Fastest Android EVER vs iPhone! 

It's almost like taking a life decision while choosing between mkbhd and Arun when they upload at the same time.

Doing benchmarks with and without the cooler would have been nice. Just to also see how much the cooler changes.

The amount of detailing Asus have done with ROG this time is INSANE.

The ROG phones have two USB ports. On the ROG 7, the side port is for fast charging. You used the slower bottom port. It also appears you didn't have X-mode turned on. When X Mode is turned on, it improves hardware efficiency and removes background apps to release memory, in order to optimize gaming experience. Someone didn't read the manual first.

Great comparison. But as said by others: the gaming category was poorly tested. The game is clearly a CPU heavy program while other titles are far more about graphics which probably would benefit from ROG's GPU. It would be interesting how LTT would design such a test, since they're quite experienced in terms of gaming.

Watching Arun literally feels like he loves what he’s doing and maybe the exact reason why he’s successful in youtube. Not many people can do what they love to do and earn a living at the same time. You are very blessed indeed Arun and so are we your viewers.

We really need a third phone OS to shake up the market 🤔

I use the rog 6 and find it to be one of the best phones I have ever used. It's great for gaming using the trigger buttons and pretty good as an all rounder. Will definitely look into getting one of these ones.

Nice one, but try running heavier apps & games and see which one's more stable in the long run. Also the heat problem, where it is located on the phone including the back & front panel. Still, a great comparison video!

Categories you missed: - long term full load - PROPER INTERNET TEST. You tested 2 phones on same router. It was decided by router which phone would receive more packets - Thermal test: which would be cooler during charging and under heavy load - construction strength and Repairability

I think you should also do a test with older phones to see how they behave over time. I have a P6P and for several months the zoom camera no longer focuses except in daylight. Wasn't it normal to work the same as on the first day? In addition, I could give maximum zoom to make a kind of macro with her help, now she tells me to back off if I want her to focus. What guarantees do those with P7P have that they will not suffer the same next year after the release of P8P? And so on.

Good comparison video, but the choice of game for the gaming test was very strange. You don't choose a CPU intensive game to test the GPU and FPS numbers (unless that game has an option to pass the calculations to the GPU). There are some games that depend on CPU a lot, but most games usually are GPU-bound.

Phones evolve, but the quality of Arun's content evolves even faster.

To be honest both cpu are good enough to not notice any difference exept in games but games use more gpu nowadays so the performance is still better I feel like the ROG got a dub there

If you are testing the wifi speeds simultaneously, then you will probably get unreliable results, it will depend on how your router divides up the bandwidth more than it will depend on the capabilities of the phone.

He should have done a sustained performance test. I heard the bionic chipset throttles pretty quickly and The rog 7 would have probably come out on top.

There's massive room for improvement in test methodology you have followed for each of your tests. For instance, when batteries are different capacity you have to rely on dynamic discharge current and charge current capacities. etc.. for comparing wifi tests again you could have connected one phone at a time to same wifi and completely turn off your other devices that use internet and also looking at which phone is clocking to 2.4/5G bandwidths more so overall good video but definitely coming from a tech savvy person like you would make a difference if these things are taken care of whilst doing one on one comparison.

Would like to see how fast the rog charges when using the side port, which is full power and bandwidth.

Nice review, Mr. Arun! I always looking forward to today's technology! 📱✨ Asus' ROG phones keeps getting better, that it competes the aspects of the IPhone! Goosebumps!!! 😱🤯 Watching from Philippines! 🇵🇭

it's really so pleasant to say that now we can just choose phones what we want to. there's not so many differences.

That was a great, really well-rounded comparison. A little unfortunate that you weren't aware that increasing objects in a game like that is actually totally a CPU-specific task though lol. Really doesn't have much to do with graphics at all. Not a lot of games would have that type of bottleneck

I think it is pretty clear to see that the iPhone does stretch out the 90+ % range on the battery, it started off looking like it would win soundly, but then it just plummeted after what looked like 93 % but it may have been higher since the video restarted about 93 %.

Interesting watching videos on the latest phones. I've kept my S20 Plus for coming up to two years now and I can't justify changing it - 120hz, 1TB storage (SD), almost no bezels. The only issue is security updates and battery, though I've got used to doing a midday charge. I have to compromise but not like in years before where that compromise was enough to make me change. Weird times for me.

