iPhone 15 Pro Max v Galaxy S24 Ultra v ROG Phone 8 Pro in gaming thermals test

[Redaktion]

We pit the iPhone 15 Pro Max against the Galaxy S24 Ultra and the ROG Phone 8 Pro in a real-world 30-minute gaming test to see which phone offers the best thermal performance.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/iPhone-15-Pro-Max-v-Galaxy-S24-Ultra-v-ROG-Phone-8-Pro-in-gaming-thermals-test.802390.0.html

[Ical]

I think this test is not comparing oranges to oranges because on the Geekerwan Chinese YouTube channel, they tested the game Genshin Impact on the Rog 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro, and the temperatures were relatively similar. Notebookcheck still needs to recheck the graphic settings and resolution settings for Alien Isolation to be sure.

[Papsy]

I believe from observation, that What these graphene/graphite films or sheet do is to semi-absorb and also transfer heat from a heat source to a cooler part of the sheet/film.Why I say it has absorbing characteristics is that when you look at these PC SSD's graphite implementation you see,it has a strip across the SSD and no part is elongated or spread to make transfer of heat to that part.

Nevertheless, I for one has always marvelled at Apple SoC heat approach,I use to think to myself when I saw teardown that why isn't Apple including these heat spreaders in their smartphones ,cause SSD even do have some if one might say they don't actually work.Now as the rumours are they better consider a way to mitigate the heat !

[dfbfb]

I think this test is not comparing oranges to oranges because on the Geekerwan Chinese YouTube channel, they tested the game Genshin Impact on the Rog 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro, and the temperatures were relatively similar. Notebookcheck still needs to recheck the graphic settings and resolution settings for Alien Isolation to be sure.

Author just cherry picked the game that is better on Android and made a conclusion you can achieve 10C difference by using vapor chamber. Yeah gl lol. Cringe article.

[lmao]

reality check

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6It50rqPhU

thermals in the end

[AnotherLowQualityComment]

reality check

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6It50rqPhU

thermals in the end

I like this guys channel! After watching some of his other Genshin Impact FPS Gaming Test videos, I noticed the following:

1) There seems to be something wrong with the drivers for SD8G3 here because it performs even worse than previous SD8G2 phones (40 fps vs mostly 60 with few drops to 55 every now and then). Not sure if it's due to buggy/immature drivers or what. Not excusing Qcomm for this behavior btw, but just that perhaps it is likely fixable/patchable via a future software update, much like how apple fixed the A17 Pro chips thermals.

2) He states that mobile games are mostly CPU bound and rely heavily on single threaded performance. I believe this to be true too because a) modern adreno gpus (e.g. 740/750) are faster than comparable iPhone SoC's in GPU perf. that were released during same era. (but we don't really see any additional benefit in mobile games) b) even the 2 year old iPhone 13 Pro Max is showing pretty consistent 60 fps at max Genshin Impact settings and we know how monstrous Apple's single threaded CPU perf. is compared to anything else.

Sidenote: Personally, I wish people would stop benchmarking microtransaction games. They tend to be the worst optimized and rather see Yuzu or AetherSX2 tested instead but I can see why youtubers don't as it could result in their channel being DMCA'ed. Also more modern 3D emu's don't really exist on iOS. I'd switch to iPhone in a heart beat if they did and possibly many others would do too.

Until then, I'll have to unfortunately keep settling for inferior h/w for the sake of app compatibility..