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AI image generation
The video benchmarks OpenAI's newly released ChatGPT Images 1.5 against Google's Nano Banana Pro across seven product-photography prompts and finds no clear overall winner: Nano Banana Pro tends to win on physical/spatial coherence and facial likeness, while ChatGPT Images 1.5 occasionally wins on lighting quality and fine text/logo accuracy.
ChatGPT Images 1.5 was released the day before filming and is now accessible via a dedicated 'Images' sidebar icon in ChatGPT, or is used automatically when an image is requested in any chat.
The Images tab offers either preset styles from ChatGPT or a free-form custom prompt.
Test 1 (Versace bottle): ChatGPT 1.5 handles the bottle's complex shape well and produces results similar to Nano Banana Pro.
Test 2 (glögi can floating in a pot of mulled wine): Nano Banana Pro wins; the can's proportions in ChatGPT's image are off and its interaction with the water/scene is worse.
Test 3 (placing the creator into a reference-pose scene): Nano Banana Pro wins clearly, preserving facial features accurately, while ChatGPT's version makes him look 'tired and off.'
Test 4 (beauty product with label text, background swapped to bright yellow studio): ChatGPT wins; the lighting is judged more professional and hair placement closer to the reference image.
Test 5 (soap bottle submerged in bubbly water): Nano Banana Pro gets the edge because it correctly changes the physics of the liquid inside the bottle to match its new laying-down orientation, while ChatGPT's liquid physics stay identical to the reference image.
Test 6 (billboard shot for a 'no two-ways' shoe): called a tie; ChatGPT's logo text is judged more accurate, but both images are strong overall.
Test 7 (pink spray bottle with a complex label graphic, tested with a long detailed prompt that ChatGPT itself generated from the reference image): Nano Banana Pro is the clear winner on detail quality (hat, glasses, model), though ChatGPT's skin texture is noted as pretty good.
ChatGPT Images 1.5 currently supports only three aspect ratios: square (1:1), portrait (2:3), and landscape (3:2).
The resolution of ChatGPT's images 'isn't the best' right now, with the creator speculating upscaling or higher-quality updates may come later.
The channel just crossed 15,000 subscribers, versus an original goal of 5,000 subscribers by year's end set at the start of the year.
This is stated to be the creator's last video of the year before a holiday break, with more videos planned for next year.
The two models show a consistent split in relative strengths rather than one being categorically better: Nano Banana Pro repeatedly wins when a test hinges on physical/spatial consistency (liquid physics, facial likeness), while ChatGPT 1.5 wins when a test hinges on lighting quality or fine text/logo fidelity.
In the liquid-physics test, ChatGPT's image is faulted specifically for being too literal — it keeps the liquid's physics identical to the reference image instead of adapting to the bottle's new orientation — framing the failure as a reasoning gap rather than a rendering flaw.
For the hardest test (test 7), the creator tried to level the playing field by having ChatGPT itself generate a maximally detailed shared prompt from the reference image, yet Nano Banana Pro still won by a clear margin, suggesting prompt detail alone doesn't close the gap in that scenario.
«Today we're testing out OpenAI's new image model, ChhatgPT Images 1.5.»
— 00:00
«Now, I don't know about you, but for me, we have a clear winner with this one, and it's of course Nanobanana Pro that kept my facial features quite accurate compared to Chach GPT images where I just look kind of tired and off.»
— 02:34
«And I have to say for this result, I am really impressed with what came back from Jet GPT. The lighting looks a lot more professional than the one that came back from Nano Banana Pro.»
— 03:11
«I think both are all right, but I would still give the edge to Nanobanana Pro since a big thing with Nano Banana Pro that I've been noticing is that it actually understands physics in the sense of now that the bottle is laying on its back in the water.»
— 03:47
«But both images are really good in different ways. So, I think we call this one a tie.»
— 05:04
«Something else worth noting is that CH GPT is only available to generate in three different aspect ratios at this moment which is square, portrait and landscape which in this case means 1x 1, 3x two or 2x3.»
— 06:08
«We just crossed 15,000 subscribers, which is absolutely mind-blowing to me.»
— 06:45
Reception
Strong positive reception with enthusiastic audience agreement on Nano Banana Pro's capabilities, though some viewers prefer ChatGPT and question the comparison fairness.
The video is a hands-on, round-by-round product-photography benchmark rather than a decisive review: it shows Nano Banana Pro ahead on physical coherence and likeness while ChatGPT Images 1.5 pulls ahead on lighting and text fidelity in specific cases, leaving the 'better model' question explicitly open and task-dependent.
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