
Apple
Excellent

Realme
Great
iPhone 17 Pro Max
The iPhone 17 Pro Max marks a significant design departure with an aluminum unibody chassis, centered camera plateau, and vapor chamber cooling. It is thinner and lighter while maintaining IP68 durability.
Realme GT 7 Pro
Premium aviation aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass 7i and IP68/IP69 water resistance — a first for Realme. At 223g and 8.55mm thick, it's reasonable for the battery size. However, the phone is extremely slippery and practically demands a case.
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iPhone 17 Pro Max
The 6.9-inch Super Retina XDR display pushes peak brightness to 3,000 nits with ProMotion 120Hz, making it the most sunlight-readable phone on the market.
Realme GT 7 Pro
The 6.78-inch Samsung Eco2 LTPO OLED is the phone's crown jewel, with up to 6,500 nits peak brightness making it one of the brightest smartphone displays ever made. GSMArena measured 2,336 nits in real testing — surpassing the company's own claims. Excellent color calibration, Dolby Vision support, and 120Hz refresh rate complete the package.
iPhone 17 Pro Max
The triple 48MP camera system delivers refined computational photography with improved low-light performance, though hardware changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Realme GT 7 Pro
The 50MP main camera produces great daylight photos with excellent detail, and the 3x periscope telephoto delivers solid results with good dynamic range. However, the 8MP ultrawide is embarrassingly weak for a phone at this price — better suited to budget devices. The main sensor was also downgraded from the GT5 Pro.
iPhone 17 Pro Max
The A19 Pro chip combined with vapor chamber cooling delivers best-in-class sustained performance with 40% better thermal management than the previous generation.
Realme GT 7 Pro
One of the first phones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, scoring 2.62-2.78 million on AnTuTu — roughly 24% better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Real-world performance is smooth and multitasking is excellent with best-in-class RAM management. However, the phone gets uncomfortably hot under sustained load, and there's evidence of benchmark manipulation.