The autonomy of the Galaxy S22 Ultra was compared with the flagships

Youtuber Mrwhosetheboss published a new video in which he compared autonomy Galaxy S22 Ultra with Galaxy S21 Ultra, Pixel 6 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max and Xiaomi 12 Pro. To ensure that all devices are on an equal footing, the author took five brand-new smartphones with a maximum battery capacity of 100% and calibrated the brightness of the displays to the same level.

It is worth noting that all these smartphones use LTPO technology, which allows you to vary the display refresh rate depending on the task in order to save battery consumption. But if S21 Ultra, iPhone 13 Pro Max and Pixel 6 Pro are capable of changing the frequency in the range from 120 to 10 Hz, then S22 Ultra and Xiaomi 12 Pro uses a new generation of this technology with the ability to reduce the refresh rate to 1 Hz, which gives them advantage.

As part of the test, each device performed the same actions that simulate the daily activity of the user: viewing posts in Instagram, mobile gaming, 4K video capture and post-processing, app store downloads, online shopping and browsing TikTok.

This simulates a continuous intense load, and the author calls 6 hours of work a good result in such conditions - which was almost unattainable a few years ago. But in 2022, that changed: even the Pixel 6 Pro, which was the first out of the game, lasted 7 hours and 6 minutes. It was followed by Xiaomi 12 Pro with a result of 7 hours 34 minutes. Although these two smartphones performed the worst of the tests, this is still an impressive autonomy.

The top three were Samsung and Apple smartphones. Surprisingly, third position went to the Galaxy S22 Ultra, which ran out of juice in 8 hours and 8 minutes, despite having a better screen and the same battery as the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The latter was in second place with a score of 8 hours and 15 minutes. The winner once again was the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which was not prevented even by the smaller battery capacity among the models presented. He lasted an impressive 10 hours and 27 minutes.

Notably, four of the five tested smartphones used proprietary processors: the Galaxy relied on Exynos, the iPhone on the Apple A15 Bionic, and the Pixel on Tensor, Google's first chipset. And only Xiaomi 12 Pro used Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which can be found in devices from other manufacturers.