iPhone 12 Pro vs iPhone 11 Pro - Full Comparison! By Max Tech

Hey guys its max, we just got in the brand new iPhone 12 Pro, and today we're going to be comparing it against the iPhone 11 Pro. But this isn't your typical comparison. Not only are we going to be covering the differences in design, size, performance and those standard kind of things, but we're going to be touching on things that nobody has covered yet, such as the speakers we're going to cover the LTE speeds, not only how much faster 5g is, but how much faster is the 4g modem in here if you're in an area that doesn't have 5g because that's also been updated, we're also going to be doing things like testing out max safe, and we're going to see if we actually are getting 15 watts. Out of this, if you guys didn't see the previous video yesterday, you might want to check that out and answering the question. If you don't buy apple's new 20 watt, USB type-c charger, do you still get 15 watts, or is it slower and how much slower? As you guys know, there is no charger or AirPods included in the box and apple says it's to help the environment, but we think the main reason is in order to keep the pro at 9.99, while giving it the best 5g chip on the market instead of hiking up the price like most android phones and because they're getting rid of those accessories- and we just have this lightning to USB cable. The size of the box is half the size which saves a ton of space in warehousing which in turn helps the environment and saves apple a lot of money.

Now I have to comment on this um. I was kind of skeptical about the square edge. I know Vadim, you were super hyped about it, but man. This thing looks and feels amazing right away. I'm noticing two different things.

First off it feels more comfortable in the hand than I expected with these square edges and two. It feels thicker than I expected. The iPhone 11 Pro is 8.1 millimeters, whereas this new 12 pro is 7.4, that is the thinnest phone in years and, interestingly, before this, I was checking out the SE, which is 7.3 just slightly thinner, and I was expecting this new phone to feel close to the SE, but it doesn't at all. That's because having these rounded edges like on the SE and the previous iPhones, the 11 pro it kind of gives you an illusion of thinness, whereas this thing is significantly thinner, but it feels thicker. Another surprise is that the 12 pro doesn't feel any heavier, despite it being larger and having this larger 6.1 inch display and comparing the width, they are surprisingly basically identical. Despite having a larger display due to the new design, the height is barely changed.

So if you're worrying about having a larger phone with the 12 pro, don't worry, the buttons are lower from the top than before, so they're still going to be easy to access and, along with that, they do feel a little nicer, a little more hand side to the left, and that's because we have this new additional antenna. Four millimeter wave 5g and as for the bottom, we are losing one of the little speaker girl cutouts on the 12 pro. The camera bump is a little larger and the lenses are slightly larger to be proportionate. Now, with that, it actually sticks out more so because the phone is thinner and if we line them up on the desk, the actual lenses are at the same exact level. The flash is also larger, and we have this new LIDAR sensor, but it's interesting that the microphone little hole here is much, much smaller, so we're going to have to test out the audio quality.

Taking a look at the front: let's go ahead and power it on, and you'll notice. A couple of things first off the bezels are quite a bit thinner. That's because the glass on the front now is completely flat, whereas before it was curved around the edges to meet the frame, meaning the apple had to stop the display earlier before that curve. Now another thing that really stands out is with this new 12 pro. The glass literally meets the frame, and you can't even tell a difference.

So the frame is not protecting the front, but it does feel very nice now the notch is identical on both of them, but because the bezels are thinner when we stack them up side by side, we do actually have more room on the sides of the notch. The new 6.1 inch display isn't that much larger than the 5.8 in terms of screen real estate. So you might want to look at the pro max if you wanted more space- and I do want to mention that the glass is using new ceramic shield, which apple says, is four times stronger. Now, let's test out MagSafe, this is what apple is advertising very heavily? It's a new kind of killer feature with the new iPhones, and they even sent out all the reviewers these magnetic sheets, so they can show off the magnets. My curiosity is how much stronger is the connection on an iPhone compared to the case that we tested out previously, so I had that feel right there yeah.

