Can the iPhone 8 Match the PS4? #Helpful Post

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