Muy interesante, siempre me ha gustado realizar comparaciones.

I have the ROG 6 Pro and again, I wouldnt change it for anything. There are some features that are (I find) hugely beneficial with this ROG. It has a headphone jack. There is a usb -c port in the side of the phone also for charging. The ability that when playing games with the charger plugged in, you can bypass charging the battery and power the game that you are playing only. There are two pressure shoulder buttons on the side of the phone that can be programmed for use outside of gaming. I have one of them to turn on the torch and the other to record audio at any moment. There is also the option to have the phone record all the calls that you make and receive without third party nonsense. Double tapping the back of the phone is also a programmable setting to active functions such as screenshot/record/light/multimedia etc. Not to mention the asus software for all these hardware perks, is simply on point. Can't fault it.

Thanks for this, never heard of the ROG phone, not a gamer but I've been actively looking for an interesting Android phone the past few weeks, so I'll check it out more. I find iPhones just kind of boring 🤷🏼‍♀they don't inspire me, stable but dull.

My jaw DROPPED when I saw the battery test. Great video Arun! 👍

Comparing the games can be hard. When it's natively written for both, it can depend on the teams familiarity with both, and if it's in a cross platform compiler there can be issues in that compiling for both. I believe Apple has Swift which allows native iOS performance and a kind of "good enough" port to android (why would apple want the port to be legitimately good?). It can impact a user's decision for the games they play, but can't really be used to judge the phone as a whole without knowing these implementation details of any particular game.

I gotta say I've been using my ROG 6 for the last half a year and it's just been phenomenal. My only gripe is that, in general, I wish Android cameras were better including my ROG 6's camera. But this is the closest Androids have gotten to Apple so far and if I really wanted the best camera on an Android I'd probably go for the S23. Other than that, this phone just blows it out of the park for me. Edit) can't spell.

Nice comparison, just note about the battery charging, the faster plug on Rog phone is the one in the middle, you used the normal one while doing the test.

At this point, it's an annual ritual for us to watch Arun go bonkers over an ROG phone whenever a new version is released. Fun times. May this always last.

I also love playing BTD6, however it is indeed a very CPU heavy game, where my laptop with an rtx 3060 barely uses the gpu in order to run the game, instead heavily focusing on the cpu (using nvdia overlay and task manager)

I think the benchmarks on the rog should have been done with both the cooler on and cooler off, and see the difference and how it compares with the iPhone. Despite the cooler coming in the box, you’re not going to be using it all the time, and so I think it would be important to know

This video was so interesting, thank you so much!! Something I also look at before buying a phone is it’s durability - I would’ve also wondered if the ROG screen is easy to break or on the contrary is stronger than apple’s solid screen.

it would be interesting to add another category like value where long term usage reliability and performance are taken in hand with the current market of phones and the rate of improvement they would have with the price of the device itself

@mrwhosetheboss Hey for the charging comparison the iPhone doesn’t always charge at their max of 20W,27W,etc because of a default setting (slower charging for bs reasons). Settings->battery->battery health& charging-> Turn off both Optimized battery charging/clean energy charging. If you didn’t already have these off it’s definitely worth testing, maybe the difference in charging time won’t be as significant. I game & use these settings to avoid bs that comes with slow charging while playing like overheating. Thanks

Some comparison felt kinda nitpicked in favor of the iPhone to be honest, like choosing that specifically cpu intensive game that practically doesn't use the gpu at all, but it was a nice review overall

Actually the primary charging port for the rog phone is the one on the side so it would actually charge faster than what was shown in the video

Not having to skip the entry of videos is a big plus and this guy manages to do it, I never get bored watching his videos, he explains so detailed and in an entertaining way, good job my man

I've been using ROG 6 Pro... it's extremely good...I use it at 165hz with Animated themes, play Genshin at Highest Graphics, one of the best feature is Armoury Crate... Camera is better than the reviews I've heard from YT tbh...Side Charging point is extremely advantageous when gaming. Overheating is High and the aeroactive cooler works great at that. Air Triggers works great with shooting games such as CODM, Audiowizard is great as well....

I just switched from Iphone 13 Pro Max to Asus ROG Phone 6D Batman edition and don't regret it. Battery and display are better camera was better on iphone but I'm not really into photography. But when it comes to gaming you have to take into consideration the Air triggers and the Armory software from the Asus which gives it some nice comfort functions. And makes up for the lack of optimization.