Actually, I definitely noticed a difference pulling up with the case. You actually can feel that it's not that difficult. I mean we still have a solid connection, but then taking mac safe and connecting to the phone. This is the amount of pressure I'm applying to the case, causing it to pop off, but on here wow, that's a much more solid feel, and that is fantastic. So let's go ahead and test out with the case here: go ahead and pop it on, and that was a lot easier, putting the case on compared to older generations.

Okay, it almost feels like it's amplified, but you're saying. Maybe it's going to help the connection. It feels like it's even stronger using a case with MagSafe than just the phone and then, of course, the case by itself is really weak and now, let's test out the new MagSafe charging and see how much faster it is compared to the older iPhones using standard 7.5 watt charging, I'm going to start out with the new 20 watt, USB brick, and then I'm also going to test. What do you get if you're using the 18 watt that a lot of people out there have the results are in and wow? I was not expecting this. We have 5 watts with the standard QI charger and with this one I actually got 7.5 on my 11 pro max. So maybe it's not perfectly aligned on here, whereas max safe, it's always going to be perfectly aligned, but with MagSafe and that 20 watt, brick we're seeing 11.76 so basically 12 watt wireless charging. Now this could be for a couple of reasons.

The one that I probably think is the most likely is that we are at 79, and we don't know when Apple is tapering down that 15 watt wireless charging down to 12 or even slower. Now we are gonna, be doing a detailed comparison between max save charging and fast lightning wireless charging and then even a slow, brick, and then we'll see a full grab, zero, two hundred percent, how much faster it is overall and where that tapers down so make sure you guys subscribe. If you guys want to check out that video now, let's go ahead and test out using the 18 watt, brick, and we have the results with the 18 watt power. Brick, and this app is showing 9.29 watts with this 18 water. Now, at this point, we're at 82 charge.

So once again it doesn't tell the full story, make sure you're subscribed to have those notifications enabled for a detailed charge comparison we're actually buying physical wattage meters. So that's going to be an excellent video. Getting back to the displays. The spec sheet says that they're pretty much identical, but we did find some surprising differences. The typical brightness is the same 800 nits, but one thing that we do notice is that there is a white balance difference, and this is what true tone turned on and without true tone.

We see that the display is actually warmer on the new 12 pro. Now, that's not the only difference. If we take a look at viewing angles, the iPhone 11 Pro actually starts. Turning quite a bit more blue. If you start looking off axis, whereas the 12 pro is now very consistent.

So that's a nice improvement. I do want to mention that we do not have pro motion on the new iPhone 12, which we really wanted to have. But with that said, based on the battery life results which we'll talk about in just a bit, it makes sense why Apple didn't add it, and now it's time for our speaker, comparison apple, didn't mention that there were any changes, but we're going to test it out. Anyways so go ahead and put on a nice pair of headphones and, let's take a listen. Let me know your thoughts down in the comment section below I'll.

Give you guys my opinion because we're hearing it here firsthand, and we actually got some good improvements in every single way, and I was not expecting it now. Maybe the module itself is the same or the modules. Maybe it's just the new design that helps, but we noticed that the highs are more crisp they're a little more sharp it's louder. The mid are more rich, and we have more bass as well, which is nice, and we test it out. Using my decibel meter on my Apple Watch and the iPhone 11 Pro peaked at 81 decibels, and we got a peak of 83 on the new 12 pro.

So that's a two decibel difference, and that is a nice improvement and now, let's get into performance, and we're going to start with what apple is pushing like crazy and that is 5g. So I'm going to go ahead and put my T-Mobile sim in here, and we're going to do some speed comparisons. Now a lot of people are saying that 5g doesn't matter. They don't have 5g in the area, but this new iPhone 12 has a newer modem. It's a snapdragon modem.

So even if you don't have 5g, the 4g should be faster, so we're going to test both of those let's go ahead and get started. I am connected to the same server both are connected to T-Mobile and for the old iPhone we're getting three bars, but we're only getting two bars for the 5g with the iPhone 12. But look at that speed. Difference wow, so we're looking at 2.3 compared to 40. Oh, that just went down to one bar and I have to say that we are in a city right now, where we're having a snow storm outside.

