The Pixel 3 was not beaten by Apple's iPhone XS during this speed test, it was demolished – BGR

I launched my thorough review of Pixel 3 by asking what exactly was Google's strategy with its Pixel phones. Google spends as much time and resources on developing its flagship phones as other major vendors. Still, Pixel's sales are still well below those of its competitors for several important reasons. Among them are the facts on which Google insists to conclude exclusive agreements with Verizon in the United States and that overall availability has been limited. For these reasons and more, Google sells fewer Pixel phones than Apple, in just one opening weekend.

I also questioned Google's Pixel phone launches schedule, which took place every October. Many have argued that Google's pixel gamut is intended to showcase the best that Android could offer, but that new phones are being marketed at the end of each treatment cycle. The Pixels 3 and Pixel 3 XL Google have just been launched with the chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, but the first phones with the new SoC 7nm Snapdragon 855 will be more than a few months. This time, however, things are worse than usual for two reasons. First, the world's second-largest smartphone provider, Huawei, has already released new phones with a powerful next-generation 7nm chip processor. Second, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL seem to suffer from a problem that seriously hampers performance.

At the first launch of the iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus and Apple iPhone 8 last year, they were immediately the most powerful smartphones on the planet. Every new iPhone instantly becomes the most powerful smartphone on the planet when it's released. As powerful as the new iPhones of last year, they were not the fastest smartphones on the market for the first three quarters of 2018, because iOS 11 had serious problems with RAM management, which was a problem. It seems now that something similar is happening with Google's new Pixel phones.

Rumors about Android blogs suggest that the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL suffer from memory management issues that slow down some features. Various evidence has been presented in the past to support this theory, but the best evidence to date has come in the form of a new speed test.

The "PhoneBuff" YouTube channel is one of many companies that produce real speed tests that show the difference between two phones in terms of speed during normal use. These tests are not scientific, but PhoneBuff has always been the best. In a word, a series of applications are successively opened on two different phones to see how fast they load, then they are all reopened in the same order for a second "turn" to see how fast they are recalled . Memory. After some preliminary results of speed tests released Monday by other YouTube users, PhoneBuff now shares the results of its own confrontation between the Pixel 3 XL and the iPhone XS Max.

We all know that Apple's new iPhones are more powerful than the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, but many people expected the results of these tests to be as close as those of other phones equipped with the Snapdragon chipset 845. Unfortunately, this is not the case at all. We usually try not to mess up the results of these tests, but in this case we can not do anything about it. The iPhone XS Max did not just beat Google's new Pixel 3 XL during the speed test, it completely swept the ground. In fact, the Apple iPhone has beaten the new Pixel phone by more than a minute, which is an incredible margin.

The Pixel 3 XL and iPhone XS Max align very well with the paper in terms of specifications. They both have 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage, display sizes and similar resolutions, and the latest versions of their respective operating systems. The similarities stop there, however, because the Pixel 3 XL is clearly not up to the Apple iPhone XS Max in terms of performance. You can consult the complete integrated speed test below.

Source of image: Zach Epstein, BGR