So for the bloons test, a GPU's job is to prep the graphical aspects of the game (what you can see). The CPU does everything that you can't see. If the CPU benchmarks showed that the iPhone was ahead, then it's natural that the iPhone would do a better job on Bloons where there are millions of calculations to do that are CPU bound. That's why there was more lag present on the ROG phone in comparison. I don't know if there are enough graphically intensive games on the phones that would allow for the ROG to show how strong it is yet, which is why I don't think the overall gaming performance on a phone matters that much current gen but I don't play many mobile games so.

Blown away by this review your amazing, everything about your reviews is always on point, just top quality. As for the way you present your stuff I think you missed out on the

The Bionic chip CPU will always lead the pack, might fall behind in terms of GPU. That ROG phone is perfect for playing Minecraft with 64 (max) chunks render distance while maintaining 60fps (as it has 16GB of superfast ram)

Just wanted to lyk, i love watching these comparison videos!! Really helps u understand the difference and it's genuinely fun. But I feel like if you were to rate the phones in addition to picking between the two for each category, it would give them a better overall comparison (even if that score is somewhere in the corner). For example, lets say u give one phone a 8 and another a 7.5 for one category and for the next category u give the first phone a 2 and the second one a 9. If u just simply pick between them it might show that they are equal, but when u compare the total scores u will see a big difference!!

in regard to gaming performance comparison, I believe it was a bit unfair to compare a game that is not exactly gpu intensive but more cpu intensive, perhaps a gpu intensive should also be compared for better outcomes...

Its easier for developers to design apps on ios because there aren’t a lot of variations between hardware and software compared to android os that has multiple phone manufacturers using them and coding it to fit their specific device and hardware. Thats why apps that can take photos to post on their platform seem to perform better on ios devices. With an ios device the app can use the camera and its software to take the photos but on androids its easier for the app to take a screenshot than code the app to each android device’s specifications to use the camera

Ok with this video you definitely helped me decide on ROG PRO 7, I've been thinking about the last two weeks which one to decide and in the end I just have him ROG PRO 7,thank you very much because I'm 100% sure to buy it, of course if it's in stores, if don't i have to go online shop which does not give me a lot of confidence in it, i dont trust much in online shoping now this days, dont pay off

I'm actually shocked about SOT time of ROG. It's quite... CRAZY!

I'm curious if the laggy-ness of Bloons was actually more bound by the capabilities of the game engine rather than the phones. You could totally test this by seeing if there's any fairly noticeable difference in something like a 12 PM and 14 PM, since they're years apart now. Would definitely watch the comparison if you decided to throw it in a short or something.

I bought the ROG 5 a couple years ago now and I think its an amazing phone for $711. Much underrated at the time of release

I would be curious to see how ROG goes against Samsung s 23 ultra

Well you can increase the speed of swipe animations in Asus rog phone to the point that it's ridiculously above the competition in terms of smoothness. And speakers can be even more beefy and powerful if we put everything to the max in equalizer and increase the bass and treble.

I find the gaming phones tend to do much better in longer sessions as the iPhone begins to throttle.

The fact that Arun puts in much effort in the video is so enticing I don't think there is any other tech TRvidr who moves around explaining every single bit of the phone as this guy

would be nice to also have a comparison without cooler, even if it is included. I don't think everyone wants to carry it around, and it also isn't the reason why I would want a gaming phone.

Qualcomm did an impressive job with its new chip. In CPU they are still behind but it is because they continue to use the design of ARM, in the next chip that they are going to launch they will design their own CPUs, so they will most likely revasse Apple for the first time. They design their own GPUs, and it's almost twice as powerful as the A16, so...

From my understanding, high refresh rates aren't really noticable unless you are doing something that requires high reaction rates from the user. Can't really appreciate it unless you use it in the right circumstances.

While comparing the network test you didn't turn on the dual band connection of Asus ROG phone which was one of the features which makes your network really stable and faster and also I guess you didn't turn on X mode while testing games on ROG which was especially designed for better performance while gaming 🙃

Imagine if bro did the durability test. 😳

Okay, but I literally cant change my phone because im too broke.

