So as you guys are probably aware,
I've been doing a lot of testing on
the new M1 iPad Pro recently as you can
probably see from some of my videos,
and in this video I've had a lot of requests
for people asking me to test a game called Genshin Impact.
Because apparently it's quite a demanding game
and people struggle to actually run it
on their previous generation iPads,
or if they do run it it can get
quite hot relatively quickly.
So I'm going to be testing it out in this video
and I'll give you guys my thoughts and opinions.
So to give you some background
I've been playing this game for about an hour in total.
I have fully downloaded it onto
the iPad so it's all local.
And at the end of the video I'm going to be
doing a thermal FLIR test of the exterior just
to see how warm the iPad will actually get.
And again guys if you have any videos
that you want me to do,
any tests you want me to run on the iPad,
let me know down in the comment section below.
All right so we'll switch to the camera behind me for this.
And I'm actually going to load up Genshin Impact.
Now as you guys already know
I've been playing this for a little while now.
It's been a pretty enjoyable experience,
right off the bat,
smooth frame rates getting around 40 to 60 FPS.
I've been maxing out the settings as much
as I can with no real performance issues.
All right now that we are in game
let's jump into the settings
before we go any further
and we'll come here into graphic settings.
So you guys can see,
I have it set to the maximum.
So I have everything set to the highest.
The only thing I have changed
is FPS and motion blur.
So I've set FPS to 60,
I've also set in motion blur to off just because
I don't really think you need motion blur.
I generally turn that off in any game I play.
A because it's annoying
and B it's just an unnecessary
tax on your system resources.
So let's jump back into the game.
We'll run around and we'll see how this performs.
Now you guys won't be able to see
because I'm only recording in 25 FPS
on this particular camera.
I've had some people ask me to do it in 60 FPS
and it's just not possible.
A it's just not really possible with my current setup
and B you're not really going to be able to
see a huge difference anyway.
So you're really just going to have to take my word
for it unless you actually have this
at home and you can test it yourself.
Doesn't matter if the camera's recording in 30 or 60
you really won't be able to tell the difference.
Anyway that being said,
let's just have a quick look here.
So it's very,
very smooth.
There is definitely a noticeable difference
between 30 FPS and 60 FPS
when you change them in the settings.
But this is running very,
very smoothly.
Even if I zoom up onto the character,
you can see there there's no dropped frames,
nothing like that.
I'll zoom back out it's just a little bit weird.
I can jump around.
And what I'll actually do is I'll fast forward
to some combat so you guys can see
just how smooth it is.
Okay so combat is quite smooth,
there's no issues here at all.
Don't pay too much attention to
my skill level here guys.
I really have not played this game for too long,
but yeah combat's quite enjoyable.
There's really no stuttering frames,
there's no dropped frames.
The actual quality of the graphics
looks really good as well.
So let's continue on.
So again guys really no issues there at all.
Performance is very very good.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm actually
going to set a timer on my phone for 20 minutes.
So I've been gaming for about 10
minutes at this point already.
So as you guys can see there
I've set a timer for 20 minutes.
So we'll keep playing this game and then
we'll come back we'll see what the thermals are like,
and we'll also see what the performance was like as well.
Okay guys,
so we have about a minute left as you can see there.
So I'm just going to cancel that so the timer
doesn't go off and if we jump back into the game,
you can see that's still working pretty well,
not too many issues.
Definitely is getting a bit hot on the back.
Okay so I'm just going to pause it there.
I think I was about to die anyway.
As I say guys I'm not very good at this game at all.
Now let's just talk about the performance real quick.
So 20 minutes of gameplay just then,
probably about half an hour in total on max settings.
I didn't see any kind of
frame rate drops or anything like that.
It was a very very smooth and enjoyable experience.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to connect
my FLIR camera onto my phone,
and we are going to do a FLIR thermals test of the back.
Now if you guys saw my Call of Duty Mobile video yesterday
you would know that that didn't really
heat up the back at all.
I didn't do Warzone in that particular video,
which I will save for a separate video.
But for this particular video,
it definitely is a little bit more warm on the back,
not significantly so,
but we're about to tell.
So just right off the bat,
just feeling it,
I'm going to say it's around 45 degrees,
40 to 45 degrees Celsius.
On the edges it's not too warm.
It's definitely not uncomfortable.
So I'd still be able to hold this and play,
but maybe another hour or so of gameplay
might start to get a little bit hot,
but surely after about 30 minutes of gameplay
you're already basically as hot
as you're going to get.
At least that's what I found with M1 MacBook Air
which didn't have a fan just like this.
So let's put it back on the stand.
Okay so as we can see there
right in the center where the M1 chip is
we're at about 41 degrees.
It's also a little bit warm down the bottom.
So about 35 degrees.
Now if we actually flipped this over
and we have a look at the back.
So we can see right in the middle,
it's actually cooler than what I thought.
So I was pretty much spot on with 40 degrees Celsius.
And towards the center,
about 42,
44.
Okay so we're right up to 44,
just right in the middle there but
as soon as you get about a centimeter out
it drops right down to about 42,
43,
and then obviously on the edge is quite cool,
which is to be expected.
So guys I am pretty impressed with the performance
of this iPad over the last half an hour.
It's pretty obvious to me now
that the 8 GPU cores in this M1 chip are
perfectly designed for mobile gaming,
such as this game.
Like I said before you know,
30 almost 40 minutes of gameplay,
max settings,
60 FPS.
This is a relatively demanding game
and we're barely warm on the back.
We're hitting about 40 degrees Celsius.
Anyway guys thank you for watching this video.
Hopefully you found it interesting.
Again any video suggestions or ideas
comment down below but apart from that,
I'll catch you in the next one.