While we love seeing comparisons between Qualcomm Snapdragon and Apple’s A-series processors, there is more to a smartphone than just powerful processors. Heat dissipation and cooling techniques are essential in maintaining smartphone temperature, and they determine how frequently your smartphone throttles. Under heavy workload, many smartphones fizzle out, and when there is a successive thread of intensive tasks then smartphones tend to disable prime cores. So if you are looking to test smartphone throttling and want to find out the endurance of your smartphone then follow our guide below.

There are generally two easy ways to test smartphone throttling on smartphones. On Android devices, you have a dedicated app called CPU Throttling Test that lets you check your CPU performance over time and how it manages cooling. And for both Android and iOS devices, there is the AnTuTu benchmark application which also gives you a good overview of throttling after a series of continuous tests. We have discussed both the methods in detail so let’s begin with the CPU Throttling Test first.

  • CPU Throttling Test on Smartphone

  • AnTuTu Smartphone Throttling

  • CPU Throttling Test on Smartphone

First of all, go ahead and install the CPU Throttling Test app (Free) on your smartphone. After that, open the app. Keep in mind, the app recommends the phone to be in a cold state so make sure you leave your smartphone for 10 minutes so nothing intensive is performed on the device. After that, simply tap on “Start Test”.

CPU Throttling Test on Smartphone

And this time, I did see larger dips in the graph which suggests that after increasing the thread count and starting the test at a higher temperature, the CPU throttled a bit. Although it was not a considerable dip, it goes on to show that every smartphone throttles, no matter what flagship specs you have got. Also, one can’t stress enough how important cooling and heat dissipation is in the smartphone world.

AnTuTu Smartphone Throttling

We all know AnTuTu as a benchmark application, but it can also offer great insight into smartphone throttling. You can install AnTuTu for both Android and iOS from its official website. After that, open it. On the first run, it will download some plugins in order to run the highly intensive test.

However, after successive tests when the phone was still at a higher temperature, the score started to dip. On my 5th test, I finally found OnePlus 7T lagging and unable to withstand the workload. In the 5th test, it scored 395721. Again, it goes on to show that after successive workloads, smartphones tend to throttle their CPU and GPU to maintain the overall temperature. However, it’s great to know that flagship chipsets have become pretty powerful and can survive many rounds of torture tests without breaking a sweat.

So these are the two ways you can easily stress test the CPU and GPU of your smartphone. As I mentioned above, every smartphone throttles, but it’s about for how long a smartphone can sustain the workload while maintaining the temperature before throttling the CPU.