OnePlus Nord 4 vs Google Pixel 9a
71
out of 100
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67
out of 100
Here we compared two mid-range smartphones: the 6.74-inch OnePlus Nord 4 (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3) that was released on July 16, 2024, against the Google Pixel 9a, which is powered by Google Tensor G4 and came out 8 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the OnePlus Nord 4
- Shows 39% longer battery life (28:03 vs 20:15 hours)
- Supports higher wattage charging (100W versus 23W)
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
- Has a 0.44 inch larger screen size
- 25% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1645K versus 1321K)
- Has 2 SIM card slots
- Thinner bezels – 5.2% more screen real estate
- Faster storage type - UFS 4.0 versus UFS 3.1
- 11% faster in single-core GeekBench 6 test: 1860 and 1677 points
- Has a built-in infrared port
Reasons to consider the Google Pixel 9a
- Delivers 66% higher peak brightness (1927 against 1158 nits)
- Handles wireless charging up to 7.5W
- Waterproof body (IP68 classification)
- More recent OS version: Android 17 versus 14
- The phone is 8 months newer
- The front-facing camera can record video at 4K
- Ready for eSIM technology
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | AMOLED | POLED |
| Size | 6.74 inches | 6.3 inches |
| Resolution | 1240 x 2772 pixels | 1080 x 2424 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 20.1:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 450 ppi | 422 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (60-120 Hz) | Yes (60-120 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 2150 nits | 2700 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | - | 1800 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, HDR10+ |
| Touch sampling rate | 240 Hz | - |
| Screen protection | Tempered glass | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 89.7% | 84.5% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display |
| RGB color space | 95.7% | 98.2% |
| PWM | 119 Hz | 240 Hz |
| Response time | 6 ms | 1 ms |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | ∞ Infinity |
Screen space comparison
Nord 4
6.74″ (20.1:9 ratio) = 16.9 in2
Pixel 9a
6.3″ (20:9 ratio) = 14.9 in2
~14% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 162.6 mm (6.4 inches) | 154.7 mm (6.09 inches) |
| Width | 75 mm (2.95 inches) | 73.3 mm (2.89 inches) |
| Thickness | 7.99 mm (0.31 inches) | 8.9 mm (0.35 inches) |
| Weight | 199.5 g (7.04 oz) | 186 g (6.56 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP65 | IP68 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | Vapor chamber |
| Rear material | Metal | Plastic |
| Frame material | Metal | Metal |
| Colors | Black, Silver, Green | White, Black, Red, Purple |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
| Repairability | - | Good (3.53/5) |
| Drop resistance | - | Excellent (A) · 270 drops |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 | Google Tensor G4 |
| Max clock | 2800 MHz | 3100 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 4 + 3) | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) |
| Architecture | - 3 cores at 1.9 GHz: Cortex-A520 - 4 cores at 2.6 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 1 core at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
- 4 cores at 1.92 GHz: Cortex-A520 - 3 cores at 2.6 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 1 core at 3.1 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | Yes |
| Graphics | Adreno 732 | Mali-G715 MP7 |
| GPU shading units | 768 | 896 |
| GPU clock | 950 MHz | 940 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~1459.2 GFLOPS | ~1684.4 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 8062 | 7784 |
| Single-core score | 1860 | 1677 |
| Multi-core score | 5045 | 4067 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 541591 | 445318 |
| GPU | 419629 | 410687 |
| Memory | 280425 | 175537 |
| UX | 403928 | 289527 |
| Total score | 1645573 | 1321069 |
| Samples | [25 tests] | [7 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 72% | 81% |
| Graphics test | 7 FPS | 8 FPS |
| Graphics score | 975 | 1060 |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 15100 | 10570 |
| Video editing | 7192 | 7547 |
| Photo editing | 20289 | 21264 |
| Data manipulation | 14511 | 12988 |
| Writing score | 14475 | 16308 |
Recent User Tests
OnePlus Nord 4
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-21 -> Keval Patel | AnTuTu 11 | 1717378 |
| 📘 2026-09-21 (Keval) | AnTuTu 11 | 1656748 |
