 Hey guys, Thundee here and welcome to my gaming review of the Pixel 8 Pro. I'm here in a lovely Barcelona and I've taken some time to give you a gaming video of this device. Now this is the latest Pixel device from Google and I do have the Bay color here which looks really nice. Now the one thing I want to mention on the Pixel is the display. Let's start off with that. This is a display with two 2400 nits brightness, super bright display whether it's outdoors or indoors you're going to get some really nice colors on this display and yes I will put that superman wallpaper for you guys for those who are looking for this. But back to gaming on this device. Now we have a device here that in terms of display it's got a refresh rate of 120 Hertz. From 60 to 120 with the adaptive refresh rate but of course gaming will be at 120 Hertz. Now this is powered by the Tensor G3 processor, it's the latest in the Tensor line. Looking at benchmarks starting off with Gigbench 6, we've got a single core score of 1733, multi core score of 3758, now how does it stack up against the iPhone, 15 Pro Max and the Galaxy S23 Ultra, both scores are lower and it's actually a bigger gap with the multi core scores for both devices with at least a 2000 gap and almost a 4000 gap with the iPhone. So you can clearly see that there's some work but it's still a huge improvement especially on the single core scores. Now when we go to GPU benchmark scores here for the Pixel 8 Pro, what do we get? Well we have a score of 4864 which is a huge gap in OpenCL scores compared to the Galaxy at over 9000 and the iPhone of course is marked differently of course because it uses metal at 27000 but this might be an indication of what heavy GPU use might look like with the Pixel 8 Pro. Now when we look at 3D Max scores here, we do have an overall score of 2329 and you can see how it stacks up against other devices and against the Galaxy S23 Ultra, it is only better than 1% of Galaxy S23 devices overall so that score is pretty low but you know what? Let's decide by looking at some of the games we have to play and we'll be recording those benchmarks using the built in game dashboard with the Pixel 8 Pro which allows you to see your FPS on screen because my gamebench doesn't actually work with Android 14 yet at this point. So let's jump into some of the games we would expect. Starting off with Call of Duty Mobile, this is the first time I was able to play on the highest settings for Call of Duty Mobile Ultra, Medium and this was great to see because I was able to get a solid fresh 118-120 FPS on there, gameplay was really smooth, felt very comfortable and it felt really nice gaming on this device so we got that really smooth frame rate and it was good to see that a game like Call of Duty Mobile had such nice clean gameplay on the Pixel 8 Pro. Now moving over to PUBG Mobile, it's a game a lot of people play all around the world and I want to check two of the main settings on there, so there's Ultra HD Ultra which is of course a high graphic intensive setting for PUBG Mobile and this is standard across the board, we're getting 40 frames per second which is similar to what you have on your Galaxy S23 Ultra and the iPhone 15 Pro Max in terms of at least just the benchmarks there, so really nice clean performance on there. Now when we move over to Extreme HDR, we also got some really nice frame rates, we saw it go at 60 frames per second, it might have moved slightly higher than 16 certain situations but it did a really good job. Now in terms of performance here, we've seen some really solid performance, what about temperatures? Now let's go back to Call of Duty Mobile, well we're playing Call of Duty Mobile, I noticed that it was running a little bit warm, our temps were running between 99 to 101 degrees Fahrenheit which is about 36 to 37 degrees Celsius roughly and then with PUBG Mobile we're getting roughly around the same again between 100 to 101 and then of course 36 to 37 in terms of Celsius range. So that's temperatures there, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying that's what I noticed with this device. Now before we get to PUBG Mobile and the temperatures there, let's take a listen to audio off this, especially gaming audio, playing some of these games and also just music off the Pixel 8 Pro. So I think that actually sounded pretty good, I'm not sure how loud it is in terms of comparison to other devices, I've got this really high ceiling room, it's about maybe 18 feet high, so that still did a good job in a space and environment like this. Now moving over to PUBG Mobile, we're able to play PUBG Mobile at its max setting, of course playing with the Tenser G3 and this is where the Tenser fails yet again. So with PUBG Mobile, we'll add the max setting, 60 frames per second, as soon as you start playing it drops down, it dropped down to about 28 frames, that was the lowest I got, and then it moved back up to the mid-40s. Now when you're stationary and not in any active action environments, you can get 56 frames per second, obviously there's less particles or release particulates around the scene, then you can get about close to about 50 to 54 frames per second. But on average, while gaming and while fighting enemies, I was getting between about 38 to about 42 frames per second. So not solid, especially while starting off the game. What we do notice is that when you're playing Genshin Impact on other SOCs like the Snapdragon HN2 series or the Dimensity 9200 or even the Abionic chipsets from Apple, it starts off strong at 60 frames per second and then it gradually goes down to around the mid to high 40s, that's what we usually get. Now when it comes to this device, it's the opposite, it starts off at the low 20s and then kind of goes all the way up to about the mid 40s. Now when it comes to temperatures on this device playing Genshin Impact, this is where we see temperatures rise. So it got up to about 108 degrees Fahrenheit or about roughly 42 degrees Celsius while playing for roughly around 30 minutes of gameplay. And this is because of course it can't handle the higher 60 frames per second. So it's working much harder and we still get in lower frame rates. Now when it comes to gaming overall on this device, I think you are getting solid performance all around whether you're playing your regular Android games. But remember Genshin, you do want to play at 30 frames per second in terms of settings. I think this is pretty solid and it's better improvements. We still not seeing the improvements when it comes to Genshin. So I hope that changes as it moves forward. I know this is not a focus that Google tends to point out because they didn't talk about gaming on the press conference for the Pixel 8 Pro, but it is still a solid performance. And also for those of you are asking about your game streaming services, it works well, of course, as long as you have a good wireless connection. I wasn't able to set up emulators. I didn't have time because I was traveling and I am still traveling at this point in time. But let me know what else you would like to see from this device. I'll be doing a camera comparison coming up against the iPhone 15 Pro Max. There's some really interesting images as I go around Barcelona to see what is just around the place here. It's a fun city and honestly, if you guys have any questions or any comments, let me know if you want to see more from the Pixel 8 Pro. Leave your thoughts down below. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always be very entertained.