 Hey guys, Thundee here, and welcome back to the video you've been waiting for, gaming on the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. Yes, I know you guys have been waiting for this, it's finally here. Now before we move ahead, big shout out to our sponsor for this video, Speegan, they've got great accessories for your iPhone 14 Pro, just the iPhone 14 series line in general, and some we'll see here in this video. So yeah, I know you guys have been waiting, I apologize, it's taking a little bit because I ran into an issue. I cannot show you FPS benchmarks on any of the games other than Apex Legends because my benchmark tool, Gamebench, doesn't have support yet for the iPhone 14 because this video is before launch by the way, so once it gets updated I'll do that. Now some of you also suggested PerfDog, I did try that and I ran into the very same issue. So I decided look, I'm gonna talk about some of like the innate benchmarks with Geekbench, we'll show some gameplay, we'll listen to some audio, and then we'll talk about certain things on the device and then we'll look at what at least Apex gets us right there. Now before we even move ahead, let's talk about the display. Now we have Dynamic Island, that's something that's new and quite interesting for a lot of people. You're going, how will that affect your gameplay? Honestly, it really doesn't. I mean for me I usually have of course the notch on the left hand side and it might cover up some menus while you're navigating but it doesn't really hinder your gameplay in any way. Speaking of this display in general though, ProMotion is smooth, it feels like butter, playing your shooters really works well and I like the fact that the, you know, the maximum brightness of 1600, yes, not 2000 outdoors, is great. Now this kind of brings me to the first thing I wanna talk about from speaking, that is the Glass TR Easy Fit. I like it because you need to protect that and honestly you guys didn't know I was using it right here. That's how good, thin and durable it is. I like it because it's kept my iPhones protected over the years, I will always use it and definitely should pick it up. So let's jump into our very first benchmark reading, that is from Geekbench 5 and we're looking at our CPU scores for both devices. Here you can clearly see that the iPhone 14 Pro beats out the iPhone 14 Pro Max but slightly. You know, you can see the single core and the multi-core scores right there. Pretty solid overall and probably the highest you see from any device currently on the market. Now looking of course at the compute scores, again the 14 Pro beats out the 14 Pro Max right there but some really impressive scores overall. So I definitely like that. Let's move over to some gameplay because that's what you guys came to see here. So called UD Mobile, we can play at, you know, ultra settings and medium which is probably the highest I've seen and it looked and felt really smooth. You guys saw it for yourself. What do you think there? I liked it. It was really nice plus the audio and you're going to see it as a recurrent theme as you look at more gameplay. Audio was really great. Now in terms of temperatures called UD Mobile, it was like 102 which is actually not bad but a little higher than I expected. Going over to Genshin Impact which of course is our temperature demon. I played this game for about 30 minutes or so and here I got some really solid gameplay. I ran there at 60 frames per second. I can't of course show you what it was but it ran pretty small. There were a few hiccups here and there but nothing too crazy but it felt standard from what I could expect. Now when it comes to temperatures here though I got temperatures about 112 which actually is improvement from last year where I was getting about 114 to 117 on the iPhone 13 Pro Max. So I like that improvement in temps but 112 is still a little bit high for me. Why, this is why I love that of course cryo armor case. Now that is my favorite case that I've used from Spigen on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. I loved it because it helped bring temperatures down and in this case here it will do exactly the same thing. So it has the Arctic Flow technology with graphite and silicon to help absorb heat. And then you've got that air cube pattern that basically allows for better ventilation for your devices, which is pretty great. Plus you do have nice bumpers around. So this will protect it from drops and falls as well. But the great thing is running another temperature read after I actually gained with this. I got temperatures at 107. So at least I got a nice reduction of about four to five here in terms of degrees. This is all in Fahrenheit. I liked it. And definitely if you're playing any other game you get much lower temperatures using this case. Really solid overall. All right, PUBG Mobile ran really well at of course smooth extreme as you would expect. Felt really smooth, good gameplay. And again, great audio from this. Now when we play that Ultra HD Ultra, it felt it looked a little jittery to me. But that's just something I would have to measure and see, but that's usually around 40 frames per second there. I don't know what you guys thought. Think about the gameplay there at my Ultra HD Ultra. Now moving over to Apex Legends, the one game that we can actually get benchmarks from. I definitely ran it at the recommended settings and I got 40 frames per second on there. Again, it played well, really smooth. I really like Apex Legends Mobile is a nice game to play. Then I also ran it at least the highest setting. I went to the Ultra and I got 60 frames per second. This was great because I was able to see this push to a nice solid frame rate. I haven't seen this yet from other devices, but I'll go ahead and check. I do like the fact that it ran really well for both. So you can see that the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max do a really good job in actually playing games as well as you like. Now when we move over to Game Streaming Server 6, Xbox Game Pass and Stadia both played well. Game Pass playing Wildlands, that actually was really solid. I loved the fact that I actually game pretty well and I was able to play without issues. Same thing with Mortal Kombat on Stadia, that also played very well. Now you guys can see I'm using two controllers here. Both are Game Mobile Controllers, one is Backbone, the other is Razer Keyshie V2. The main thing I wanted to check here with these two is would they actually fit properly with the new improved cameras on the 14 Pro Max, especially with the slightly bigger bump and it's still there to fit. So I like that there with both the Backbone and Razer Keyshie V2, whichever one works for you. You can go ahead and check those out. Now you probably wondering what about battery life, especially this gaming session. So I started off playing the Pro Max for about an hour. I started at 96% and I got down to about 77. Wow, with the iPhone 14 Pro, I started at 99 and in about 45 minutes of gameplay, I got down to about 77%. So really solid then, I liked the way it handled. Plus, if you're gonna be gaming for a while, you definitely need a charger. Something Apple just doesn't provide and that's why I would also recommend the Arc Station chargers. Now they've got the 352, which is a charger that does 30 watt supports, the new charging speeds for the Pro and Pro Max and then you've also got the 452 and the 652. I personally like to use the 652 because I can use it to charge both devices and I can also use it to charge as well like my MacBook or my laptop, this kind of thing and it kind of brings everything together. So the iPhone 14 and 14 Pro Max, from what I can see, do a really good job at gaming. Temperatures have come down, which is great. I'm glad to see that that's there. It's not super high, but it's still high. But the audio quality, pro motion looks pretty fantastic and I know guys, I'm sorry, you couldn't get to see FPS counters for all the games but I promise I will have that video for you showing you how, of course, they perform against the competition from Snapdragon and MediaTek. But in the meantime though, if you just got your iPhone 14 Pro Max or the 14 Pro, you wanna set it up in eSIM, go check out that video out there and if you wanna see a full speaker test against also the Galaxy and the Z Fold 4, then check that as well. Stay tuned guys and enjoy entertainment.