It would be interesting to compare modern budget phones to older flagships like the Galaxy S8/9/10

Usually for FPS, most users are relying on FPS when it comes to games, not the home screen or its animations. Some games will have a maximum FPS it can provide as long as the phone support it. If the game supports at max 120 same with the phone, some games if it detects lag, gpu dropped, it will lower the FPS to somewhere near 120 but if the phone supports 160, it will stay at 120 since the phone can support 160. But for the overall display, I totally agree that apple won that since they have a much controlled ui compared to android which is customizable. But for Gaming enthusiast, maximum FPS of the device is important, since you can use the maximum FPS the game can support without worrying of any FPS drops from the game, as long as the device have higher FPS compared to the game.

I’m a die hard apple fan and I stand by their phones and always preferred them over anything else but I might actually switch and I will always trust this guy’s opinion. Honestly I thought my 128 gb of storage was a lot but 512? I wouldn’t even use half of that.

The margin between the ROG CPU and the iPhone CPU isn't nearly as big as the margins between the two GPUs. ROG scores 5617 vs 6280 for the iPhone in the multicore CPU test. Whereas the iPhone scores 3540 in the GPU test compared to the 6336 for the ROG. Same goes for the overall score where the iPhone scored 930K and the ROG scored 1323K. So the one test that the iPhone wins has a margin of 12% in favour of the iPhone. Yet the tests where the ROG phone wins have margins of over 50% in favour of the ROG phone. To me saying that the marginal performance advantage for the CPU in the iPhone is sufficient to equalise the overall performance differences to the extend where the category is a draw is just ridiculous. Yes the iPhone CPU is 12% faster than the ROG CPU. But the iPhone GPU is barely half of the ROG phone GPU and so is overall performance. Same goes for the comparison using Bloons, which is notoriously a CPU bound game. It's almost as if you purposely picked a game that doesn't take advantage of the ROG phone's hardware, to make the iPhone look better. Rather than actually running a number of games and doing a proper test. Also the ROG 7 Ultimate is an 1199 euro phone in my country, whereas the iPhone 14 Pro that you've been showing, starts at 1449 euro if you want the 512GB model. So it's 350 euro more to buy the iPhone. Which only really manages to provide a better camera and marginally better screen. But loses in every other way. It's slower in games, it's much more expensive, the sound is worse, the battery doesn't last as long, it charges slower. Is it worth changing platforms over? Probably not. The amount of hassle involved in changing platforms is insane. The sheer inconvenience of having to jump through a thousand and one hoops in order to get like 80% of things sort of transferred over is not worth the hassle. And the UX on both Android and iOS is about equally bad. Either it's Google spying on you and bloatware that you can't uninstall taking up a massive chunk of storage. Or it's a completely locked down ecosystem where you have near zero control as a user. It's a lose-lose scenario from the get-go.

As an adroid user,i love the rog phones throughout the years,def gonna get me one if i have the money,but the iphone does do some things better,so just choose whatever u prefer more,as i am a fan of huge batteries,audio,and gaming,ill choose the android.

I am proud to be a ROG Phone user ❤

Hey Mrwhosetheboss I think the better way for testing wifi speeds is using local speedtest instead of google one. If you run two devices with speedtest like in your video your router will split bandwith uneven and you can get worse results. Also those speedtest are flawed because they can use different servers for testing speeds which can make false result. The best and most reliable method of testing is using locally hosted speedtest like librespeed or just iperf.

The main aspect why people choose Iphone's over android is not because of hardware specs but the operating system itself

Had a 14 pro max, as did my wife and son. The searching for the right picture to focus on is/was annoying. After 6 months my sons new pro max just up and quits on him....ALOT. Just shuts down. All apps updated and still way too often just quits. Haven't been impressed with performance at all. It looks the best and has the "nicest lines" etc, but after 14 iterations I personally would not upgrade again to the 14 pro max. 12 is virtually the same phone. Don't upgrade yet. Dynamic island is simply another gimmick. Not worth that for all the other headache. I do appreciate your time and effort in your videos!!👊🏻👊🏻

you should do real world tests like running standoff 2 or other games that aren't capped at 60 frames. when reviewing a gaming phone, you should also compare other gaming experiences like connecting gamepads, keyboard and mouse, cloud gaming like geforce now; test things gamers will actually be doing

I'm sure that he is the best tech content creator who is consistent and always come up with quality contents. Most of the time when I watch tech related contents i usually skip and watch the part I wanted to know . But when I watch your videos, I will never skip and always watch the full video.. love your videos man!❤

Amazing comparison. However, both devices serve different purposes so I guess, ROG should be compared with other gaming phones 🤔

All the tech specs on flagships at this point are basically awesome. Now other factors that used to be less critical, are becoming the deciding factors. Criteria like the OS, stance on privacy and support life are now critical. And, well, that makes sense. When everything else is roughly equal, you've got to use other metrics to decide. I'm guessing that's why iOS has seen such an influx lately. Heck I'm guilty. Android user since my Galaxy S2 in 2011, now on iPhone 13. And that's exactly why we switched over.

