hey guys welcome to max tech and in this video i'm gonna be doing perhaps the
most important gaming test to ever happen in the iphone's history i'm gonna
be testing out if using low power mode on the iphone 13 pro or 13 pro max is a
viable option for iphone gamers to get both awesome performance and much better
battery life at the same time and before you call me crazy for believing that
something like that would actually be possible let me explain myself in my
crazy long 25 minute long one week review of the iphone 13 pro max which
you should definitely check out if you haven't already i showed you guys some
incredibly interesting a15 chip testing done by geeker1 on youtube he basically
showed that the 5 core gpu on the a15 is so powerful that while using low power
mode the 13 pro max outperformed the snapdragon 888 chip by 17
while using almost three times less power giving it insanely good
performance per watt while using low power mode and then i recently read an
article on notebookcheck.com written by sanjeev where he mentioned that low
power mode most likely completely disables the performance cores so the
entire phone will run on just the four efficiency cores obviously saving a lot
of battery life but not only that the a15s geekbench performance scores while
using low power mode are still able to compete with flagship android phones
under full performance so because of all of that i had this crazy idea what if
you could play games with low power mode turned on and still get a solid 60 fps
while not dealing with display dimming issues and saving battery life all at
the same time essentially being the most perfect gaming mode the iphone has ever
seen well that's exactly what i'm gonna find out in this video because this
iphone 13 pro max is completely charged and set to 80
brightness so i'm gonna play some games for a full hour to see how much battery
life it consumes and then i'm gonna recharge the phone back up to a hundred
percent and play another full hour but this time while using low power mode and
i'll be testing to see if there are any performance drawbacks or differences in
display dimming and then after that hour we'll see if it actually saves battery
life or not so with that said let's begin with some call of duty mobile all
right so as you guys can see just to confirm we're at 100 battery life 80
brightness bluetooth is off and we are in call of duty so let's go ahead and
unplug and let's start the test we are sitting at 144 so an hour from now we're
gonna see how much battery life we're left with all right so here we are one
of the things i do want to point out is the new notch is a little bit smaller
but it doesn't really make a difference because it's still there and i do love
the new speakers on the 13 pro max they're just
so good all right let's go man
oh snap oh
are you serious i didn't get them so far performance no issues at all of course
someone's shooting at me oh he's up there
got him all right they're
probably gonna be over here somewhere
someone was behind me man oh you're trying an iphone bro get out
of here oh
oh two on one performance perfect 60fps
oh get out of here bro no issues at all boom
no issues with the performance perfect 60. of course
little power mode is off right now so we're not gonna really see any issues
yet oh man you dead and you did where are all the
bad dudes oh you did oh snap are you dude these
guys got to be bots man are you serious i know you like to be up there man
oh you're are you serious i'm gonna throw a drone in there man watch this
oh snap at you boom
oh that's it that was easy
no issues with performance at all i definitely say that i love the more
immersive display yeah daddy
is he trying to knife me try me bro try me
you got him oh footsteps
boom oh two guys on the left right here
that wasn't mine all right watch i'm gonna get this dude watch
this watch this
i'm gonna get you too oh are you serious
oh what all right watch this what's this what's this i'm gonna throw it right at
somebody's face all right so no performance issues perfect 60fps the
entire time as expected with this flagship phone all right now let's try
out pokemon unite
this is one of my first times playing this game but i'm
definitely excited the settings are set to the highest quality 60fps by the way
no display dimming at all all right we fighting boys these are fighting words
right here okay oh that's me man
we going in boys boom
oh it goes through them okay this is a fun game man
so you can see the fps counter up at the top basically getting a really nice
solid 60 i mean it stays at 59. you dead boy
give me that give me that boom wow this game is fun are you serious man wow oh
dude this is like the big dude man
you mine yeah you dude all right i'ma chase you
all the way to your base man
wow this guy is good man whoever this is man
oh run oh oh
he had me man all right performance perfect as
expected not even a single drop of display dimming so far and i'm playing
at 80 brightness which is basically usually what everyone would be playing
in even like a bright lit room so
win for the kill boys let's go
boom all right we earned it it's interesting
that there's no items in here you know like league of legends wild rift you got
items a lot of them but here
there are no items oh watch there's another guy over here
check this out
dead all right this is gonna be scary let's go
boom oh i'm so dead guys
nice perfect perfect fps 60 no issues no dimming no
nothing as expected
look at that 14
not bad all right that was fun with that said let's actually test out another
game that is similar to this wild rift
and now we're in wild rift i'm going to set the frame rate to 60 and graphics
quality to ultra man the speakers on this new iphone 13.
