Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin a few years ago I compared the Xbox 360 to the then-new iPhone 6 and the results were surprisingly close but with the iPhone 8 coming out today how does it stack up to a modern console like the ps4 first let's take a look at what's inside the iPhone 8 as well as the iPhone 10 the Apple a 11 Bionic chip the a series of SOC s have kind of been on top of the game for a while now and the a11 is no exception so compared to the iPhone 7 which only had a pair of high performance cores that were available for games the iPhone 8 as well as 10 both have not only upgrade high performance cores you also have for low power cores that can all be used together essentially what this means is that when you're gaming the iPhone 8 in the iPhone 10 have a 6 core processor that's not the entire story though the a 11 is rocking a brand new Apple design GPU now this is the first previous iPhones going all the way back to the original use some sort of imagination design whereas here they've designed their own triple core GPU all this is built on TSM C's latest 10 nanometer process which means that the a11 has a fairly impressive 4.3 billion transistors now compare this to the ps4 which I designed it was originally launched in 2013 so this is using a custom AMD based APU which it only has eight CPU cores but also a fairly sizable GPU on the processor side the ps4 and the Xbox one have very similar designs so essentially well you do have eight cores they're pretty weak so based on ambe's Jaguar tech they're going to be fine from normal use sort of on their own but when you combine eight of them in a single console it gives you pretty good performance the ps4 also has a still impressive radeon GPU which is backed up by eight gigabytes of fast gddr5 memory so back of the envelope math shows that the iPhone CPU is significantly quicker than the ps4 somewhere in the neighborhood of about 40 percent faster however when you take a look at graphics it is a very different story the iPhone only has about 20% of the graphics power of the ps4 that is a huge difference now the iPhone is outputting to a much smaller display which does give it a little bit of leeway as far as the graphics power but you do have to keep in mind that all this is inside a seven millimeter thick chassis so with only about five watts of TDP it has to dissipate all that through the metal and glass design compare that to the ps4 which has about 90 watts to work with and it has heatsink fans vents a lot of stuff that essentially means that the laws of physics are in the ps4 favor of course on paper specs are one thing but let's see how actual games compare first off we have the witness a ps4 game that was recently ported to iOS take a look to see the differences between the two systems what you should notice is that it is essentially the full experience on both devices iPhone version is running at a noticeably lower resolution which should be a huge surprise considering that's on a phone screen and well yes the graphics settings are not to the same level of the ps4 but the content is absolutely there and honestly it doesn't look hugely different now I did notice a couple of rendering issues on the iPhone 8 but honestly once it gets an actual patch to support the eight hopefully these will be eliminated next we have transistor which is another game that will run cross-platform here again the iPhone resolution is a bit lower and the graphics have been bumped down a notch but it's still totally playable and honestly not a huge difference between the ps4 version now especially when you do pair it with a gamepad it really is a very similar gameplay experience now minecraft runs on basically everything on earth but how did the ps4 an iPhone version stack up this is one of the better comparisons for the iPhone not only is a resolution a lot closer to what you're getting with the ps4 but the graphics settings are similar and especially once you pair it with a controller it feels very similar especially with that locked 60 frames per second continue on the minecraft train we have minecraft story mode a classic telltale game that of course is going to be running on both the iPhone as well as the ps4 you can notice some differences here so now are the settings going to be lower but also is definitely not running at that full 1080p of the ps4 but yet again is completely playable on both systems although with this one I would definitely take the ps4 if I had the option to really see what both systems can do let's take a look at some exclusive games that just simply take better advantage of the hardware so when the ps4 horizon zero dawn is a huge leap over anything that's available on the iPhone the level of detail actual graphics of course the gameplay is seriously worth that $60 on the other hand there are certain games that simply are better suited to the iPhone stuff like Monument Valley now it looks great but also takes great advantage of the touch controls and games like oz broken Kingdom do a really good job of leveraging the power of that a 11 check like I mentioned earlier one of the downsides to having this much power in such a small device is always going to be heat you don't have those fans and vents be able to pull it away as you have to fully rely on the glass metal build to dissipate all the heat from the device now I'll have to do some more thorough testing but at least based on first impressions the iPhone 8 does pretty well here she wondered an extended 30-minute gaming load the back of the device actually doesn't even get that warm so is the iPhone 8 as powerful as the ps4 no to be fair it is catching up surprisingly quickly and for some games the experience isn't far off but the laws of physics mean that for this time the dedicated game console is going to win out so what do you guys think about the power of the iPhone 8 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one