Apple recently announced its all-new iPhone 16 lineup. The series has four different devices: the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. The devices’ most highlighted features were the new capacitive camera control button and the new A18 Pro chipset. Apple claims that the CPU performance on this chipset is twice as fast as the chipset on the iPhone 12 series. The firm also talked about the new graphene thermal system during the event. But all these are on-paper spec and how they compare to the Android flagships has to be seen and the answers are certainly exciting.
Apple A18 Pro wasn’t able to beat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the Genshin Impact gaming test
A YouTuber who does frequent comparisons between the tech devices to test out their power recently put the iPhone 16 Pro on a gaming test. He ran Genshin Impact on other high graphic games on last year’s iPhone modes, this year’s iPhone 16 Pro Max and some Android flagships with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and MediaTekDimensity 9300 chips. So this was more than a testing, a brief comparison of these devices. The results of this comparison are rather more interesting.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max was able to beat its predecessor, the iPhone 15 Pro Max in the performance. The gap between them wasn’t very high, but decent. However, the Android flagship, which was the Red Magic 9S Pro, that runs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was able to dethrone the iPhone in raw performance. The Red Magic also has an active cooling system that gives it an extra edge over the competitors and can likely allow the chipset to push more performance.
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Talking about the statistics, the iPhone 16 Pro Max running on the latest Apple A18 Pro was able to get an average FPS (frames per second) of 55.5 in Genshin Impact. And on the other hand, the Red Magic 6S Pro, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was able to get an impressive average FPS of 59.9. The difference is not very big but running the high graphic game with consistent frames and with more stability is a plus for gamers.
What’s more interesting is that the same Apple A18 Pro on the vanilla variant, the iPhone 16 Pro, was only able to get an average frame rate of 49.5 FPS. The performance was not very stable either. This could be very well because the smaller area does not allow the heat to dissipate properly hence forcing the chipset to throttle its performance.
One more interesting turn was when the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, which runs on less powerful Apple A18 chip was able to get a higher frame rate in the games compared to its big brothers. Interestingly, the Xiaomi 14 Pro, which also runs on the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as Red Magic was able to get an average FPS of 38.9. This goes to show how important the heat dissipation system and overall software processing is.
