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Yes and no. It's not about the price of the phone, it's about the capability of the modem and the material between the modem and the sky.
About ten years ago, I went to visit family in another state, and I blew my brother's mind with the speeds my iPhone was getting. He thought it was an iPhone thing. I said nah, much as I'd like to brag about having the more powerful, more private phone — I just had a newer modem. I think he had a Galaxy S3, which was a few years older than the 6s I had. I told him if he had the latest Samsung, he'd likely see comparable speeds.
Apple is getting into making their own modems, and the jury is still out on whether that's a good thing. I think the 17 series still use Qualcomm for 5G but they use Apple silicon for WiFi and Bluetooth. Maybe LTE as well, not sure about that. The Apple modem will almost certainly sip less power, but I'm not sure if it will be "better". Probably not.
I've been all over the smartphone debate and I've argued on both sides (for Android and for iPhones). I've never heard anyone seriously defend one having better network connectivity. iPhones are almost always universally faster. Right now the Galaxy S25 is faster than the iPhone 16 series, but the iPhones lose less power to thermal throttling, which is to say the iPhones are better for gaming since they lose less power, but if you're not a gamer, the Samsung will be faster. Camera is subjective. iPhone almost always has the best video recording, but their photos are oversharpened. Samsung oversoftens, and Pixels hallucinate details they can't see, with AI. (Zoom in on something far away with text, take a picture, then zoom in on the text and look at the AI-generated text that looks like it's from Animal Crossing. So what other details is it hallucinating?) But network connectivity? We don't get into that. Because it really boils down to "it's all the same but each generation improves upon the last a little."
Lol do people actually play cpu-intensive games on their phones? What would that even be? The only thing I can think of is PUBG Mobile and that's boring since its filled with bots.
I don't know if they're CPU or GPU intensive, but I've heard Call of Duty Warframe pushes the phones to overheat. I dunno, never played it. Also, iPhone 15 or 16 and later can play a handful of AAA games. Nothing good, just some Capcom and Ubisoft slop. Assassins Creed and Resident Evil stuff. The new ones, too.
Pretty sure the last couple generations of iPhones are more powerful than the Switch 2. Pretty sure most phones from the last 5-6 years are more powerful than the Switch 1. The Switch 1 was just a reworked Nvidia Shield tablet... from 2014. It had more RAM than the phones of its time, and the Tegra GPU hit a little harder, but the whole Switch 1 was quickly outclassed by every flagship phone on the market after a couple years, and the Switch 1 came out in like 2016 or 2017. Basically if you have a good phone from 2019 or 2020 or later, it's more powerful than a Switch 1, and Switch 1 ran Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (with cel-shaded graphics and heavily optmised).
A lot of us in tech are guilty of underestimating ARM64, but it's been doing great. Apple has used it exclusively in their desktop and laptop computers (the M-series Macs) since 2020. I have an M2 Pro on my desk, it can run Cyberpunk and you probably know how small it is. Whole computer is like 7.75" square and maybe an inch tall?