iPhone 12 iPhone 12 A14 Running Hot and Thermal Throttling Issues?

[RayLancer]

The A14 chip is no doubt one of the fastest chips out there, but it seems like it has issues keeping that sustained performance for any extended amount of time due to thermal issues. I wonder if this is partially contributing to battery life being worse on some tests in reviews. I got curious and looked around and I'm going to link stuff I found. I wonder if anyone else has issues.

I understand there's limitations to devices without any active cooling features, but the iPhone 12 seems to get really hot fast if you push it and you can start to see the thermal throttle, at least compared to my Xr when I had it. I play stuff like Genshin Impact, and I do notice it seems to have performance issues with the framerate moreso than my Xr with the same settings (medium, 30FPS mode).

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[richard371]

When I got my 12 Pro on release Friday I thought it was done downloading and indexing by sat am but it seems it was still downloading my 17k photos up until Monday am. I could tell by how the free memory size was dropping. I just ran the antutu and geekbench benchmarks and it barley got warm at all. Same with recording a 4 min 4k60FPS HDR video. It seems fine but I do not play intense games. I'm on 14.2. Only weird thing (there is a thread on this) is that occasionally when I Swype up on an app to close (not force close) there is sometimes a little animation stutter. Personally I find this a bit annoying and I'm hoping it will be fixed in an update. Seems to be a 12/12Pro issue only.

 

[JPack]

Thermal throttling has been a big issue since A11. Anandtech reviews usually cover the topic well with benchmarks.

In general, Apple increases clock speed and/or core count with every node shrink. So unlike popular belief, processor power consumption increases each year.

 

[M5RahuL]

I don't see it getting too warm, but definitely warmer than my XS and doesn't need to be stressed out either... basic YT videos or extended web browsing makes it a bit warm.

 

[Leon88]

I'm on the Xr and am definitely experiencing thermal throttling on it after about 30 minutes of Genshin Impact (probably the most graphically demanding title i've seen so far). Funny thing is, if I play on my Xr in front of a table fan, it doesn't thermal throttle at all and gameplay is fluid throughout. I'm running the game on everything low except shadows set to medium, FPS set at 60. Sad to hear thermal throttling is still an issue on A14, guess the table fan stays haha