OnePlus 9 vs 9 Pro vs S21 Ultra vs iPhone 12 Pro Max vs Find X3 Pro - BATTERY Drain Test! By The Tech Chap

All right its battery test time. I've got both new OnePlus nines, the Oppo find x3 pro the ROG phone 5 s21 ultra note, 20 ultra, and also the iPhone 12 Pro max to see which one has the best battery. I'm matching all the settings on the phones, including 100, nip brightness all background. Apps are closed. These are all pretty much brand-new phones. None have been used for more than a couple of weeks, so let's kick off with YouTube I'll, be going through uh YouTube gaming, social media filming uh to really get a sort of intensive real-world-ish test of the phones.

Now, if you look at the specs under the names you'll see, we've got a variety of battery sizes. The iPhone 12 Pro max is actually the smallest next to the rg5, which is the biggest with a 6 000 million power battery. But above that, you'll also notice the refresh rates- and this is a big question. Every time it comes to battery tests. Do you stick them all at 60 hertz, because the iPhone's at 60, or do you use them in their either default or optimized modes? There's no right or wrong answer, but for me, I like to test these as people would use them, so I'm using them in their automatic or adaptive high refresh modes where possible, but crucially having a high refresh rate with a LPO panel, so you're getting variable refresh rates can actually be an advantage because it can dynamically adjust the frame rate between usually 1 and 120 hertz.

So, if you're watching videos or on a static home screen, it can reduce that to save batteries. So my answer to the question of why not have them all at 60 hertz is because you'll be losing that LPO advantage, which some of these phones offer so uh. Hopefully that goes some way to explain it. The ROG phone is fascinating because, while it does have the biggest battery- and actually this is important- I've left it in its dynamic mode. You could go between x mode, ultra, durable or advanced, where you can customize it, and if you want to put in x mode it would just destroy the battery instantly.

I've left it in the default dynamic mode, so we're two and a half hours into the test, and that seems like a good time to talk about surf shark VPN which, as you can see, have installed on all the phones because well you can get the app on pretty much every device and also an unlimited number of devices, which is handy, and I genuinely do use surf shark all the time, mainly because it has this clean web feature which helps reduce tracking and malware and ads and those horrible sort of things. But it also means I can access us Netflix or Hulu, for example, and it's just super simple to use. So if you want to check out surf shark click, the link below or use the code, tech chat at the checkout to get 83 off and three months extra for free and if you're not entirely satisfied, you can use their 30-day money-back guarantee all right so back to your regular schedule broadcast, and now we're playing a bit of company of heroes for half an hour. I'm rotating the apps on a 30-minute cycle, so it hopefully stays fair. Looking at the results so far, the iPhone 12 Pro max is clearly in the lead, with the OnePlus 9 pro at the back of the pack, closely followed by the note, 20 ultra and actually, while we're here, let's run a quick, geek bench, 5 CPU test just to see how they compare in terms of performance.

Now, comparing iPhones and android phones in benchmarks, it's a little tricky because there's lots of variables, but it does come out ahead in geek bench, with the note 20 ultra with the previous gen 865 plus chip in last place, but actually there's not much in it between the androids. It looks like in geek bench release to jump up to the triple eight. Isn't that significant all right so back to YouTube we're four hours into the test now, and we're in the uh orange category for the OnePlus 9 pro and the note things are getting a little dicey there. The iPhone 12 Pro max is doing incredibly well, and that really is credit to apple's efficiency. I mean you can see, has the smallest battery and yet, at this stage we're still seeing the longest battery life.

I'm not saying who's going to win, although you could probably place your bets at this point, but it does get to show that the size of the battery while important, isn't the only factor. You've also got the screen size and the software efficiencies wow that 30-minute 4k video recording test made a big dent in the batteries the OnePlus 9 pro 5 left, both the OnePlus 9 and then 20 on 10. Iphone's still way out in front. I think we know who's going to win this, but yeah 4k video recording really does have a big impact on the battery. You know what I miss: Huawei phones, it's such a shame about the software situation because it's quite difficult to get the apps on the phone to match the ones I'm testing on here, but until the last you know year or so, whenever I featured a Huawei phone in a battery, rundown they've always done incredibly well, if not actually one.

So it's a shame. I don't have it in the mix here. I would also very much like maybe having the Xiaomi mi 11, but I don't have a sample of that uh. Hopefully I will include the pro or the ultra when it comes out, but don't worry I'll be making more of these. When I get more phones into test, that's it first, one to die the uh note 20 ultra six hours, 31 minutes, one plus nine pro.

What was uh 13 minutes behind 12 minutes behind uh the dropping light flies now OnePlus 9 on just one percent. This is uh. This is close, but yeah we've got our last place and then at uh six hours, 59 we've got the OnePlus 9. So surprisingly, the cheaper OnePlus 9 lasted 16 minutes longer than the more expensive 9 pro. I guess that's because it's got a smaller screen, although it doesn't have the LPO panel, which is surprising.

Then we've got the s21 ultra at seven hours, six, so that lasted a good deal longer than the note 20 ultra, which is the snapdragon version, and now we're down to three and uh it's between the ROG phone and the Oppo to go next and there we go seven hours, 16 the fine x3 pro finally kicks the bucket, leaving the kg phone five with two percent left and giving it the silver medal. Let's see how much longer it can last seven hours, 26 done, leaving the iPhone 12 Pro max with 12 of its battery and everything else dead. Now, that's pretty impressive. I do know that in Mr who's, the boss's battery videos, the iPhone 12 Pro max battery is a lot closer to the s21 ultra and some other phones. But I'll tell you right now.

In fact, I'm going to pause that and just talk to you directly. This is the third time I run this test. The first time the ROG phone was on x mode throughout, so it died really quickly, and I thought that's not really fair, you're more likely to use it in dynamic mode. The second time I ran it, the iPhone torpedo max actually had its auto brightness on it was varying its brightness throughout as the lighting changed, and it got dark. So I thought that's not good enough either.

I want this to be as scientifically real-world as possible, but I can tell you, from my experience of running this test three times that in every single one, the iPhone 12 Pro max won with between 10 and 15 of its uh juice remaining. So that's pretty consistent, so my takeaways well, firstly, I can't wait for the iPhone 13 which fingers crossed it will have a high refresh display. I can't wait to see what kind of impact that has on the battery life and if they can include a LPO of sorts panel and therefore give us the variable refresh rates, because that does make a difference. The battery life, although not as much as I thought, we'd see based on the OnePlus 9 and the 9 pro. It's also fair to say that these are pretty much flagship phones, except for maybe the OnePlus 9, which you'd call high-end.

None of these are offering a bad battery life. This was a pretty intensive test, and they all lasted over six and a half hours screen on time intensive use. So you can't go wrong with any of them, but if you do want the best battery out of these phones, it's the iPhone 12 Pro max and, of course the other thing is. I would like to include more phones, so let me know in the comments below which other phones you'd like me to add next time, I'm going to try and get the Xiaomi mi 11 series, as I say, hopefully, the pro and the ultra, the upcoming Sony, maybe a couple of other phones and if you've got any other feedback or suggestions. Do let me know below if you enjoyed this and also appreciated the fact that I've done this three times now.

So I'm going to have a break from battery life test for a few weeks uh. But hopefully you enjoyed it and I'll. See you guys next time right here on the tech chat and don't forget to check out surf shark VPN use the code, tech chat, 43 off and 3 months, extra free, give it a try.

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