 Hey guys, a Thunder E here and in my hands I've got the Galaxy S21 versus the iPhone 12. Want to find out which is the best in terms of speakers and gaming because that's what we care about right here. So let's find out. Alright guys, thank you for joining me on the channel. If you haven't subscribed already, hit the subscribe button and notification icon to watch more videos like this on the channel. So I do have the brand new Galaxy S21 and the iPhone 12 and I figured this was a good price point because this is of course the entry level within both of the series. Yes, I know there's an iPhone 12 mini but as we've seen Apple has cut production and is moving over to the 12 and 12 Pro so most people are looking at the iPhone 12 if you're an iOS user and of course if you're a Galaxy user then the Galaxy S21 is the device for you. So looking at both devices, they've got of course different cameras. We have the triple camera setup on the Galaxy S21 and we've got of course dual camera setup. This is not a camera video so I'm not showing you showcasing that but go ahead and check out Super Saiyan's video on that. He does a good job on it as well as my buddy Danny Wingett. But what we care about is internals for gaming but before we get to that what about audio? It's really important in your gaming experience. Both of them have stereo speakers with the Galaxy S21 using Dolby Atmos so without wasting any more time let's take a listen to audio from both speakers and then we'll find out. So they both sound good with the iPhone 12 having more of a bassy sound with the speakers while the Galaxy S21 sounds a little much louder and more spacious. Now I think the S21 sounds a bit tinny especially if you turn off Dolby Atmos you can hear it more so you definitely keep it on. But I want you guys to let me know which of these two speakers you like. I'm kind of in between both. I prefer the S21 Ultra honestly but I'll say these two on two different spectrums here. But anyway let's get into gaming. Now we do have the Snapdragon 888 on the Galaxy S21 or the Exynos version but my version here is the Snapdragon version and we do have the Apple A14 chipset on the iPhone 12. So with the Galaxy S21 it is a 6.2 inch display 6.1 on the iPhone 12. Now in terms of refresh rates you've got an adaptive refresh rate of 120 Hertz and of course this is adaptive if nothing's going on the screen it drops down. This is using the show refresh rate feature and developer options on Android which you can use while here we're using test ufo showing us it's just 60 for the iPhone. So as gamers we want faster refresh rates and the Galaxy takes the edge right there. Now what about benchmarks? We started with benchmarks because a lot of people like that as opposed to just jumping into gameplay which I got some gameplay sessions as well. So looking at our geek benchmark five benchmarks for both devices we can see that the Galaxy S21 comes in a single core at 1076 while the iPhone 12 comes in at 1588 so roughly almost 500 points higher than the Snapdragon 888 while the multicore on the Galaxy S21 is at 3,269. The multicore on the iPhone 12 is at 4,096. Man that is huge that is really massive in terms of the gap here but to me all of that means nothing until we look at how it performs with games. Now as you guys know I love playing mobile games and the games we're checking out for this video is really simple. We're going to be checking out of course Call of Duty Mobile which is like a baseline for both PUBG mobile and of course Genshin Impact. Now you've probably seen me use different accessories to game on my of course Android devices and the Galaxy. I'd like to use the Razer Kishi which is my go-to but I do have others from Gamesar and you know Flywheel and I'll have the links for you down below. And for the iPhone you saw that backbone controller and you're going like what is that? It's a really cool controller and I think probably the best controller for the iPhone. But let's take a look at our very first two games and look at what we have in terms of benchmarks. Start off with PUBG Mobile not Call of Duty Mobile but PUBG Mobile. With settings here at Ultra HD Ultra for the S21 we got 40 frames per second with 100% FPS stability while for the iPhone 12 we got 43 frames per second with 99% stability. It's 2 FPS more doesn't really matter but looking at the CPU usage the iPhone is at 53% GPUs are 32. Now granted GPU is not registered on the Galaxy. The CPU usage is rated at 10.94. Now memory usage is much higher on the Galaxy at 840 in terms of the average memory while it's 675 megabits per second on the iPhone. So again very similar FPS is higher on the iPhone but is more