Pixel 11 vs. Pixel 11 Pro

The Pixel 11 models are present disposable and galore are already buying for their adjacent Google phone. If you are looking for a compact yet almighty flagship, it’s inevitable to inquire 1 question – should you get the Pixel 11 oregon the Pixel 11 Pro? At astir €900, the Google Pixel 11 seems to beryllium rather akin to the €,1100 Google Pixel 11 Pro. Is the terms premium worthy it then?

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro are so rather akin - the main differences are recovered successful the surface sheet and the camera sensors. Let's excavation successful and spot if there's much to it!

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For starters, you tin compare the implicit specs sheets oregon straight proceed with our editor's appraisal successful the pursuing text.

Size comparison

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro stock a communal basal and it’s truthful casual to tell. They look alike and if it weren’t for the antithetic colorways, the lone mode to admit them would beryllium the decorativeness – the Pixel 11 has a matte framework and glossy back, portion the Pixel 11 Pro has a glossy framework and frosted rear panel.

Since the vanilla exemplary uses a plainer anodized aluminum, it makes it grippier and that’s ever a plus.

Both phones usage Gorilla Glass Victus 2 panels and aluminum frame, some are IP68-rated for particulate and h2o resistance.

We similar the Pixel 11 for its somewhat lighter body, the fresher colors, and the amended grip. But we are definite determination volition beryllium plentifulness of users who would similar the mostly matte Pro exemplary and its classier paintjobs.

Display comparison

The archetypal and astir apt the astir important quality betwixt the 2 Pixels is the screen.

The Pixel 11 uses a 6.3-inch LTPS OLED sheet with 1080 x 2424 pixels, fixed 120Hz oregon 60Hz refresh rate, and HDR10+ support. The advertised brightness numbers are 2,000 nits for car and 3,000 nits for peak.

Then determination is the Pixel 11 Pro’s 6.3-inch LTPO OLED surface with higher pixel number - 1280 x 2856 , dynamic refresh complaint ranging from 1Hz to 120Hz, and HDR10+ support. Its authoritative brightness specs are 2,400 nits for car and 3,600 nits for peak.

The higher solution of the Pixel 11 Pro is surely not noticeable successful existent life. Then determination is the substance of the refresh complaint – portion the Pixel 11 Pro switches betwixt 1Hz – 120Hz connected the spell matching the framework complaint of the app, the Pixel 11 uses 120Hz erstwhile interacting with the surface and 60Hz for erstwhile idling.

Finally, erstwhile it comes to brightness – some panels are rather capable. We measured 2,134 nits for car and 2,842 nits for highest brightness connected the Pixel 11, vs. 2,333 nits for car and 3,118 nits for highest connected the Pixel 11 Pro.

Winner: Pixel 11 Pro, but determination isn't excessively overmuch successful it.

Battery life

The Pixel 11 is powered by a 4,985 mAh battery, portion the Pixel 11 Pro comes with a spot smaller 4,850mAh cell. Both phones usage the aforesaid chip, truthful the surface should beryllium the deciding origin for artillery life.

Well, it turned retired that some the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro connection perfectly identical artillery beingness with a precise bully Active Use Score of 15 hours and 40 minutes. They posted akin endurance times crossed each 4 tests.

Winner: Tie.

Charging speed

Wireless charging connected the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro 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, though, which is expected to boost the velocity successful the little artillery percentages. But it turned retired to beryllium rather a tiny boost, insignificant, immoderate mightiness say.

Anyway, some Pixels recharge astatine capable if unspectacular rates, reaching 30% of complaint successful 15mins, 60% successful 30mins, and 100% successful 80 mins.

Winner: Another tie.

Speaker test

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro person hybrid stereo talker systems, wherever the earpiece is pulling a treble duty.

It seems that some devices usage identical speakers arsenic they not lone scored a Good people connected our test, but they besides dependable arsenic nice.

Winner: Tie.

Performance

The full Pixel 11 bid runs connected Google's latest spot - Tensor G6. It's based connected the aforesaid 3nm manufacturing process arsenic the erstwhile Tensor G5 chip. With this caller model, Google promises amended ratio and a 50% summation successful AI computational power. It's based connected the aforesaid 3nm manufacturing process arsenic the erstwhile Tensor G5 chip, but omits 1 of the CPU cores.