Usually, our reception would be a little faster here indoors and 5g. We have just the slow version, the sub 6, but that really helps penetrate walls and through different things, and maybe that's helping with the snow outside, because look at that difference now the upload isn't that different, but the download speeds from 2.3 to 45, and we are in a concrete building as well, so in bad conditions, that's a massive difference, so we just went outside and tested this on the roof and look at this difference as far as download we're getting 28 on the iPhone 11 Pro and 65. On the 12 pro upload, we have a massive 91, which is the fastest I've ever seen here and then for the 11 pro max. It got 49. Now, if you look at this graph, the 5g was extremely consistent, whereas the 11 pro it actually was running at about 20 for the upload and then as soon as r12 pro got finished, it went up to 49, which is also very good.

Now, of course, your results are going to vary based on your city. We have pretty slow speeds here in Spokane, but with those slow speeds, the 5g phone, the new iPhone 12 is getting really impressive results and now, for those of you guys that don't have 5g in your city, let's go ahead and go into the cellular data options, and we're going to go ahead and turn off 5g we're just going to go to the LTE that way, we'll be able to test if you'll get any improvements. Just with your standard LTE, let's get started we're connected to the same server, and one interesting thing is that in LTE mode our iPhone 12 Pro only has two bars instead of three with the 11 pro, but look at the speed difference. How could this be possible if we only have two bars instead of three? Actually, I know it's the modem. We have a snapdragon x55 modem, the best currently on the market compared to an intel modem, which is I've, been disappointed.

Last couple years, if you guys saw my reviews- and we did another test outside it's so cold out there and both with LTE both had the same five bars and look at these speed differences we're having literally four times faster, download and twice the upload speed, both of them just using standard LTE because of that new snapdragon, LTE chip or our modem in here instead of using intel so forget about 5g. If you don't have 5g they're marketing it. This is the real results for everybody. That's upgrading, you're, going to get faster, download speeds and people that are in better cities that have faster LTE speeds on the 11 pro your speeds might double or even triple. That is very impressive, and I've never seen this good LTE speeds here in Spokane.

So if you're, somebody that is suffering with bad reception, slow speeds, bad penetration into buildings, you can't stream videos very well man. This alone might be a reason to upgrade to the new iPhone 12s. I also want to mention that I am going to be doing a detailed comparison between 5g and 4g, using different parts in the city basements outdoors, so make sure you guys subscribe if you want to see a much more detailed look at the data speeds and now, let's test out this new a14 processor, we're gonna start out with geek bench five and the a14 is the first five nanometer chips on the market. Not only is that better performance and lower power usage, but it also has much faster machine learning and the results are in. I want to show you guys the 11 pro.

First, we have 1300 for single and about 3 400 for the multi-core score and with the iPhone 12 Pro we have 1600 for single core and 4 200 from multi-core. So we have a difference of slightly more than 20 for single core, which is great. This single core score is the highest I've ever seen and multi-core score about 25 faster. Now. Not only do we have a performance difference which, to be honest, the a13 is already very fast.

What I care about more is the ram difference. We have four gigs with 11 pro and six gigs with the 12 pro. That means, if you're a multitasker like I am, it's gonna, make sure that your background apps don't automatically close, and now, let's take a look at graphics performance with this new a14 and here are the results, we have 7 300 on the 11 pro and 93 22 on the 12 pro, so that's getting close to 30, better metal performance. Now I also just noticed that we're still running iOS 13 on this specific 11 pro. So I did test out my 11 pro max with iOS 14.1, and I got 70 500 slightly higher. The previous CPU scores were right in line with what we've gotten on this one as well.

To be honest, I was expecting a little more after. I saw the iPad Air for benchmarks with that same a14, which we're going to have a video on that coming up tomorrow, uh, but I guess 30 is nothing to laugh about. So let's go ahead and do a gaming test. This is actually an tutu. Not only will it simulate a heavy gaming load, but also we're going to take a look at things like memory, UX and all that kind of stuff, and just looking at the test running, it's really hard to tell a difference.