so good oh riven i used to play riven
on pc league all the time riven's hardened around man
oh come on get out of here i mean come here
nice good job guys let's crank cranking it up
oh come on that's fine that's fine all right i
don't know if you guys can see but the fps counter perfect 60
the entire time no it's just oh i got my all dude careful bros
oh you're serious
but i haven't played this game forever hey take him
all right let's take this turret forget these dudes man
guys look out they're coming in hot
oh no
oh i like barely made it out there
oh i got a dude
oh no so
far guys no issues at all still no dimming in this game still perfect 60fps
i'm out of here boys apparently
what oh i'm starting to feel the phone heat up a little bit now
that's what i'm talking about yeah oh
oh there you go i need that so the phone's heating up but still no
issues with performance or dimming so that's good
yes enemy team surrendered
good job guys yes all right perfect gameplay guys just
like i said before a million times all right now with that game out of the way
let's play some pub g mobile there you go so 60fps everything
that's super smooth man wow some weird glitches
is that like lag or something all right i see somebody watch the spot
oh you're dead but yeah i mean this game
is running fine too no issues
see you dude got him
oh we just dimmed guys it's been one hour of playing those four different
games and we only had dimming in this one so let's check out
our battery life 88 battery life after one hour as you can
see 244 exactly one hour after i'm gonna go
ahead and recharge this phone i'm gonna let it cool off and i'm gonna rerun
everything in low power mode all right there we go we're finally finished
charging you can see a hundred percent and now let's turn on that low
power mode and let's run the gaming test again
starting with call of duty mobile still nice and bright man still
perfectly smooth get out of here perfectly smooth 60
still in low power mode you dead boy oh
later later nerds
oh i don't see him i don't see him oh no where is he at
oh footprints ah all right i'm bad watch
this what's this oh
oh come on let me let me get him let me get him
take that bye-bye
dude he's fast man no
all right that first round literally didn't notice
any performance drawbacks at all perfect 60
no stuttering nothing
with low power mode turned on crazy let's get into the next game that is
pokemon unite let's do it again with this game let's
see what we get for performance
what is this future sight man why did i get future sight i don't want
that anyway guys look at that fps counter it's stuck at 59 fps basically
60 at all times and ain't moving even in
low power mode man of course this is like a pretty easy game i'd say but hey
man boom
oh no run dude you got no chance man
let me just drop these off here oh come on serious
oh that was like a lux
laser blast man guys low power mode i have not seen it go down it's insane
even in all these like group matches and stuff crazy so good so good
he just one shot me he one shot me
what man i thought this game was like you know easy and stuff
dude you can't run for me bro all right here's the big boy right here
this guy don't mess around but he's dead watch this try and hit me try and hit me
you can't you can't hit me man you're dead
yes oh
this is an entertaining game this is like the only guy who could like
potentially like even try to kill me dude watch one hit one hit kill
no performance issues at all the first two games let's go ahead and jump into
some wild rift
league of legos i'm actually quite shocked guys those first two games no
performance issues at all no drop frames no stuttering in low power mode man so i
go in front of them and i sweep
let me get out of here warrior spirit man
ah not worth it not worth it all right so
i've noticed still 60 fps i don't know if you can read that or not it's really
really tiny but we still have 60 fps guys
we got him boys
oh double kill finally it's interesting even in these
uh big group fights i'm not noticing the fps go down ever
guys kill that turret please oh we good baby let's go let's go
oh no yeah that was so good
oh man that's impressive man alright we're back playing some pub g and the
first time we did see some dimming so let's see if under low power mode if
it's using less wattage or the
performance cores are turned off if we don't get dimming that'd actually be
really amazing if we don't get any dimming so we'll see
all right what's this come on
oh i just noticed some dimming again guys
this game did dim oh dude he saved me yep so i did notice
dimming it did them down just right now so i wonder if pubg is one of the more
demanding games out there i guess get in loser we're going shopping oh
what's up dude let's go all right guys i've been playing pubg for a while and i
don't know i'm not noticing like drop frames or anything it's doing really
really good so far so i'm happy i'm happy i guess after these four games
not having issues the only question is are we saving any battery life what if
it's exactly the same as it was before oh there you go
all right guys it has been an hour as you can see 4 41 exactly an hour and
here's a moment of truth no performance issues at all basically break 60 the
entire time now
let's see how much battery life we're left with
92 percent hey it's not like super crazy good but
92 versus 88
that's basically four extra percent that we're not losing after a full hour of
gameplay with low power mode on at 80 brightness
that is actually a really good difference because if you play for
multiple hours this is gonna add up to some good battery life savings i'm
impressed 92 instead of 88
that's pretty good alright so there you guys go that was two hours of gaming
with charging in between and i think we have finally answered our original
question yes
low power mode is viable for 60 fps gaming because i did not notice any
performance issues no stuttering no drop frames basically great 60 fps solid
60fps on all four of those games no issues i only had the dimming issues in
pubg the other games were totally fine i'm actually surprised 92 that we're
left with instead of 88 now i know from now on literally
everybody with an iphone 13 pro or pro max should be using low power mode for
gaming especially pokemon unite whatever wild rift call of duty i am blown away
by how good this is performing because with those performance cores turned off
the efficiency cores alone are able to run this
just fine and with a down clock gpu using much less power like geekerwan
showed us it's still able to destroy these games run them at solid 60 fps so
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