The recent big Apple event just finished, and they announced some things many people were expecting. One of the announcements was about the new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
These are brand-new phones that use the latest A17 chip. This chip can make games look and play as good as on a game console, which is something we haven’t seen before.
Elevating Mobile Gaming
All this fancy talk and technical stuff basically means one important thing: playing games on your phone will be much smoother, and the future of mobile gaming looks really bright.
Apple says the iPhone is the best phone for playing games, and that makes sense because they always focus on making their Pro phones great for gamers. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can also work with modern Bluetooth controllers like the PS5’s DualSense.
New Powerful GPU
Apple has introduced a new 6-core GPU for the A17 Pro, and they say it’s the biggest GPU change they’ve ever made. They claim it’s up to 20% faster than the old one and has cool new features like mesh shading and super-fast hardware-based ray tracing, which is four times quicker than the software version.
They’re really pushing this GPU as a big deal for gaming, and they’ve mentioned popular games like Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4, Death Stranding, and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Mirage, all of which will work on the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. Apple says that the A17 Pro is four times faster at handling ray tracing compared to the old way.
The A17 Pro chip is made using a 3 nanometer process and has a whopping 19 billion transistors, which makes everything run faster. The Neural Engine can now handle 35 trillion operations every second. Plus, they’re switching to USB-C connections, so you can use faster USB-3 controllers instead of the older USB-2 ones that worked with Lightning connections.
Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing
During the Apple event, they talked about how the iPhone 15 Pro lineup will be the first to have hardware-accelerated ray tracing thanks to the A17 Pro chip. This chip has a new Apple-designed shader setup with 6 cores and is up to 20% faster than the previous one. It’s also more efficient and better at mesh shading.
The new chip makes games look even more realistic. It’s also four times faster than the older A16 chip, which used software to make graphics.
Instead of guessing how light should look, ray tracing follows each little beam of light as it moves around in the virtual world. This makes things in the game or virtual world look super realistic, just like how light works in real life. People use ray tracing a lot in 3D worlds because it makes everything like it does in real world.
The software-based ray tracing was slow with less than 10 frames per second, while the hardware-accelerated ray tracing ran at a smooth 30 frames per second.
MetalFX Upscaling
Now, there’s something big coming to the Apple iPhone 15 Pro. It’s called MetalFX upscaling. This is something that’s been popular in computers and game consoles, and now it’s coming to smartphones. What it does is make games run faster and use less power, so your phone’s battery lasts longer when you’re playing games.
Apple says that with MetalFX, the iPhone 15 Pro series not only runs faster but also saves battery, giving you more time to enjoy your games. This MetalFX technology uses special parts in the phone called GPU cores and Neural Engine cores.
There are 16 of these cores, and they’re up to 2 times faster than the ones in the previous iPhone. They can do a lot of smart things, with a special AI power of up to 35 TOPs.
ProMotion
ProMotion displays on Apple devices refresh twice as fast as regular screens, making everything you do feel much smoother. When you scroll through TikTok, open apps, use gestures, watch animations, or anything else, it’s super responsive and fluid.
This faster refresh rate also helps a lot in gaming. It means the game responds quicker to your actions, so you can react faster. Apple’s ProMotion displays have a 120Hz refresh rate, which is twice as fast as the usual 60Hz screens. This makes all the movements and animations on your device much smoother.
If you’re used to 60Hz screens, you’ll notice a big difference. These ProMotion displays can also slow down their refresh rate to save battery. But if you feel like it’s still using up too much battery, you can set it to stay at 60Hz.
Apple Collaboration with Developers
Digging deeper into what the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can do, a person from Ubisoft named Fabrice Navarez said that their game, Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, which is coming out in 2024, will look better on these phones.
It will have clearer images, more dynamic lighting, and other cool visual effects compared to other phones. Other game makers also promised that their games will have better and fancier graphics, as well as overall better performance.
Play the Console Games
One really cool thing to note is that you can play console games like Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 (Remake) on the new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. This was shared by Tsuyoshi Kanda, who is the director at Capcom.
Also, the upcoming game Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be available for the iPhone Pro lineup, and it’s not a watered-down version like we sometimes see on mobile devices. It’s the same as what you’d play on a console or PC. This is great news because it brings console-level gaming closer to mobile devices.
The App Store
Apple also wants to mention that it has a really great App Store and gaming world. It’s a place where you can get awesome apps and games, and it works with some of the best controllers like the PS5’s Dual-Sense wireless controller.
When it comes to new games, Apple has a bunch in store. They’re teaming up with Ubisoft and Capcom to bring big games like Resident Evil IV Remake and Resident Evil VIII Village to iPhone gamers by the end of this year. There’s also a game called Death Stranding coming to iPhone 15 Pro series phones this year.
If you want to buy one of these phones, the starting price for the iPhone 15 Pro is $799 for the 128 GB version, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max starts at $999 for the 128 GB version. You can buy them all around the world starting on September 22.
Source: wccftech, makeuseof, videocardz
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