It seems the phone throttles by CPU and not the GPU

Oyongx

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Jun 17, 2012
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After getting this phone, i immediately abuses the phone. Play Asphalt 9 (yes i have the data,obb, and the APK from previous device so i can install and run it just fine), PUBG, Cytus 2, Shadowgun Legends and Honkai Impact 3. Turn the settings which enable fast 60 fps and dropping unnecessary graphics settings.

Here's the Antutu before the phone gets heated


Then after abusing the phone for pretty much more than 1 hour, i've noticed a little bit of fps drop in game. The game is still totally playable. Decided to run antutu again and here's the result.


After that, i went outside where it's ridiculously hot then continue playing those games. Yes, it's still capable of hitting mostly smooth 30+ fps. Some games like Shadowgun Legends and honkai impact experience fluctuating fps between 30-60, mostly below 40-ish while 30 fps games like pubg and asphalt 9 mostly stable. The battery reach 45 C and decided to run antutu. Here's the result of that:
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As we can see, the GPU does not drop at all. However the CPU sides do take a hit. I wonder why they decided to drop the CPU instead of GPU? I dont mind dropping few graphic settings to achieve 60 fps all the time. Wonder if this can be modified through some sort thermal.conf or whatever controlling the device's temp. Does this mean the CPU generate more heat than GPU? Kinda confused.
 

sanjay0501

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Off topic.
But what I have been wondering is with top notch memory (ram) LPDDR4x 1866, latest gen, how come Antutu scores say defeated 40-45% users whereas all other departments is near or over 80%
 

Oyongx

Senior Member
Jun 17, 2012
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Off topic.
But what I have been wondering is with top notch memory (ram) LPDDR4x 1866, latest gen, how come Antutu scores say defeated 40-45% users whereas all other departments is near or over 80%
Unfortunately, im not sure how antutu calculate memory score since i know nothing about it. Antutu might not be the best software to gauge memory performance, i think.
 
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