Apple promoted the gaming capabilities of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max during its recent keynote, saying that both flagships can play current AAA games with ray tracing technology enabled. There's even evidence that the latest models can play Resident Evil: Village when connected to an external monitor, but as a video shows, that's a difficult task when running Genshin Impact at its highest settings.

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Other test games, such as "Call of Duty: Mobile" (Call of Duty Mobile) performed well; the performance of "Genshin Impact" on the A17Pro was surprising.

YouTube channel "TheRelaxingEnd" released an unboxing video of the iPhone 15 Pro. In the second half of the video, the content creator also showed the iPhone 15 Pro Max, but for some reasons it was not tested. Regardless, while running a few games, the smaller Pro model seemed to perform well with games like GTA: San Andreas, eFootball PES, PUBG Mobile, and Call of Duty Mobile until 12:23 when Genshin Impact was launched.

Since the iPhone 15 Pro is equipped with the world's first 3nm process A17 Pro, TheRelaxingEnd decided to adjust all settings to the highest, including setting the frame rate to 60FPS. Unfortunately, this puts a huge strain on the iPhone 15 Pro, as Genshin Impact's performance drops severely when engaging in basic combat.

Some areas of the game also experience traversal stuttering, which indicates that either the A17Pro immediately downclocked, resulting in reduced performance, or that the game was not optimized for the latest chips. We'll have to wait and see if future updates of Genshin Impact will improve these lags, and the YouTuber also hinted that he might make a video of the iPhone 15 Pro Max to see if it performs better when running the same game.

Unfortunately, we have reported that the iPhone 15 Pro Max also has a frequency reduction problem. Its larger size does not bring cooling benefits and requires an external fan to maintain performance. If you want to continue playing games on iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max without experiencing lag like now, we recommend you buy some external coolers.