The OnePlus 10T is priced on par with the Pixel 6, skips the zoom camera just like Google’s phone, and features a snappy and barebones Android interface, again like, you guessed it, the Pixel 6.
That’s why we’re pitting the new OnePlus 10T against the “old” Google Pixel 6 to help you choose which one to get ahead of its September release date here in the US based on performance benchmarks for camera, display and processor .
OnePlus 10T vs Google Pixel 6, the main differences:
- Take up fast 150W wired charging on the OnePlus 10T, but no wireless charging
- The smaller Pixel 6 display has better color representation but a lower refresh rate
- The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset is faster than Google’s Tensor 1 and offers better 5G connectivity
- The OnePlus 10 has twice the RAM and base storage of the Pixel 6
- Two color options vs. three
- 50MP cameras, but Google is still the boss of mobile photography
Design and display quality
The OnePlus 10T is undoubtedly the sleeker phone at the front, due to the thinner display bezels and boxy Pixel 6 appearance. On the back, however, it’s an interplay between the OnePlus camera island fused to the side bezel and the Pixel 6’s unorthodox camera “strip”.
The Pixel’s design is a little more comfortable to hold and use with one hand, not only because it’s more compact, but also because the raised camera strip serves as a great place to press your index finger against it. The OnePlus 10T’s increased camera section includes three cameras and a flash, while the Google strip has two and a flash, resulting in a rather bare appearance in comparison.
The 10T has two color options – Moonstone Black and Jade Green – which are achieved through the use of a glass back, despite the drastic differences in texture and appearance. The Pixel 6, by comparison, offers three color variants – Kinda Coral, Sorta Seafoam, and Stormy Black – and again offers a glass back with a wireless charging coil inside, unlike the OnePlus 8T, which only charges with the monstrous 150W brick.
To sue
When it comes to displaying colors, we have to give way to Google and its Pixel range. While phones from the BBK Holding, like those from Oppo or OnePlus, offer a rare per-unit factory calibration on the high-end models for the widest possible coverage of the wide color space, Google’s Pixels have a perfect display calibration even towards the mid-range currently occupied the Pixel6.
The Pixel 6, on the other hand, has one of the lowest deltas we’ve measured, near-perfect white balance, and brightness on par with the OnePlus 10T, as if to counterbalance the OnePlus phone’s higher refresh rate.
performance and software
The Pixel 6 runs on Google’s own Tensor processor, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of base storage. While both phones run their lightweight Android interfaces well, the OnePlus 10T runs the most powerful Android chipset currently available, giving Google’s Tensor a hard time catching up, especially when it comes to gaming or 5G connectivity, where Qualcomm doesn’t have anything to say about it equal bands and filters support.
But let’s take a look at the raw data from our performance benchmarks and let them speak for themselves, especially in the area of 3D graphics rendering, which is important if you play a lot of games on your phone. Here the 10T easily outperforms the Pixel 6:
camera
The OnePlus 10T has a large but aesthetically pleasing rear camera island that houses three sensor and lens combinations, only one of which makes sense, the 50-megapixel main camera with the Sony sensor. The 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro cameras are compromises and seem to be there for the count.
With the Pixel 6’s 50MP sensor on the main camera and the ultrawide’s 12MP sensor, can Google match it against the newer OnePlus 10T? It can, and much more, as you can see from the following examples.
The popular OnePlus camera algorithms produce overly warm, yellowish images with unnatural contrast enhancement. Photos lose some detail in the process, while both indoors and outdoors the Pixel 6 not only captures very realistic, true-to-life colors, but also captures more detail and images are less blurry without over-sharpening, and the same goes for the 4K sample videos from the two phones below.
audio quality
Both the OnePlus 10T and Pixel 6 list “dual stereo speakers” among their perks, but it’s a single speaker that’s augmented by using the earbud as the other to keep the stereo sound off-balance. The audio from either phone won’t rock your socks, especially in the lows and mids, but they’re both loud enough to annoy people on your morning commute.
It’s also worth noting that the phones don’t have a headphone jack, so you’d have to pick your poison from USB-C headphones or wireless headphones if you don’t want to use the “stereo speakers”.
Battery life and charging
The added value of the OnePlus 10T is its 150W charging system, which pumps its 4800mAh dual-cell battery full of electrons for less than 20 minutes. We measured 23 minutes to be precise, but that was from a fully depleted state, not the 1% OnePlus measures.
There’s no wireless charging like the Pixel 6, but the ultra-fast wiring and inclusion of the 150W brick in the box more than makes up for it. In short, both battery life and charging laps go to the OnePlus 10T here.
specification comparison
| specifications | OnePlus 10T | Google Pixel 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Dimensions | 163mm x 75.37mm x 8.75mm | 158.6 x 74.8 x 8.9 mm (6.24 x 2.94 x 0.35 in) |
| weight | 203.5 grams | 207.0 g (7.30 ounces) |
| Screen | 6.7 inch, AMOLED 2412 x 1080 resolution (394 pixels per inch) 120Hz refresh rate HDR10+ |
6.4 inch, AMOLED 2400 x 1080 resolution, (390 pixels per inch) 90Hz refresh rate HDR10+ |
| processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 | Google tensor 1 |
| R.A.M. | 8GB / 12GB / 16GB | 8GB |
| reversing cameras | 50MP Main (with OIS) 8 MP ultra wide 2MP macro |
50MP Main (with OIS) 12 MP ultra wide |
| Front camera | 16MP | 8MP front |
| battery size | 4,800mAh | 4,614mAh |
| loading speeds | 150W (wired) No wireless charging (150W charger included) |
30W (wired) 15W (wireless) (No charger included) |
| Price | $649 for the 8GB RAM / 128GB storage variant $749 for the 16GB RAM / 256GB storage variant |
$599 for the 8GB RAM / 128GB storage variant |
Conclusion: OnePlus 10T or Pixel 6, which one to buy?
While the specs of the OnePlus 10T and Google Pixel 6 are pretty similar, as to be expected in their respective price ranges, the newer phone is definitely the faster one with its Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and 20-minute charge speeds. When it comes to photography, however, the Pixel 6 has the upper hand, although both have 50MP main cameras.
In other words, if gaming performance, record-breaking charging speeds, and a larger display with smoother refresh rates are more important to you than better dynamic range or nighttime colors in your photos and wireless charging, opt for the OnePlus 10T, available to order now, with a free storage upgrade for Boot.
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