 So when we think of gaming, we don't think of the iPhone 13 mini, but honestly, this little thing packs a punch for the A15 processor. So let's go ahead and find out if we can game successfully with the iPhone 13 mini. Hey guys, Thundie here and welcome to my video on gaming on the iPhone 13 mini. Now before we go ahead and check out this tiny little device, go ahead and smash that subscribe button and notification icon on this video. Now I also want to give a big shout out to our sponsor of this video, J-Birds with the J-Bird Vistarts 2. Stay tuned for more information about them because they are actually pretty cool headphones. So the iPhone 13 mini, it is a small device. Honestly, it is quite quaint, if you will. Fits in the palm of my hand, like it's that small. For me, it's really, really small, I'm gonna say it again. But this is a device that a lot of people like the phone factor in size, 5.4 inches. It feels like it's very nice and poctable. And a lot of people are looking for devices like this who are iOS users. So of course it makes sense to see how well it performs with gaming, which is why Apple has the A15 processor in here. And that makes a lot of sense. You wanna give kind of the same functionality across the board for a lot of people. This also comes with four gigs of RAM and about a 2400 milliamp battery. The right number is on the screen for you to check out. So let's just jump into our very first game. And of course you guys know it's gonna be Call of Duty Mobile. I know some of you are gonna start complaining, but honestly Call of Duty Mobile is a good way to start as a benchmark. And I use game bench here to actually test this out. If you wanna use them, I have a link for you guys in the description of this video. So Call of Duty runs well. It does, it runs at 60 frames per second. We had the game running on its highest setting and it looked good, it played well. But honestly, it felt really smooth. I mean, just in general, which is nice. Now there's no promotion display on the mini, but performance was pretty nice. So I also went ahead and checked out a game on Apple Arcade, which is of course 2K21. Now 2K played well and do not mind the score on this though because I'm terrible, I was terrible at it. I was trying to focus on recording. But also ran at 59 frames per second. Solid 60 FPS, if you will. No dips in performance anywhere. Now the cool thing about the iPhone series this year is that Apple has done some improvements to the speakers. So let's take a quick listen, doing some gameplay on how the speakers sound. On the iPhone 13 mini, they do a good job. But they're not as good I would say as the other iPhone 13 devices, which is why I would recommend you use True Wireless Buds for your gaming experience. And speaking of True Wireless Buds, our sponsor in this video is Jaybird. And I have the Jaybird Vista 2, which I have been using for a while. So it's not something that I don't use. And I can fully recommend them because the six millimeter drivers on them do a really good job for that gaming experience. You get the sound really well. Plus, the application allows you to do much more than just listen to music and customize EQs. You have different sound profiles, which you can use for different things. I have one for gaming. I've got one for working out. And speaking of working out though, this thing is durable. They call it air-proof durability. But honestly, it does a great job in the gym. I use it every time to work. I use it in a lot of places too. Like me, you know, walking around in the park and being aware of my surrounding because of the sound sense A and C and showing off my soccer skills. Well, at least whatever is left of it anyway. And the battery life is great at 24 hours with eight hours per Buds, five minutes of charge you give me in an hour. These are good pair of Buds to definitely pick up, especially with the iPhone 13 mini. So if you're going to do that, definitely head over to your JBordsports.com or your local Best Buy. And if you use the link down below, you'll get 10% off using the promo code. Now let's get back to what we do best here, which is gay. Next up is Genshin Impact. Ooh, this one was very, very interesting. So I play Genshin Impact on the iPhone 13 mini for roughly around 20 to 25 minutes. Within the first five minutes of gaming with Genshin Impact, my frames per second dropped drastically down. And by the time I played for an additional 15 minutes, I had my frames drop down to about 36 frames per second, which is unheard of. Now I'm playing the game at max settings, 60 FPS on the iPhone 13 mini. So I'll say this again, I know a lot of the games are not optimized yet for the A15. So that is one thing to take note, but I was expecting similar results to what I had in the Pro Max, which was a drop down to about 41 to 42 frames per second, not all the way