The caller Tensor G6 employs a 7-core CPU. The configuration packs 1x4.1 GHz ARM C1-Ultra cores, 4x3.4 GHz ARM C1-Pro cores and 2x2.65 GHz ARM C1-Pro cores. All 7 cores are clocked importantly higher than before, though.

The GPU astatine manus is IMG CXTP-48-1536 by Imagination. Previously known arsenic PowerVR, Imagination's graphics chips are the proverbial underdogs successful the Android market. And portion Tensor G5 utilized a modern Series D GPU, the Tensor G6, for immoderate reason, goes for older Series C architecture, which has adjacent worse enactment crossed crippled developers and does not adjacent enactment ray tracing.

Memory-wise, the Pixel 11 is disposable successful 256GB and 512GB variants with some options having 12GB of RAM.

The Pixel 11 Pro has 3 retention options – 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. The 256GB variant is coupled with 12GB RAM, portion the higher-tier models usage 16GB RAM.

Benchmark performance

It’s not astonishing that 2 phones with the aforesaid spot people the aforesaid crossed benchmarks.

There is nary quality successful the sustained show either – some devices retained astir 60% of their CPU and 70% of their GPU theoretical powerfulness during our accent tests.

Winner:Another tie, arsenic expected.>

Camera comparison

The Pixel 11 gets a humble upgrade to its main camera and keeps the remainder of the hardware unchanged. The Pixel 11 Pro, meanwhile, is treated to a somewhat upgraded telephoto. Both phones diagnostic mostly akin camera systems successful rule - the wide superior camera has the largest sensor of the bunch, and there's an ultrawide connected 1 extremity and a 5x telephoto connected the different extremity of the zoom range.

Naturally, though, the Pro model's hardware is superior - each 4 modules are amended successful 1 oregon aggregate ways.

The main camera has a larger sensor (1/1.3" vs. 1/1.56"), the 1 connected the telephoto is some larger and higher-res (1/1.95" 50MP vs. 1/3.2" 10.9MP), and truthful excessively is the imager connected the ultrawide camera (1/2.51" 50MP vs. 1/3.1" 13MP).

It's akin with the selfie cameras - it's a 42MP sensor that's successful the whereabouts of 1/2.8" vs. a 10.5MP 1/3.2" unit.

OK then, but conscionable however overmuch amended are the photos from these superior cameras?

Image quality

Daylight

In daylight some Pixels instrumentality Pixel-y photos, truthful you tin number connected getting a akin wide look whether you're utilizing Pro oregon vanilla. Still, though, the plain 11 conscionable mightiness beryllium a small warmer than the 11 Pro, which is itself not strictly neutral - possibly that's the caller Pixel look. The 11 Pro does person an borderline successful sharpness - it's not a immense difference, but it's determination and it's consistent.

Daylight comparison, main camera (1x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

Neither telephone impresses astatine 2x - or, much accurately, some are beauteous meh. For what it's worth, they're connected a akin level of meh, which is benignant of a bully happening from the position of the cheaper vanilla 11.

Daylight comparison, main camera (2x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

The Pixel 11 captures good shots with its 5x telephoto, but those from the 11 Pro are sharper and person amended rendered good item - that's much oregon little a wide triumph for the higher-tier model.

Daylight comparison, telephoto camera (5x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

With that successful mind, it's lone earthy that the Pro wins and 10x arsenic good and that's so the case.

Daylight comparison, telephoto camera (10x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

The Pixel 11's ultrawide is incapable of focusing close, truthful adjacent subjects are bound to extremity up blurry - the AF connected the Pixel 11 Pro's ultrawide volition get you crisp results successful those situations. With distant subjects successful agleam conditions the 11 is astatine slightest arsenic bully arsenic the 11 Pro though, sometimes adjacent better.

Daylight comparison, ultrawide camera (0.5x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

Close-ups

On the Pixel 11 Pro you person nary evident bully mode for shooting closeups, with each of the rear cameras serving you a compromise of immoderate sort. With the Pixel 11, it's straightforward - the main camera, astatine 2x zoom, volition get you beauteous large prime and precise ample reproduction ratio.

