The Google Pixel 7 Pro completely disappointed in the real-world gaming test

While Google’s latest smartphones, Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro can boast incredibly impressive camerasit seems that phones lacking in some other respects— above all, performance. The Pixel 7 Pro has now gone through the Genshin Impact gaming test, with the flagship only managing to give a terrible account of itself.

As tested by Golden Reviewer, the Pixel 7 Pro fails to match even the 2021 flagships. Snapdragon 888 and somehow manages to be worse than Poco F3 with his Snapdragon 870. The Google flagship achieves an average frame rate of 37.2 FPS. Comparatively, the iPhone 14 Pro Max average 58.4 FPS, Xiaomi 12S Ultra 57.7 FPS, and Dimension 9000-powered Redmi K50 Pro 52.9 FPS. The aforementioned Poco F3? 46.5 FPS. The Tensor G2 is clearly the worst premium SoC of this generation in terms of gaming performance.

The Google Pixel 7 Pro doesn’t make up for that disappointing performance with great efficiency. The flagship still appears to offer worse efficiency figures than its peers. Unlike chipsets like Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that saw sudden drop in performance due to throttling, the Google Pixel 7 Pro and its Tensor G2 just, well, seem to be bad at gaming in all conditions, with frame rates dropping from 59 FPS to around 40 FPS just 30 seconds into the test. The verdict is clear: Google’s new Pixel 7 phones aren’t ideal for gaming. At least now.