down to the mid 30s. Now this also could be attributed to the fact that the iPhone 13 mini only has four GPU cores as opposed to more on the Pro and Pro Max. So the regular GPU cores definitely showcase here for a game like Genshin Impact, which is very graphically intensive. One thing I did notice is that my screen felt really hot. Now this was not the case with the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which has a bigger surface area. So I'm thinking because of the smaller screen size, you're gonna feel more heat on the screen. Now in terms of temperatures, we've got temperatures about 111 degrees Fahrenheit, about 43 to 44 degrees Celsius, similar again to the Pro Max. So we're having the same kind of temperatures, which means internals are the same. Cooling is practically the same for both devices, I feel, across the iPhone 13 lineup, so that's there. Now we're gonna end up with our last game, which would be PUBG Mobile. Now PUBG Mobile is a game that some people say, hey, play in Battle Royale and play for long periods of time. Also you can play on 90 frames per second. I know you can do that, but the average gamer is gonna pick it up, install and play. Now until it's optimized fully for 90 FPS or more, we will have to see that of course on the Pro Max. But anyway, on this device, I played PUBG Mobile for about 40 minutes. That was as long as my Battle Royale game play session was. And it ran well. It ran well on smooth extreme 59 frames per second. There was no dip whatsoever. So it performed as it should very, very well. And I was quite impressed with that, especially for kind of the longer gameplay period, running to people left and right, trying to get killed, and also eventually winning. Yes, I won my chicken dinner. It's been a while since I've done that on PUBG, honestly. So yeah, that was actually pretty cool. But that means that this performed well enough for me to go ahead and do that quite well. Now the other thing of course some of you would ask me is what about game streaming services? So I went ahead and tried out Xbox Game Pass. Games ran at 60 FPS. That wasn't the issue. And it ran also very well. The one thing I will note though to you guys, and I know a few people have mentioned this before, is the screen did dim down while I was playing Xbox Game Pass, which is roughly around about an hour and a half to two hours of gaming. And this happened with my Pro Max as well. That kind of dropped down the display basically just dimmed down when it was about maybe, I believe it was about three hours of gaming or four. So it's a slightly different time frames, but it did dim down even though my brightness was at the max resolution, or max setting. So that is something that has to do with extended gameplay periods. Now the mini works well. No issues with the backbone, doesn't fall out or anything. So if you're gaming with a backbone, it's absolutely fine. But besides even that though, I really love this green case on the iPhone 13 mini. It is so nice. I know you guys can see it clearly, but it's a lovely case. It's really nice soft silicone filter. Honestly, if you're looking for a case, that's also a good one to pick up for your iPhone 13 mini. Look, the four cores, especially for a graphic intensive game, we're gonna see some dips. Now I'm waiting for games like Genshin to be updated to run with the A15 and we'll of course run that again. But I can tell you that that's gonna show you some dip at some point. In terms of most of the other games, you're gonna be able to play them very fine. Now temperatures will rise up and I don't think it's gonna overheat because the iPhone tends to throw things down from what it seems, at least from the two cases I've seen, where your screen dims down, trying to make sure that your system does not overheat. Battery life. Battery life was better than the mini, but not great. So what I mean by better than me was better than the iPhone 12 mini last year. It completely drained by the time I started gaming. So so far with about two and a half hours of gaming, starting at 100%, I am down to about 70%. Now this is with some charging in here or there. So I'm looking at about a 20% loss, 20 to 25% loss or so, which for the mini compared to what I had last year is much better. So I would say you can game, but still have a charger on hand. So there you go guys. If you have any questions or any comments about gaming on the iPhone 13 mini, let me know or any other iPhone or Apple devices. I'll be covering gaming on the iPad mini as well. So stay tuned for that. And also take a look at the J-Birds Vista 2. Like I said, this is something I use myself. You guys can check them out. Use the link down below if you wanna pick one up or check it out at your local Best Buy. So this is Thundee E-Sane. Thank you, stay tuned, have a fun day and always enjoy your entertainment.