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iPhone 12 Requesting iPhone 12 Wild Mark benchmark

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leman

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To the lucky ones who already received their iPhone 12 (of any kind) — would you be so kind as to run the stress test of the new 3dmark Wild Life benchmark (available on the App Store for free) and post the result here (ideally as a picture)? Online reviews are showing up with very respectable scores, but nobody so far seems to do a stress test, I am curious as to whether the new iPhones throttle as much as their predecessors.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: to clarify, we are interested in the unlimited version of the benchmark as the regular one (with graphics) is essentially useless.
 
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Looks like at least 1 iPhone 12 has been added.
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Thanks! I managed to get a friend run Wild Wife on a iPhone 12:

benchmark score: 8650
stress test score: 6500
 
12 Pro here.

I didn’t do the stress test because that takes 20 minutes, sorry.

Weird how the iPhone 12 series has a lower score than the 11 series (atleast mine because your friend appears to have a 8650 score?)
 

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Thanks @bobmans The scores can be a bit jumpy since it's likely that your new phone is doing something in the background. The first round of scores will be unreliable. My friend and me did the tests under more controlled conditions, so I think our results should be accurate. Your score is consistent with what we were getting after 20 minutes.

It really seems that this year Apple went for energy efficiency instead performance improvements. Which makes perfect sense as Apple is approximately at least 50% ahead than any other phone currently on the market. Even after initial performance trolled down, the iPhone 12 is still faster in this gaming benchmark than the 13" MacBook Pro...
 
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bobmans said:
12 Pro here.

I didn’t do the stress test because that takes 20 minutes, sorry.

Weird how the iPhone 12 series has a lower score than the 11 series (atleast mine because your friend appears to have a 8650 score?)
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Not done the stress test either, but I think he have switched the scores, since I 6559 on my 12 Pro, which is in line with your result.
 
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Not done the stress test either, but I think he have switched the scores, since I 6559 on my 12 Pro, which is in line with your result.
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I didn't switch the scores. Stress test just repeats the benchmark 20 times. The first run was consistently ~8600, then it eventually stabilizes around 6500. Quite interesting though that you are getting the stabilized score from the go.
 
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I didn't switch the scores. Stress test just repeats the benchmark 20 times. The first run was consistently ~8600, then it eventually stabilizes around 6500. Quite interesting though that you are getting the stabilized score from the go.
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Ok. I tried disabling zoom and colour filters in accessibility settings, but that didn't really matter, still got around 6600. Tried with zoomed setting and even though the screen got smaller it didn't matter on the score.

Maybe it is because I have a cover on it and it doesn't dissipate heat so well.
 
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Ok. I tried disabling zoom and colour filters in accessibility settings, but that didn't really matter, still got around 6600. Tried with zoomed setting and even though the screen got smaller it didn't matter on the score.

Maybe it is because I have a cover on it and it doesn't dissipate heat so well.
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I don’t have a case on my phone and also had the 6.6k score. I don’t think my phone is still doing background tasks (indexing photo’s and w/e the phone does after being set up) since I had it since Friday.

Indeed very interesting how there’s a disparity in the initial scores.
Only explanation I can think of is a software issue perhaps.

I’m running the stress test now to see if it throttles down or is consistent at 6.6k. Will report back in 20' :)
 
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I’m running the stress test now to see if it throttles down or is consistent at 6.6k. Will report back in 20' :)
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Really curious! Please do :) I am starting t think whether my friend might have won the silicon lottery here :)
 
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Really curious! Please do :) I am starting t think whether my friend might have won the silicon lottery here :)
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I think he might have haha
 

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Done on iPhone 12 Pro 128GB. New phone with nothing installed, no SIM card. In a thin case. "Stabilized" for about 2 days. Test run on normal mode (not the Unlimited setting).


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Thanks for all that! Indeed it seems that the scores we were getting are the odd ones. So for all of you the iPhone 12 already starts out "throttled" but doesn't actually throttle afterwards. I suppose it makes sense — better user experience this way, and the performance is still excellent.

Either way, it does look more and more like Apple is putting more strict limits on the power usage to conserve the battery.
 
Have you guys tried running the unlimited version? It isn't immediately clear what resolution the normal version runs versus the unlimited version. But in the unlimited version the score is higher.
 
Ah, you were not running the unlimited setting? Silly me, I should have mentioned that... Yeah, the regular (not unlimited) variant of the benchmark is practically useless since you will be capped by the screen refresh rate. The scores I was mentioning are using the unlimited setting.
 
I'll run an unlimited Stress Test and post results shortly. Btw, I tried a stress test while charging the battery (on regular mode) and results were all over the place... very odd. Maybe due to heat management? I'll post those results as well...
 
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Ah, you were not running the unlimited setting? Silly me, I should have mentioned that... Yeah, the regular (not unlimited) variant of the benchmark is practically useless since you will be capped by the screen refresh rate. The scores I was mentioning are using the unlimited setting.
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Getting same scores as you on the ultimate (8.9k). Guess your friend didn't win the silicon lottery ;)
 
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My score of 8695 looks low now 🤬...

Did a hard reset, closed all apps... tried again and I'm getting consistent results of 8320-8370. Perhaps it's because my phone is only 128GB...

~8580 after letting the phone settle for 10 minutes.
 
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