| 📘 2026-05-13 (Akash) | AnTuTu 11 | 1663978 |
| 📘 2026-04-11 (One) | AnTuTu 11 | 1796634 |
| 📘 2026-04-08 -> jchanich | AnTuTu 11 | 1719478 |
Google Pixel 9a
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-21 (Leif) | AnTuTu 11 | 1590049 |
| 📘 2026-05-13 (kiriguap) | AnTuTu 11 | 1182042 |
| 📘 2026-03-09 (d1ldo) | AnTuTu 11 | 943849 |
| 📘 2026-01-03 (Joy) | AnTuTu 11 | 1487240 |
| 📘 2025-11-11 (VLAD) | AnTuTu 11 | 1507185 |
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory clock | 4200 MHz | 4200 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Storage size | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 3.1 |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 14 | Android 15 (Can be upgraded to Android 17) |
| ROM | OxygenOS 14.1 | Stock Android |
| OS size | 17 GB | 14 GB |
| OS updates | 4 years | 7 years |
| Security updates | 6 years | 7 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 5500 mAh | 5100 mAh |
| Max charge power | 100 W | 23 W |
| Battery type | Li-Po | Li-Po |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | No | Yes (7.5 W) |
| Reverse charging | No | No |
| Bypass charging | - | No |
| Fast charging | Yes (60% in 15 min) | Yes (47% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 0:28 hr | 1:41 hr |
| Battery cycles | - | 1000 cycles |
| Web browsing | 15:37 hr | 08:20 hr |
| Watching video | 14:05 hr | 12:40 hr |
| Gaming | 06:45 hr | 06:06 hr |
| Standby | 113 hr | 91 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#90th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 48 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 8000 x 6000 |
| Zoom | Digital | Digital |
| Flash | Dual LED | Dual LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | No | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 240 FPS (720p) | 240 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 112° | 120° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Ultrawide: 8 MP |
1) Standard: 48 MP 2) Ultrawide: 13 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 48 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.8 | f/1.7 |
| Focal length | 25 mm | 25 mm |
| Sensor | Sony LYTIA LYT-600 | Samsung GN8 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.95" (≈ 0.51 inch) | 1/2" (≈ 0.5 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.8 micron | 0.8 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 8 MP | 13 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | - | 16 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX355 | Sony IMX712 |
| Sensor size | 1/4.0" (≈ 0.25 inch) | 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.14 micron | 1.12 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | - | 145 |
| Zoom | - | 99 |
| Samples | - | Photo samples of Google Pixel 9a from DxOMark |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 16 megapixels | 13 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 4608 x 3456 | 4032 x 3024 |
| Aperture | f/2.4 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 24 mm | 20 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K3P9 | CMOS |
| Sensor size | 1/3.09" (≈ 0.32 inch) | 1/3.1" (≈ 0.32 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | 1.12 micron |
| Autofocus | No | No |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.4 | 5.3 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 2 | 3.2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | No | Yes |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | Yes | No |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 1 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | Standby |
| eSIM support* | No | Yes |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 13 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | No | No |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Announced | July 2024 | March 2025 |
| Release date | August 2024 | April 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $499 | $499 |
| Successor | - OnePlus Nord 5 | - Google Pixel 10a |
| SAR (head) | - | 0.99 W/kg |
| SAR (body) | - | 1.39 W/kg |
| Sensors | - Hall-effect sensor - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Not included | Not included |
Further details
Notes on Nord 4:
- The 128 GB variant comes with UFS 3.1 memory, while the others – with UFS 4.0.
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
If the performance, gaming, battery life, and design are more important to you, then choose the OnePlus Nord 4. But if the connectivity and software are more of a priority – go for the Google Pixel 9a.
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