Smartphone Thermal Throttle Test: Pixel 4XL vs LG V50 vs OnePlus 7T vs Asus ROG II By JuanBagnell

Who's up for a little torture, testing, soap boxing I'm, getting real tired of geeks, acting like we shouldn't do things with our phones, we're finally starting to take things like video editing more seriously, but whenever I show some comparison, testing, some nerd has to crawl out of the woodwork to whine about how their phone lost and because their phone lost than most people shouldn't be trying to replace laptops and tablets with premium phones. One of the most common criticisms of my video rendering tests is that they're not long enough? That's not how someone might really edit a video out in the field with only one minute of footage to render not that I don't send my family members short edited videos, or that social sharing on Twitter and Instagram is usually time limited, but again we're talking about the sensitive feelings of gadget. Fanboys we've got to think about their feelers. Actually, the note could be fair. If we're talking about benchmarking and real world performance running a phone hot might affect performance in a longer run situation. So let's try something more brutal.

What about a handbrake style, video transcode of a whole movie? I have a terrific Blu-ray rip of a Fish Called Wanda at around 4 gigabytes and I want to make it a bit more phone storage friendly. So let's drink it down to one gigabyte, that's up four to one compression ratio, we're gonna line up four phones and see which phone finishes the fastest on the table from left to right. We've got an LG V 50, a one plus seventy, a Pixel 4 XL and an ASUS ROG -. It is ROG by the way only filthy, casuals call it rogue it's an eclectic grouping, but the phones were chosen with purpose. The V 50 has a Snapdragon 855 but uses a larger internal heat pipe to manage thermals to get more peat out of the phone more efficiently.

The V 50 is currently on Android 9. The OnePlus 70 has a Snapdragon 855 plus, which is a better Bend chip than the regular 855 and represents a slight spec bump over the regular chip. It is on Android 10, but the is no thermal Hardware on the OnePlus to manage internal temps. The pixel for Excel uses a regular snapdragon. A 55 has no fancy internal cooling hardware, but does use a faster file system and is obviously on the latest version of Android and lastly, the ASUS dog, using a snapdragon 855 plus with a vapor chamber, to help cool the chip, it's using the same faster file system as the pixel 4, but it's currently on android 9 between these four phones.

We have a solid mix of hardware and software features loosely representing almost the entire premium. Android ecosystem I keep trying to drill this into people's brains. Just having the same CPU does not mean we should expect the same performance across all phones. All four are working on a transcoding test that would make a decently Spec ht $1000 laptop struggle. Now my prediction after render testing the pixel 4, was that Google would kick out an early lead and then a phone like the DOG might be able to catch it.

Surprisingly, my prediction was totally wrong. I'm always happy to be surprised, especially when the results are this unexpected. Nothing could catch. The pixel for I set each phone to a 10-minute screen timeout and the pixel for shut off its display before the DOG could finish to transcode and the v50 was shortly behind that the OnePlus 70 took a while, after to finish up after the V 50. Now this film is 1 hour and 48 minutes long, the pixel for finished in 24 minutes, which is absolutely insane.

The DOG took twice as long at 48 minutes. The V 50 was right behind it in 52 minutes and the OnePlus sauntered in at the end 1 hour and 17 minutes. This looks bad for the OnePlus, but this is not a defeat. I repeat, this is not a defeat. My $1000 mate book took 2 hours and 54 minutes to accomplish the same quality trance code.

We should all be celebrating the fact that a $600 phone can outperform a thousand-dollar laptop and that more expensive phones perform even better. This makes so much sense in my brain like how the universe should fit together. This works. For me, those speeds across the board are impressive, but a torture test talking about thermals is incomplete. If we don't discuss the thermals now, I still haven't found a good, accurate measure of the inside of a phone, especially in a way that can be consistently applied across all phones and platforms.

So what I'm doing is kind of a cop-out, but we will need to compare external case temperatures running my little laser thermometer all over the front and back of each phone pew-pew. While they're doing the test. The v50 ran the coolest at a peak external case temperature of 27 degrees, Celsius, the ROG stayed right behind it at a peak temperature of 29 degrees, the one Play trade just a touch warmer at 30 degrees and the pixel for led the pack with a peak external case, temperature of 41 degrees, Celsius, okay, so finding the hottest part of a phone case is far from scientific. We should automatically consider at least a two to three degree margin of error, but even in the best-case scenario, the pixel for ran about 10 degrees warmer than the v50. Pushing phones is aggressively what we don't know yet.

Would it be better to run 10 degrees warmer for half the time or run 10 degrees, cooler for twice as long I, don't know of any long-term testing that can guide us there? What's the best way to maximize performance with a minimum of wear on the battery and the chipset, my personal hypothesis would be running, cooler would be better, but I honestly, don't know the cool thing we've got the horsepower and the software is starting to catch up. Phones are well on their way to disrupting traditional laptop performance and over the next couple of years, we'll get to see how this kind of use might additionally age, our pocket computers and, lastly, the encouraging thing about these results. For me, the long-form transcoding seemed to line up well with my shorter transcoding and rendering test. I still don't have enough confidence that we can perfectly extrapolate from my one-minute render how long a 20-minute project might take, but we're in a decent ballpark. Those performance differences do seem to track from shorter, bursts of editing to longer projects I'm becoming more confident in using this series of tests as a predictor of performance.

Moving forward and well beyond the gimmick of app speed runs, if we want to use our phone as the brain of a laptop or even a desktop computer, it needs to be able to handle heavier workloads, setting the phone to one task and knowing it can complete that task without any significant compromises over a traditional laptop or desktop more. It's really exciting when our phones can do that task better. This is where I'm going to put that call out again. What other tests can we perform and drop some comments down below I'm, not looking for more synthetic benchmarks. I want real-world stress tests.

Now something tells me that for many consumers out there, a premium phone purchase might already be delivering more computing power than a mid-range err laptop for their needs. As always, thanks. So much for watching for sharing these videos subscribing to this channel more than just pushing the button on an app and getting a number score and acting like that should be a purchasing recommendation. We want to know what we're really getting when we're buying an expensive gadget if you'd like to help support the production of those conversations there are links below, or you could consider joining the list of names currently scrolling by on your screen. It's a growing community of fun, like-minded tech, pals they're, a huge resource for me as I'm planning, future videos, editorials and comparisons, they're, just perfect people, so I hope you'll check them out now.

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