![]() The main camera uses the same 50MP sensor as you’ll find in the Samsung Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S22 Plus, as well as a number of previous iQoo models. That’s often one of the first features on the chopping block when putting together a more affordable flagship. We particularly appreciate the provision of a dedicated telephoto camera to accompany the wide and ultra-wide. That still makes it a decent photography tool however, and it does some things we like a lot. If the iQoo 11 is mixing it with the big boys in terms of power and display technology, then it steps back into the second tier with its camera offering. Slightly artificial but even tone across the three cameras.Same 50MP main camera sensor as Galaxy S22.This is a common concession on phones of all price ranges, but when a phone claims to be geared towards gamers it’s worth calling out. There’s stereo sound provided by a pair of speakers, but one is positioned on the bottom edge of the phone, and proves a little too easy to cover during landscape gaming. So too is a chin bezel that’s slightly thicker than the forehead, which is always a dead giveaway that a phone isn’t gunning for the elite league, regardless of what its spec sheet might say. The lack of an IP rating – meaning no official water resistance – is a bit of a downer, and one sign that we’re not dealing with an out and out flagship phone here. We found it very easy to live with, and that vegan leather has proved both grippy and mercifully non-freezing-to-the-touch when taken out on cold days. This isn’t a small phone at 8.7mm thick and 205g, but nor is it distractingly hefty. Presumably this was where the phone made contact with whatever surface it was laying on, but it started to give the phone a somewhat scruffy edge after just a week or two of usage. TL DR: Pixel 8 will likely perform better than the Pixel 7, as to be expected.One negative point we did notice towards the end of our time with the phone was that the black paint coating the thin metal frame surrounding the camera module had begun to scratch off along the bottom edge. On top of that, understand that Google can tweak clock speeds and change performance to help boost benchmark numbers ahead of the Pixel 8’s launch, so I wouldn’t put much stock in early benchmark scores. They are great for knowing which chipset can get you potentially the best results, but in 2023, when essentially every phone is overpowered for what the typical user is doing, it becomes mind numbingly dull and pointless. They can hardly ever paint a real-world picture of usage and performance, as there are limitless factors in play when it comes to how your specific device performs. Benchmark scores are, for lack of a better term, dumb. Why does this matter? Technically, it doesn’t right now and may not ever matter (to you). Again for context, the Galaxy S23 Ultra features the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, clocking in a single-core score of 1581 and multi-core of 5125. Last year’s Tensor G2 had scores of around 1045 (single core) and 3327 (multi-core). ![]() In a GeekBench 5 score, where a higher number means better the score, the Tensor G3 came in with a single-core score of 1186 and multi-core score of 3809. Disclaimer: No one ever said it would compete with those two, I’m just providing examples of what the G3 apparently can’t touch. Yesterday on Twitter, a supposed benchmark for the G3 popped up, and while it does perform higher than the original Tensor (gs101) and Tensor G2 (gs201), it still doesn’t touch the performance of something like the Apple-made A16 Bionic or Qualcomm-made Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. What all of this should result in for end users is snappier performance across the board. On top of the new layout, Google is upping the frequency (clock speed) with the little cores, mid cores, and big core. The majority of the layout is 2022-launched ARMv9 cores, meaning the Tensor G3 (Zuma) is much more up-to-date versus what we saw with the Tensor G2 and original Tensor. Set to power the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, Google is reworking the Tensor G3 entirely, switching from a 4+2+2 core layout to a 4+4+1: four little Cortex-A510s, four Cortex-A715s, and a single Cortex-X3. If the latest leak holds up to be true, it sounds like Google is continuing to move in a positive direction with its mobile processor, albeit without the hugest of steps. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series were snappy enough for the average bear, but if benchmarked against other mobile silicon on the market, they don’t quite stack up the same. The first two in-house designed Google chipsets, the Tensor and Tensor G2, had fine performance.
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