, fast updates, and plain Android...this is your smartphone. Good luck with that on your gaming smartphone because it isn't happening.
Pointless article...
This article makes no sense, why would you buy a pixel 7 for gaming, i have always owned a pixel phone and never had an issue even playing games, i mean what are you playing big power hungry 3d games, that phone just came out why would you bash it so bad, you probably have a fruit phone or a galaxy phone, how about the pixel is a clean phone with no bloatware a pure android experience
Seriously people play Mobile games? I have yet to find one that isn't a complete pay to win scam. Buy a steam deck or a Switch and be done with it.
Google aren't targeting gamers on the new pixel 7. The chip, whilst isn't impressive considering performance, is sufficient and excels in some other aspects compared to other phones like speech recognition and image processing. They also have great software to support the hardware.
This is only the 2nd generation of tensor processors and considering that this is their own in house produced processors it's pretty impressive that its beating exynos which has been around much longer.
Let's just hope the tensor chips become more competitive in the future, and when I say that I mean on the levels of apple processors (efficiency/performance wise) considering the size of Google as a company.
If you game on your phone that's great, but most people that buy this phone are not interested in gaming on it.
Notebookcheck used come out with actual engineering spec articles that were useful to read. This article shows their decline in a spotlight.
Gaming. Nope
The premise of this article is retarded
"The Pixel 7 pro is so good with all the specs I need, I love the new look and colors of the phone, also the 7 Pro specs are great! The QHD+ LTPO OLED 120 Hz Display made with Gorilla Glass Victus is what I expected in this phone, this display is so great with colors, black level, and HDR! I've had no eye strain after using this phone for 2 days and the 6.7-inch phone suits my hands! The 5000 mAh Battery is the best for a high-end phone that uses more high processor to run so it would run all day without draining out soon! 12 GB RAM is not even on my PC which is so huge but is this real, cause iPhones only have 4-6 GB ram and give a good performance than other phones? This phone is very smooth to use even when gaming it is not getting heated up because of the RAM and processor! I like the triple camera which looks wired but cool, a 50 MP wide camera, a 12 MP ultrawide camera, and a 48 MP telephoto camera which gives out the best quality images that are so natural! I use a pixel camera on my old Redmi device it gives out great images that have no fake layers of sharpening and whites. Overall this phone is great but does have cons which all the phone does, software bugs, fingerprint sensors, and battery life which is not good but they can be enhanced with future updates!
As I was searching for many cases for my Pixel 7 Pro, they all looked the same and made the phone bulky to use so I got this 3m skin from Gadgetshieldz which can self-heal the scratches and stick well and love the new look!"
I am more interested in thermals, battery, bugs and call reception/data speed. Gaming is only should be done on a PC, where you can put your coffee and smoke a joint.