The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max feature TSMC’s A17 Pro, the world’s first 3nm SoC, but it’s all for naught if Apple can’t provide a decent thermal solution to control the temperature of the chipset when running high-intensity applications of. Due to this oversight, Apple’s latest A-series chips inevitably hit a temperature wall, causing games such as “Genshin Impact” to freeze uncontrollably.
According to netizen research, previous generations of iPhones would add graphite thermal stickers behind the motherboard, close to the middle frame, to dissipate heat through this method. However, this generation of motherboards does not have thermal stickers. I wonder if this is the reason why the heat dissipation of this generation is relatively poor.
Therefore, you can find many videos of players in China who will take apart their mobile phones and remove thermal paste inside to help with heat dissipation.
NowA Chinese player does it himselfa heat pipe is installed for the iPhone 15 Pro, giving it greater heat dissipation capabilities.
In addition, he also directly applied thermal paste to the outer shell of the iPhone 15 Pro and glued a large thermal conductive plate on it. Dissipate heat directly outside.
By the way, before the modification, the weight of a normal iPhone 15 Pro was 286 grams, but after his modification, the weight of the phone became 372 grams. The weight has increased by nearly 100 grams.
Although many people think it is too heavy, after actual testing, the running score has indeed improved significantly after modifying the heat dissipation.
Running “Genshin Impact” on the modified iPhone 15 Pro can now maintain a stable speed of 60FPS, and AnTuTu’s overall score has also been significantly improved.
Work to upgrade the iPhone 15 Pro’s cooling solution was done by an unnamed Chinese content creator, and Revegnus shared proof of the results on X without naming the person behind it. In any case, the heat pipe modification has allowed Apple’s 6.1-inch flagship machine to drop 10% in temperature when running intensive applications, and the improvement in the 3DMark Solar Bar Unlimited benchmark test is also quite obvious.
Since the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max lack effective thermal solutions, and the A17 Pro’s continued performance suffers, Apple is said to be exploring graphene thermal solutions for next year’s iPhone 16 series. However, there is no word yet on whether this type of heat sink will be more efficient than using heat pipes, and it is worth mentioning that the latter is the most expensive.