ROG designs just look beyond great.

I like the fact he has sacfraficed his time to show us the massive difference between these 2 neat phones. Thank you.

I heard the rog Pro has an iOS that may be only a 2-year contract . They are not sure if they will contract for more. Meaning no updates.

If you run both speed tests at the same time, the speed will drop by a lot. You should also check wether or not the phones are on the same Wi-Fi frequency/technology.

I think the charging brick included in the box is only 30W while the phone supports up to 65W. If that's the case then this is not the max charging speed for ROG.

And yet we all know the ROG phone will not be used as a daily driver by either Arun or us, especially when you include unboxing as a feature score 😂

when watching the internet test, I was amazed at how low both turned out to be, Idk if its the US or if its just me but got almost 400 mbps download

I'm using Rog 2 and it's been my best android phone so far. The speed is just insane

You might wanna test the long term use, cuz every IPhone I've used get sooo much slower and overheat after a year.

Great entertaining review. Regarding the gaming comparison, there is one factor not considered - prolonged gaming in hot summer. Other reviews showed how the ROG with cooler maintained 60fps whereas others including iphones started to drop fps.

Also another suggestion is something no reviewer I have seen does, which is categories in comparison can't be seen as equal depending on the basis of that comparison for instance in this video packaging is more of a gimmick than an actual perk based on the basis of this comparison and in the same vein camera, cos anyone buying a gaming phone isn't really interested in a mind-blowing camera just one that can take useable shots. What I am trying to say is that when assigning points categories of lower importance get lesser points and vice versa, this will help more in your camera comparison

I have the ROG 6 Pro and I can say its INSANE. You get all kinds of looks and just moving around the phone is lighting fast. Best phone ive ever owned

For anyone who doesn't know, antutu for Android and IOS are incomparable. Still though, for an android phone, over 1.3 million is insane!

Excellent review.. top job 🙂

Seeing the battery test done was great but it would be great if you did the massive comparisons again between flagships etc

Arun: runs multiple benchmark tests to get an accurate view of performance Also Arun: tests a single 2D game to determine gaming performance 😒

Another important comparison is durability. Mishaps are inevitable. It not really practical for a youtube video to test though.

I have the iphone 14 pro max and the ROG phone 6. You are right. It’s a great phone. However, in 4 months time, the charger stopped working. And the finger print and the camera stopped working. I have contacted Asus. They said it is made for a local market in Honk Kong. Can’t fix it in the UK. Can’t fix it in the UAE. My phone became basically worthless. Also, the camera is very very bad (before it stopped working). I have come to the conclusion that we should always stick to Iphone or Samsung.

I think you should make the charging category a draw. Which phone would charge faster using the same charging brick?

"Look how good the camera is" Me: watching on 144p😁👍👍👍

It’s the subscribe segment for me 😅 I died at “ You won’t Rog-gret it “ 😂😂 these things don’t really work and he knows it but Arun still says them regardless… And hands down we still see the same Arun pushing his limit to give great content 🙂

I owned ip14pro max and I felt like when it comes to gaming, ROG phone is better. I'm rooting for the ROG 7 ultimate ✌️

my biggest gripe with the ROG would be looks and build quality... those ROG phones have a history of not passing Jerry's bend test... Great video nevertheless!

I have my rog 5 phone. Still the better phone compared to 80 users out there, i believe. I work hard for this, someday ill upgrade my device, love ROG phones.

You should really start incorporating the S23 ultra in all these tests you do. It's pretty much THE flagship phone of 2023😐

Not me still having too much fun with a OnePlus 8t+ having 2 batteries that fully charged in less than 30 mins, 12 GB of ram, waterproof, badass camera, I wish they just kept making good ones like that