Enthusiast cooled iPhone 18 Pro with cold can of La Croix sparkling water; benchmarks show 25% higher sustained performance
- ID
- 28870
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Sep 2026, 7:00 PM
- Fetched
- 26 Sep 2026, 7:09 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/enthusiast-cooled-iphone-18-pro-with-cold-can-of-la-croix-sparkling-water-benchmarks-show-25-percent-higher-sustained-performance-liquid-cooling-surprisingly-reduced-thermal-throttling
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 26 Sep 2026, 7:10 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
Tom's Hardware reports that an enthusiast cooled an iPhone 18 Pro with a cold can of La Croix sparkling water and measured roughly 25% higher sustained performance, attributing it to reduced thermal throttling. The supplied article text is almost entirely site navigation, membership prompts, and newsletter boilerplate — it contains no test methodology, no benchmark names, no ambient temperature, no before/after numbers beyond the 25% figure in the headline, and no named author. Treat the headline as the only substantive claim available.
Why it matters
If you run anything sustained on a phone — on-device inference, long builds over remote dev, extended camera or video capture — peak benchmark numbers are the wrong number to plan around; this item's only concrete figure is a 25% sustained-performance gap that appeared purely from external cooling, meaning the device was throttling before it. No Malaysia or SEA angle is present in this text, and the body text does not support any purchasing or tooling decision.
Discussion angle
Peak vs sustained: which mobile performance numbers should you actually trust when sizing an on-device workload, and how would you measure throttling yourself rather than reading a headline about a soda can?