Last year, the Pixel 10 delivered less-than-stellar artillery beingness results from its 4,970mAh artillery – this was the archetypal procreation with Tensor chipsets fabbed by TSMC, so, clearly, determination were immoderate teething issues.
It’s a twelvemonth aboriginal and we’re putting the Google Pixel 11 done the aforesaid artillery and charging tests. Google kept artillery capableness fundamentally the aforesaid astatine 4,985mAh, but it optimized the remainder of the hardware to trim powerfulness draw. Let’s find retired whether it was successful.
Indeed it was! With an Active Use Score of 15:40h, the Pixel 11 near its predecessor successful the particulate – the 2025 vanilla telephone lone scored 12:08h. Crucially, the Pixel matched its cardinal rivals – this includes the Pixel 11 Pro, the Galaxy S26 and the iPhone 17.
Gaming remains a anemic trial for the Pixels adjacent with the latest Tensor G6. The culprit is the IMG CXTP-48-1536 GPU from Imagination, which struggles to lucifer the Apple-designed GPU wrong the iPhones, the AMD-based GPU wrong the Galaxy S26 (we tested the Exynos 2600 version) and the Arm GPUs utilized by MediaTek.
That is lone successful presumption of performance, though. As you tin see, Google and Imagination importantly improved the powerfulness efficiency, and the gaming artillery beingness trial present matches the Galaxys and the iPhones. You mightiness get worse framework rates astatine max graphics settings, truthful we inactive wouldn’t urge a Pixel 11 to gamers. That said, the telephone is good for casual play arsenic astir mobile games aren’t that demanding and you’ll beryllium getting artillery beingness comparable to Apple and Samsung phones.
The bully quality is that determination is nary idiosyncratic trial that stands retired arsenic bad. This is successful opposition with the Pixel 10 – look astatine its gaming people of lone 5:47h, portion the Pixel 11 scored astir 4 hours higher. The video trial besides shows a important betterment for the caller Pixel 11 model.
Charging velocity test
Wireless charging connected the Pixel 11 has received a boost to 25W this year, but wired charging hasn't budged from the max 30W rating.
Google introduced a caller Extreme mode for wired charging with the Pixel 11 series. We tested it, and we’ll archer you close present that it doesn’t truly merit that boastful term.
Still, with Extreme Charging ON, we bash spot a speed-up from the Pixel 10 generation, and it is wide not acold down phones similar the Galaxy S26 and iPhone 17, some of which are beauteous blimpish erstwhile it comes to charging power. We tin perceive you shouting astir your favourite Chinese brands, but Google sells Pixels lone successful a constricted fig of countries and those markets thin towards Samsung and Apple. Brands similar Oppo and Xiaomi aren’t adjacent disposable successful the US and Canada, truthful that’s wherefore we’re focusing connected Galaxy and iPhone comparisons.
Before we continue, we request to explicate what you request to alteration Extreme Charging mode. It fundamentally has the aforesaid requirements arsenic the regular mode, it conscionable uses a somewhat much assertive charging curve. Specifically, you request an adapter that tin present 11V and 3A to get the fastest complaint times.
Most 30W chargers won't present the maximum powerfulness that the telephone is rated to instrumentality but thing astir 33W should beryllium bully enough. Most 45W adapters we checked had the close powerfulness ratings, truthful you tin prime 1 conscionable to beryllium connected the harmless side. Google’s 45W USB-C Power Charger ($30) supports up to 16V astatine 3A. Note that we utilized Google’s 67W dual-port adapter ($60) for this test, but that’s overkill – adjacent the 45W exemplary tin present maximum powerfulness to the Pixel 11 Pro XL, which has higher requirements.
Whether you spell for a Google charger oregon a third-party one, you volition person to proviso your own, arsenic Google lone includes a USB-C to USB-C cablegram with the retail package. The bully quality is that you lone request a 3A cable, truthful you tin usage mostly immoderate cable; you don’t request a pricier 5A cablegram (those necessitate E-Marker chips).
Alright, we tin yet speech astir the results. As mentioned above, neither Samsung nor Apple are fans of precocious complaint rates and it shows – astatine the 15 infinitesimal mark, the iPhone 17 and Galaxy S26 propulsion ahead, but they person smaller batteries. And astatine the 30 infinitesimal mark, the Pixel 11 starts to adjacent the gap, anyway.
A afloat complaint for the Pixel 11 takes 1 hr and 20 minutes (give oregon take). That’s a little better, but we wouldn’t telephone it “Extreme”. Still, it’s competitory with the others, being beaten lone by the Galaxy S26, whose artillery is 685mAh smaller.
In summary, Google did fantabulous enactment connected improving artillery ratio – what we would similar to spot adjacent twelvemonth is simply a amended GPU and a Si/C battery. But arsenic it stands today, the Pixel 11 matches the Galaxy S26 and iPhone 17 successful presumption of artillery life.
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