The Pixel6a delivers a lot for $450, including a flagship-graded Tensor chipset. But is it any good for gaming? We decided to find out.
The Google Pixel 6a has won laurels as one of the best budget phones available if you live in the U.S. market. For $450, it offers a standout design, a pair of reliable cameras, clean software, some neat exclusive tricks, and a whole lot of Tensor firepower.
When compared to more recent phones like the Galaxy S22 that rely on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the Tensor chip inside Pixel 6a is left far behind. Comparing it with the A15 Bionic at synthetic benchmarks yields a similar story. However, things change as you switch to more demanding games. From the get-go, I couldn’t help but notice that things felt sluggish. Games take longer to load, and the additional assets also take more time to install, even compared to Android mid-rangers like the Nothing Phone 1 powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+.
That becomes especially annoying if a game like Genshin Impact throws a massive 16GB installation package your way. Unpacking and installing even the heavy update packages take more time than it should for a processor that is as capable as the Tensor. Apex Legends turned out to be an exception, though. Frame drops were far and few, and I didn’t notice any serious stuttering even with the Frame rate set to Ultra and Dynamic Shadows enabled. As for the frame rate count, it remained at a stable 60 range throughout the test rounds.
Another issue is throttling. With 20 CPU threads active for 15 minutes straight, Tensor throttled to as low as 54% of its peak performance. In comparison, the Poco F4 – which technically features a two-year-old Qualcomm chip – never dipped below the 90% mark. Check out the CPU throttling graph of the Google Pixel 6a in the image above.
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