consistent on the Galaxy. Granted it's only by three FPS points. So when we go over to check of course smooth extreme which is the next setting you can use I like to use with PUBG Mobile. Looking at the Galaxy S21 60 frames per second 100% FPS stability which is great while the iPhone is at 59% with 100% FPS stability. Again this is marginal the line of error so I think that's fine. CPU usage here for the iPhone is at 56.5% or 50% while the Galaxy it's at 13.50. Again it's registering low maybe that would change when we get an update to supporting the GPU software but again just give me that. But in terms of memory we're looking at 863 for the Galaxy while it's 671 megabits per second for the iPhone. So again memory usage there is lower. Now when we move over to color duty mobile now of course this one we expected to run well because the game always runs well. It's called mobile it's not intensive but it's a good baseline just to check out 60 FPS 99% stability for the Galaxy S21 with 1132 megabytes of memory usage. Again CPU is at 10.81 so I'll kind of discard that because it's very similar there. Now with the iPhone looking at 59 frames per second with 100% FPS stability and the memory usage is 941 so a bit higher here with color duty mobile as opposed to what we had on pubg. Now of course finally we're going to move over to you know Genshin Impact which of course is a game that is graphically intensive. I of course set the game to 60 frames per second which is the highest you can do and on the Galaxy S21 we're looking at 60 frames per second, 99% FPS stability, CPU usage just show up higher at 27% and its memory usage is at 1417 for its average memory usage so much higher there and when we go over to the iPhone 12 we're looking at 58 frames per second so this is two frames lower and stability is also dropped down to 97%. CPU usage here on the iPhone is really high 93.59% now again I don't fully trust my readings from CPU usage on the Galaxy but again it's just really much higher here and the average memory usage is 1130. So what does that all mean? I threw numbers out there for you and you're going okay but Dundee we saw it ran well and if you look at both gameplays they run really well on any of those games I mentioned. What it means is simply this both systems can run games really well. Run the games you want to and it looks like the Galaxy has caught up. We know that with the Snapdragon 865 or 865 plus last year we couldn't run Genshin Impact at 60 frames per second with a high enough FPS stability and that has improved this year so that is great to see with that and it doesn't really matter with benchmark scores because yes the iPhone had higher benchmark scores but it ran well and it also doesn't really matter with memory as well because the Galaxy has 8 gigs of RAM and the iPhone 12 is really around three or four and that runs well as well so it all depends on how things are optimized on the system. Now you're going to ask me about temperatures. This is where Samsung has cut up with Apple now usually we know there's a lot of thermal cooling on Samsung devices they haven't mentioned much this year the iPhone was running at about a hundred and three hundred and four degrees the Galaxy was also running at a hundred and three hundred and four degrees so special cooling or not it doesn't really do anything I don't know if it has this year but temperatures they're running about the same. Now when it comes to battery life here is a little bit different we know the Galaxy S21 has a 4000 mAh battery and the iPhone has a 2850 mAh battery so there is a big difference between batteries and it shows while gaming I can definitely attest to you that the iPhone battery drains much faster on the iPhone 12 than it does on the Galaxy S21 so if you want a game for longer periods of time the S21 is the device for you also if you're using 5G whether it be gaming or anything else the iPhone 12 just does not cut it it drains really fast and I think this is just because the 5G SOC chipset is not on the same die as of course the chip as opposed to the S21 where everything is all on the same die so it's a bit more efficient. I think overall though if you're looking at both of them as devices for gaming day-to-day use you'll find that they do both work well. Now if your worries are battery life you know and temperatures I will still lean over to the Galaxy S21 because you get longer battery life and will perform just as well with all the games you want to. So there it is guys let me know your pick is it the Galaxy S21 or the iPhone 12. If you have any questions or any comments leave them down below otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.