Apple iPhone 17 Pro Review: Big Gaming Performance Improvements, AAA Titles Finally Tamed
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Digital Foundry is now fully independent! Join the DF Supporter Program and support the team: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx The new Apple iPhone 17 Pro promises - and delivers - big performance enhancements, the upshot of this being a highly significant improvement in triple-A games that prior iPhones have struggled to handle. Oliver Mackenzie gets to grips with the new phone, benchmarks the A19 Pro SoC and stacks it up against prior iPhone generations in this exhaustive review. Go here to check out DF merch! https://store.digitalfoundry.net Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe 00:00 Overview 00:35 GPU benchmarks 06:01 Game testing 14:21 ML performance, cameras, and design 19:55 Analysis and conclusion
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