Close-ups comparison): Pixel 11 (2x) • Pixel 11 Pro (2x) • Pixel 11 Pro (0.5x) • Pixel 11 Pro (UW, 1x)

Low light

In low-light, overmuch arsenic during the day, the Pixel 11 Pro's main camera volition get you amended item than that of the Pixel 11. The 11 is alright, yes, but the 11 Pro is mostly superior. The Pixel 11 did beryllium much reliably neutral successful its achromatic equilibrium than the Pro, though, astatine slightest successful thoroughfare lighting..

Low-light comparison, main camera (1x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

At 2x zoom, things get person to a tie, arsenic we saw successful the daytime results.

Low-light comparison, main camera (2x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

At 5x zoom, the 11 Pro has the precocious manus successful presumption of sharpness and detail, though it's a spot inconsistent with its achromatic balance, wherever the 11 conscionable mightiness person an advantage. That said, we'd astir apt take sharpness implicit implicit colour accuracy much often than not.

Low-light comparison, telephoto camera (5x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

At 10x, the Pixel 11 Pro continues to person the precocious hand, successful general, though connected juncture the 11 is keeping up amended than expected.

Low-light comparison, telephoto camera (10x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

The Pixel 11's ultrawide leaves a batch of sound unchecked, but its shots are inactive rather sharp, which isn't the lawsuit with the 11 Pro's images - the vanilla exemplary is doing amended here.

Low-light comparison, ultrawide camera (0.5x): Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

Selfies

The 2 phones instrumentality similar-looking selfies, but it's the Pixel 11 Pro that volition get you that other sum acknowledgment to its wider lens. Then again, the Pixel 11's lens is rather wide itself - wide enough we'd say. Both diagnostic AF too, truthful that's not truly a quality either. Oddly enough, the Pixel 11 does amended successful low-light than the 11 Pro.

Selfies comparison: Pixel 11 • Pixel 11 Pro

Video quality

Below we person a fewer framegrabs from the videos taken by the 2 phones astatine each focal magnitude truthful it's easier to comparison to 1 another.

The Pixel 11 tin grounds video up to 4K60 with the main and the telephoto camera connected the back, arsenic good arsenic the selfie camera, portion the ultrawide maxes retired astatine 4K30. The Pixel 11 Pro adds 4K60 connected the ultrawide and a cloud-based 8K mode connected each rear cameras.

In daytime scenarios, you'll extremity up with precise akin video prime from the 2 phones. We'd springiness the motion to the Pixel 11 Pro for its ever truthful flimsy sharpness vantage connected each 3 cameras, but the PIxel 11 is doing conscionable good itself and some are precise adjacent successful their planetary properties.

Daylight video screengrabs, Pixel 11: 0.5x • 1x • 2x • 5x • 10x

Daylight video screengrabs, Pixel 11 Pro: 0.5x • 1x • 2x • 5x • 10x

At night, it's a spot much of the same, astatine slightest connected the main camera and the telephoto - the Pro has a tiny vantage successful sharpness. On the ultrawides, prime is much oregon little the aforesaid and it's great.

Low-light video screengrabs, Pixel 11: 0.5x • 1x • 2x • 5x • 10x

Low-light video screengrabs, Pixel 11 Pro: 0.5x • 1x • 2x • 5x • 10x

Winner: Pixel 11 Pro gets the triumph present for amended telephoto camera and for each the tiny victories successful plentifulness of the scenes we shot.

Verdict

Both the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro turned retired to beryllium large compact smartphones. They connection identical builds, the aforesaid Tensor G6 chip, akin artillery beingness and charging capabilities, the aforesaid cleanable Android OS with each sorts of perks.

The Pixel 11 offers the premium Google acquisition astatine a little terms without losing thing meaningful.

On the different hand, the Pixel 11 Pro deserves its Pro moniker for its LTPO surface with higher solution and dynamic refresh rate, positive the higher-resolution camera sensors and the wide amended photograph and video quality. You besides get much RAM and storage, if you request it.

Overall, it each depends connected you needs, but unless you are nitpicking, the Pixel 11 would bash conscionable fine.