India, Aug. 25 -- The Pixel 11 cannot catch the iPhone 17 for outright performance, but Tensor G6 makes the three-way comparison interesting once CPU scaling and sustained graphics performance enter the picture.

I wanted to see where the Pixel 11 and Tensor G6 really stand when the numbers are lined up against the iPhone 17 and vivo X300 FE. Geekbench 6 and 3DMark give us two different views of the same hardware. The results are mixed. Apple remains comfortably ahead, vivo gets remarkably close to the Pixel in multi-core performance, and Tensor G6 becomes more interesting once sustained graphics load starts building.

The Pixel 11 uses Google's Tensor G6, which Geekbench identifies as a seven-core processor. It combines two cores at 2.65...