Smartphone SoCs have grown more powerful every year, to the point where it’s practically necessary to equip any phone with a flagship SoC with vapor chamber cooling. Without vapor-chamber cooling, flagship SoCs will throttle quickly after their peak, yielding performance that looks good only on paper. It seems even vapor-chamber cooling might not be enough these days, as more OEMs are reportedly experimenting with adding active cooling fans to help the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 SoC sustain its performance for longer.
Leaker Digital Chat Station recently mentioned on Weibo that performance gains from a cooling fan outweigh those from a chip generation upgrade, especially in scenarios like gaming.
