iPhone 15 Pro Max will be this year’s mobile gaming and camera beast.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the big boss and will wipe away all others. It sports an all-new CPU, rear camera system, and gaming performance like no other.
Play Games Like a Pro
Mobile gaming is a massive industry and every brand wants a piece of it. iPhone 15 Pro Max will easily smash the competition starting the last quarter of 2023 with its top-tier, Pro-class hardware and software engines. Meet the A17 Pro, Apple’s finest chipset to date, which is a 3-nm CPU. The architecture itself is enough to tell you of its high performance and low power consumption.
A17 Pro has six cores with two on high-performance mode, having 10% faster performance than the previous chip. The other four cores are in high-efficiency mode with up to three times performance per watt than other chipsets. But the real deal is the combined power of this CPU, GPU, and numerous implementations.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max has a brand-new GPU with 6 cores that can deliver an immersive gaming experience to the next level. The GPU is capable of three impressive functions that you would think the smartphone is a console or even a mini PC.
First, it supports Mesh Shading to let mobile games create very detailed environments without consuming a lot of power. Second, it runs Apple’s MetalFX that combines the CPU’s neural engine and the GPU’s resources to render highly detailed game graphics at a lower power cost. The MetalFX framework allows the GPU to do its job by optimizing how it deals with tasks so it doesn’t eat much on the battery.
The last one is something that will leave any gamer in awe. The iPhone 15 Pro Max comes with Ray Tracing, a very desirable feature in modern gaming. Ray Tracing is the best method today to mimic real-life lighting in 3D games. Without this enabled, lighting in 3D environments will look artificial.
Now, a smartphone can finally deliver this PC-level gaming experience to your hand. The iPhone 15 Pro Max uses hardware-based Ray Tracing in rendering realistic lighting. This implementation has many upsides when compared to software-based RT, including higher frame rates, better immersive experience in VR applications, and runs up to four times faster.
Gamers should know that popular developers are already interested in A17 Pro, its GPU, and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Grand titles like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail by miHoYo, The Division Resurgence by Ubisoft, and Capcom’s Resident Evil Village and Resident 4 Remake were featured in the recent Wonderlust event by Apple.
Apple said that The Division Resurgence will launch on iPhone in early 2024. Capcom’s Resident Evil Village and Resident 4 Remake will arrive on iPhone later this year. Yet the biggest of them all is the launch of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, planned in early 2024. This console Assassin’s Creed title will be made natively on a smartphone.
Relive Moments with Ease
Photos and videos hold memories dear to us and technology has made photography convenient today. So, what’s unique on iPhone 15 Pro Max? The new smartphone boasts a triple-camera module at the back composed of a 48-MP main shooter, 12-MP telephoto, and 12-MP ultrawide lens. You can expect that the phone’s camera is capable of amazing captures at the technical level. But in real life, the iPhone 15 Pro Max exerts force in photography like a titan.
The 48-MP main shooter can clear up lens flare to preserve image quality. Each image you capture will be in high resolution. The configuration for iPhone 15 Pro Max lets it get the best image in Portrait and Night modes. This lens now uses Super High-Resolution by default for maximum potential in color, accuracy, and level of detail. It will take a lot of visual obstructions to drown the phone’s main shooter.
Camera lovers can do pro shoots with iPhone 15 Pro Max too. Apple revealed that the phone can take high-resolution images in 24, 28, and 35 millimeter focal length. Pro photographers can now use iPhone 15 Pro Max as their main device. They can switch between these focal length options swiftly too.
The 12-MP 3x telephoto camera comes with a 77-mm focal length. But the size of the iPhone 15 Pro Max enables 5x optical zoom at 120mm. This camera has a 25% larger sensor than the iPhone 14 Pro Max’s. The 120mm is an excellent choice for close-ups.
The 12-MP ultrawide camera features a 13-mm focal length, an anti-reflective coating, better Night mode, and the latest Smart HDR. Though the biggest addition to this lens is the highly desired Macro photography. When these three lenses work together, they represent seven camera lenses with focal length ranging between 13, 24, 28, 35, 48, and 120 millimeters.
To turn iPhone 15 Pro Max into a primary camera, it’s equipped with USB-C for faster data transfer. It is also compatible with camera accessories so you can deploy a photo studio in a flash and eliminate the need for bulky cameras. It can also do 4K video at 60FPS via ProRes with ACES (Academy Color Encoding System), making the smartphone compatible in film production.
To relive memories once more, use the Spatial video feature for 3D videos and combine it with Apple Vision Pro. View photos and watch videos and be taken back to those moments once again, but at an immersive experience as if you’ve turned back the hands of time.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max will most likely accept pre-orders starting this Saturday, September 16, in the Philippines (Friday, September 15 in the US). Apple said that iPhone 15 units will be available in stores by September 22 in the US.
The iPhone 15 Pro costs ₱70,900 while the iPhone 15 Pro Max is at ₱84,990. There’s a trade-in of up to $1,000 off with iPhone 11 Pro or newer.
