Red Magic 8S Pro debuts Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 chipset, 8S Pro+ offers up to 24GB RAM

04 July 2023
The new chip boosts the CPU and GPU clock speeds while improvements to the cooling fan help it keep temps in check.

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Game Legion, 06 Jul 2023Because you're a developer who's not there PC and... moreIf I really need to do a proper work, there are always better options than a phone. You can't see anything on the tiny screen to make a proper work.
Make no excuses, just think.

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    Hemedans, 06 Jul 2023Thats Gpu worlk not storage? Even Sata ssd in Windows has t... moreMy fault, I mixed somehow two things in one post XD.

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      Mediatek sux, 06 Jul 2023Really? How did you test this?Cross platform disk test app has also memory copy subtest, it shows me 12.35GB/s(single channel). On my zen8 is LPDDR5 3200MHz memory which has theoretical speed 51.2GB/s in Quad-channel 16-bit (64-bit) mode.

      Mobile GPUs don't have dedicated VRAM and caches...so main system RAM is used, which is connected through narrow memory bus. LPDDR4/5 are not so fast as GDDR5/6(x) used on desktop GPUs. What suffers a lot is texture sampling(very common operation during rendering every frame). For that reason mobile games are using fewer textures with smaller resolution vs. desktop games.

      Mem. bandwidth on Adreno 740 is 64GB/s. Even the old GTX 750 from 2014 has 80GB/s. RTX 4090 - 1008 GB/s.

        Bzuco, 06 Jul 2023What gaming phones really needs is much faster RAM, todays ... moreReally? How did you test this?

          blue, 06 Jul 2023Again, why would I emulate WINDOWS games on a phone, when t... moreEmulation enable you to have all system in one device. Imagine traveling carrying your Gaming pc, ps2, wii, switch, gamecube, ps vita, psp, nes, Snes, Gba etc or you can just carry your phone and controller and play all those games in your phone?

            Bzuco, 06 Jul 2023500MB/s is nothing :) , texture sampling process in games n... moreThats Gpu worlk not storage? Even Sata ssd in Windows has that Bandwidth, only Nvme is faster.

              blue, 06 Jul 2023Again, why would I emulate WINDOWS games on a phone, when t... moreBecause you're a developer who's not there PC and needs to do something urgent, like running an app that'll only work on Windows?

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                Hemedans, 06 Jul 2023Millions of people do, just get cheap telescopic controller... moreAgain, why would I emulate WINDOWS games on a phone, when there is much better hardware running Windows?

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                  Hemedans, 06 Jul 2023Ufs card are there as fast as early ufs standard (500MB/S) ... more500MB/s is nothing :) , texture sampling process in games needs hundreds of GB/s.

                    Bzuco, 06 Jul 2023SD card read speed is several times slower then internal st... moreUfs card are there as fast as early ufs standard (500MB/S) which is decent. But very few implement that standard.

                      blue, 06 Jul 2023Emulating Windows game on a phone? Why would anyone do that?Millions of people do, just get cheap telescopic controller less than $10, or if you can afford kishi, gamesir or Backbone buy them. Then you can emulate Quality games without pay to win elements.

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                        Anonymous, 05 Jul 2023You ain't emulating sh!t with a 24 Gb RAM Android phon... more24GB RAM is good only for those boasting "look what I have". Just a useless number.

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                          Hemedans, 05 Jul 2023With Virtual Machine a thing now in Android you need as muc... moreEmulating Windows game on a phone? Why would anyone do that?

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                            Anonymous, 05 Jul 2023Lack of card sllot (yeah, they needed to sell the 1Tb versi... moreSD card read speed is several times slower then internal storage.
                            You need very quickly load game assets from storage to RAM during game play.

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                              What gaming phones really needs is much faster RAM, todays max. ~16GB/s per channel is the most limiting factor for mobile games.

                                Anton., 05 Jul 2023You see Asus, to play you don't have to pay your ridic... moreBut Asus has respectable software support. All ROG Phones get two major OS updates.

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                                  24 gb ram? thats an overkill

                                    hmm, 05 Jul 2023None of the PC or Console care about these emulators too as... moreThey dont need to care. Emulators developers dont make pc games.

                                    Switch is enough on a small phone screen, if you want more i guess you could add texture packs and upscale resolution and dock your phone to the tv. Pc emulation on android isnt gonna be playing every ps4 era games either, more like stuff from 2010-15.

                                    You should get a rog ally.

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                                      DrakeX, 05 Jul 2023The thing I hate about Android phones having an abundance o... moreYeah same here as it feels they fix the software problem by adding more ram that dont actually solve much at all.

                                      And then the emulators that cause more problems and there solution is also more ram

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                                        Mediatek sux, 05 Jul 2023Switch and pc emulator dont care about those low end chips.None of the PC or Console care about these emulators too as they wont get money out of people who use emulators to play there games.

                                        Isn't Switch like android based or something ? Or something similar as i dont think that small thing can have anything we see on xbox/windows and playstation.

                                        Also as much as i know the game studios also dont like people use emulators and ban people who use them. Even Chromebook users got banned cause it triggered something on there auto detect programs.

                                        And what i think that be better is the cloud gaming where you dont need to have good hardware and need basically only screen and gamepad to play all the PC and Console games online. It be a lot larger market to make money out of people then have emulators that very minority group of people can use cause of the heavy need of high spec hardware