Smartphone makers sing the praises of game modes on their phones, but these tricks don't really improve the gaming experience as you'd expect.
Gaming phones have gotten a bad rep for being expensive pieces of overpowered hardware that barely offer any tangible upgrades in gaming performance compared to ‘normal’ flagships. However, there’s another aspect to selling smartphones that almost every company — except Apple — is engaged in.
Additionally, I made sure that there were no background apps, screen brightness and resolution were set to max, and the refresh rate was set to the adaptive mode for dynamically reaching up to 120Hz. At the end of my testing, I came away surprised in a disappointing way. Just take a look at the table below to draw your own conclusion:
Impacts on temperature and battery life I also monitored how these tricks affected battery consumption patterns and their thermals. Again, there was no discernible difference. For example, the average rise in CPU temperature after a 30-minute session of playing a graphics-intensive game — both with and without game mode — stood at 5-6 degrees on the Celcius scale in a room cooled at 24 degrees Celcius.
There are many reasons for that. Mobile games are still more of a casual experience, and burdening players with a ton of complicated presets is simply not the best strategy. It’s less about available silicon firepower and pushing it to its limits, and more about firing up a game and having a good time.
In a reasonable world, I shouldn’t have to, especially on a flagship phone. After all, the whole point of shelling $1000+ on a flagship phone is to make sure that you don’t have to fiddle with something like a game booster to enjoy a game at 60fps with the best quality graphics on an OLED screen. Everything is supposed to ‘just work,’ and it often does.
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