Higher FPS drains battery faster and heats faster?
- By Hadron
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Running the same hardware at a higher FPS will use more power, because the phone is having to do more calculations per second.
For the same reason running the same FPS but higher resolution in the same phone will use more power.
"Flagship" vs "midrange" is too broad for the question to be answered. Different flagships have different screen resolutions, as do different midrangers. Different display panels will use different amounts of power at the same refresh rate and same brightness. Different SoCs vary in the amount of power they use to do the same amount of computation. So different midrangers will use different amounts of power, different flagships will use different amounts of power, different people using the same phone will use different amounts of power (because e.g. they'll choose different brightness settings). There will be a range for both flagships and midrangers, and I expect the ranges overlap.
Different people have different sensitivities to frame rates, so I don't think there is a single correct answer to that last question.
For the same reason running the same FPS but higher resolution in the same phone will use more power.
"Flagship" vs "midrange" is too broad for the question to be answered. Different flagships have different screen resolutions, as do different midrangers. Different display panels will use different amounts of power at the same refresh rate and same brightness. Different SoCs vary in the amount of power they use to do the same amount of computation. So different midrangers will use different amounts of power, different flagships will use different amounts of power, different people using the same phone will use different amounts of power (because e.g. they'll choose different brightness settings). There will be a range for both flagships and midrangers, and I expect the ranges overlap.
Different people have different sensitivities to frame rates, so I don't think there is a single correct answer to that last question.