The results are in and this is a little weird. The overall score is about 15, faster accounting for everything the CPU is faster, but looking at the graphics, the 12 pro is actually rated lower a little, which might make sense why I couldn't really see a visual difference in smoothness, so I have no idea what's going on. Maybe this app is not using metal, maybe it's using OpenGL, so we'll actually have to revisit this in our full review of the iPhone 12 Pro make sure you guys have those notifications enabled for that. But one surprising thing is the memory. Our memory score is actually right about double.

It looks like the speeds look at that to write speed went from 900 to uh. What is that 16 000? That's huge, and then the random access is close to three two and a half times faster and the read speed is also tripled, so it looks like not only do we have six gigs instead of four gigs. The actual memory here is much faster, so it looks like our ram. Speed is right about the same, even though we have two extra gigs, that's not what is helping this. The actual storage speed is way faster.

Maybe that's because we have 128 gigs instead of 64 and upgrades in the chips themselves, and now, let's talk about battery life now, obviously we haven't thoroughly tested it. We just got the 11 pro max, but Mr who's, the boss did an amazing comparison, and we can get some very good info from that. Now in his testing, the 12 pro actually got one-hour less battery life than the 11 pro, which is disappointing. Now this is for a couple of reasons. First off the battery itself in this new 12 pro is about 230 William hours, smaller and, along with that, at the same time, we have a larger display with more pixels and that's where we're getting that difference.

Now with that said, if you're coming from an iPhone, 11 or 10r or previous one, that's still going to be a really nice jump in battery life compared to the other phones, and with that one hour loss. If you're somebody that's using 5g, you might actually get a little less battery life, because 5g does take a lot more power but keep in mind. You can go in here and switch over to the LTE if you need better battery life and now, let's talk about the cameras now, only one of the sensors and cameras were actually changed, and that is the main shooter with that one. We have f 1.6 lens instead of f 1.8, and here you guys can see some photos. You guys.

Let me know what looks better down in the comment section below and now, along with that, we have a lot of software updates. We have smart hdr3, we have night mode on all four camera lenses instead of just the main one, and we have a better delusion as well, so we will be actually doing a very detailed comparison, testing out smart HDR and video as well, not only comparing the 12 pro against the 11 pro, but also the iPhone 10 s as well. That's gonna, be a great video, make sure you guys are subscribed for that one. We do have one edition with the 12 pro, and that is the new LIDAR scanner. Now it's not only used for photos, it can be used to scan different objects and that's pretty cool, but most people are going to be using it for a better autofocus and the new portrait night mode feature.

So you can finally combine great low light performance and still get portrait shots. There's a couple more small little differences that I want to mention. First off this camera is going to be able to use Dolby Vision for video HDR built in which is great, we're also going to have apple pro raw coming up in a future update, and with that we have some waterproofing differences. We have ip68 rating with the 11 pro. It goes up to 4 meters for 30 minutes.

Now it can go up to six meters and with that, let's finish off with prices and my final verdict and the prices are staying the same 999 dollars and I know some people are upset. The apple is not including the charger in the box or the AirPods that nobody used, and that is kind of a bummer, but you know what, with apple keeping the prices the same compared to a lot of the android competitors, that hike up the prices with 5g and the fact that they're using the best 5g chip and even if they don't have 5g the LTE, is way faster. I think that is incredible, and with that same price we have double the storage 128 gigs it's about three times faster and that alone right there is sweet, because that is the sweet spot before you had to spend 150 bucks more you're forced to get 256, which I didn't do 128 is awesome. So is it worth upgrading from an iPhone 11 Pro to the 12 pro, and I have to say absolutely now. I know Vadim was very excited about this new model.

I wasn't as excited, but now that I have it in my hands. It looks great. It feels great. Not only do we have a lot of performance improvements from the CPUs to the graphics to the LTE and 5g speeds, but we also have better speakers. We have better glass, that's stronger.

The viewing angles are better there's a ton of improvements. Along with the cameras I have to say this is a killer update and if you have an 11 pro, I think there's a lot of reason to upgrade. So thank you guys for watching. Let us know your thoughts down in the comment section below go ahead and click that circle above to subscribe. If you guys want to see a lot more videos on these new phones, we have some great ones coming up and check out one of the two videos over there.

This been max, and I'll, see you in the next video.

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