 Hey guys, Thundie here and welcome to another battle vid. This one is between the Galaxy S23 Ultra and the iPhone 14 Pro Max to find out which is the best smartphone out of the two. Now if you join us for the very first time, we do videos like this and more, so go ahead and smash that subscribe button notification icon to get notified about more videos just like this. Now in terms of hardware, both of them are gorgeous looking devices. The Galaxy display is 6.8 inches with a max net brightness at 1750 same as last year. The iPhone beats in this carry go at 2000 indirect sunlight, but they are both lovely displays. Similarities also include 120 hertz refresh rate for both displays as well as also a variable refresh rate or adaptive refresh rate if you will. So that's pretty nice there with these devices. Now let's look at the camera. Camera housing has four cameras for the Galaxy 3 for the iPhone. iPhone has a whopping 48 megapixel sensor. The Galaxy comes with a staggering 200 megapixel sensor at the back of the device. Now when it's talking about lenses, the iPhone does have an ultra-wide and a telephoto. The Galaxy does come with three orders. Two telephoto is one 10 megapixel, one is 10 periscopic and also a 12 megapixel ultra-wide. Now this brings us to the camera and what we can expect from them. Now I don't do camera comparisons, so if you want a full detail, definitely go check out Danny Wing and of course SuperSaf to find out more intricacies about that. What I will do is show you some of the images and stuff that I've captured and I'll talk about one section after we complete this which is of course the battle between super steady and of course action of gods. Brandon, Danny, you know, John. So we're here and look at that thing. It's blown out on the iPhone. But anyway, let's talk about the comparison between darkness and light. I know, right? That was crazy. Anyway guys, welcome to my comparison between the Galaxy S23 Ultra and the iPhone 14 Pro Max. It's going to be fun. I like the fact that both of them have features that are beneficial to one or the other. But when it comes to super steady versus action mode, Samsung has gone ahead and improved that quietly, matching almost similar resolution to the iPhone at QHD at 60 frames per second and defaults to initial shooting at ultra-wide and then into of course 1x. I think the Galaxy has caught up. It is much better on ultra-wide. It's not as maybe not as good as the iPhone using the main sensor. But let me know your thoughts on that section. Some of the other aspects to the hardware I think you would like of course is the processor. We have the A15 Bionic on the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which we know quite well. And we now have the brand new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Now in terms of benchmarks and geek bench scores, you guys want to see that. And this is where the iPhone wins on a yearly basis and it continues. You can see highest scores in single-core and multi-core for the iPhone compared to the Galaxy. The Galaxy gets close to the single-core, but not as close in multi-core. And then we go to Compute. The Galaxy is behind by about 5,000 points, if you will. But what does that mean in translation with all these high numbers for our gaming experience? And this is where we go into games. Now we played a lot of games on both devices and I just did a gaming video on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. So check that for full gaming details. So we'll go with each game. It's kind of a cold-duty mobile. Now, card mobile on the iPhone, you can play at actual medium, you know, ultra max settings, which I figured would give me, you know, 89 frames per second. While of course on the Galaxy, you can only do that on low with the max setting there. Now what you actually get in performance is quite different from the iPhone. I'm getting 60 frames per second. It stayed at 60. I tried everything and it stayed at 60. While the Galaxy did 89 frames per second, so there's a difference there. Now, not sure why that's the case. It might be a software thing, but I wanted to just kind of leave that for you. Now moving over to PUBG, smooth extreme for both devices played at 60 frames per second. Ultra HD extreme for both devices played at 60 frames per second. And when we went over to Ultra HD Ultra, this is where the iPhone had a little edge here going up to 48 and kind of averaging out of 45 frames per second. The Galaxy was still at 40. Maybe it's a software update, but the iPhone has the edge here. Apex Legends for both devices played pretty well. Ultra HD Ultra, 60 frames per second. So it's very, very solid. Now, rounding it up, of course, is Genshin Impact, which we expected to see some differences. The iPhone last year didn't do as well, but of course it's been updated to the latest software. And here we saw some huge improvements. The iPhone did a solid 59 frames per second all the way for 30 minutes. So that was very, very good. Now moving over to the Galaxy, we just did our Galaxy video. And in that video, I showed you 55 frames per second. And some of you are like, well, you know what, turn this off, turn that off. So I went and we did it again a couple of times before this video. I didn't turn off GOS. I actually kept it the same. I just ran it again. And I got 60 frames per second for 13 minutes of gameplay. So the Galaxy S20 Ultra, yes, can do 60 frames per second with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy. I just want to put that out there for you guys. Now this brings us into temperatures. So what kind of temps were we getting? Well, I'll put it this way. For the iPhone 14 Pro Max playing Genshin Impact, the maximum I got was roughly around 117. It started getting really hot at 110. And this is roughly at the seven minutes mark. So from then on, it just, temperatures went all the way up to 117 actually got rather hot while the Galaxy S20 Ultra stopped at 107 degrees. And this took roughly around 20 minutes of gameplay time for me to get to that temperature. So that's very important in terms of cooling and also the kind of temps you're getting with these devices. When it comes to gaming, it looks like they're evenly matched. But again, that's just something to take note. You can see the differences there with both of them. But of course, speakers are something that's quite important to a lot of people. And we just did a speaker test where we saw how they both performed. I think the iPhone did a really good job. And that's my pick. Some people think it's the Galaxy, but go ahead and check that video and make your decision for yourself because I think it's really close within the speaker environment for both devices. All right, so let's wrap this up with a few miscellaneous things with both devices that are very unique to them. Now the iPhone has Face ID and that works pretty fast. But of course, you know, it also works with a mask now as well. So if you are looking for security measures and how quick it is actually device, Face ID works very well. The Galaxy has of course, facial recognition, but also uses fingerprint sensor and they've got one that I think has been updated very responsive, very fast on the end, the S23 Ultra, which makes it quite unique. Now the other thing here is that the Galaxy S23 Ultra has the S Pen. We know the S Pen has a ton of features and it's built in. It's something that no other device on the market has and that is quite unique. Another feature I like on the Galaxy is the brand new Expert Raw and it has a ton of features here. So you've got the multiple exposure capture. You can also capture 12 megapixels, 50 and then 200 megapixels. But one I do like is the astrophotography, which you would need a tripod to actually mount this on. But you do have something called SkyGuy. This is something I have not found on any device. If I'm wrong guys, let me know. But you can hide or show what it does when you hit show. It shows you where the stars are. So if you're looking for a certain constellation or cluster of stars, you can actually look for it using AI mapping and go ahead and take your picture and you should be able to get the constellation you're looking for. That's actually pretty cool advancement for astrophotography. So what do I think? I think honestly both devices are evenly matched. I think Samsung has done a great job in improving the things that didn't work well with the S22 Ultra into the S23 Ultra here, especially when it comes to the camera and the gaming features. I think it really does well. I give the Galaxy the slight edge on gaming for me just because of those temperatures and staying cooler for much longer periods of time. But I want to know what you think, which do you think is the better device here? Which do you think handles any of these departments well? Leave your thoughts down below. If you also want to pick up either the iPhone 40 Pro Max or the brand new Galaxy S23 Ultra, use my link down below in the description. I do have a link, custom link, that will give you $150 credit to purchasing your S23 Ultra. So leave your thoughts down below and always enjoy entertainment.