RedMagic 10S Pro performance and throttling review

07 June 2025
The phone is equipped with the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Leading Version and has an improved active cooling setup. 

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PeterThePanda, 08 Jun 2025It's a placebo effect (as stated by Louis Rossmann). 😂... moreit's just weird, they have world class non-fan cooling but also have the fan which isn't really doing anything. i'd call this a wasted opportunity instead of false advertising/scamming.

    Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025again, just like in the gt 7 article, youre comparing about... morebro's just yappin

      Anonymous, 07 Jun 202554c and 55c??? That can easily cause burns on the skinIf you see the thermal image posted at the very bottom, you'll see that the outside temps are like 40°C.

        Jeffrey Kyle JACKSON, 07 Jun 2025Finally, they applied "Liquid Cooling Technology"... moreMy man, they are not using the liquid cooling technology you're referring to 😐. It's still an air cooled system - but the thermal compound used between the processor and the heatsink is liquid metal (instead of traditional thermal paste)

          ngl that lowest loop score of 5500 is pretty nuts

          Usually other phones with SD 8 elite/D9400 score 3000-4000 in their lowest loop. That's like a generational gap in performance.

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            Anonymous, 08 Jun 2025No one's gonna sell phones that reach those kinds of t... moreHonor just did on the 400 pro. Unless these guys temp meter is inaccurate.

              jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025what's the fan doing actually? 😹😹 cus it has excell... moreIt's a placebo effect (as stated by Louis Rossmann). 😂

              It's like wireless cooling, the innovative solution introduced by Apple on the 2018 Macbook Air (that has a fan but isn't even connected to the heat sink). /s 😂

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                Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025If the chip is operating within an efficient clock speed th... moreImagine boasting about Samsung selling gimped devices.

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                  Anonymous, 07 Jun 202554c and 55c??? That can easily cause burns on the skinNo one's gonna sell phones that reach those kinds of temps on the backplate.

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                    • 07 Jun 2025

                    Snapdragon iron elite 8 lol.

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                      • 07 Jun 2025

                      Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025again, just like in the gt 7 article, youre comparing about... moreoh and i forgot to also note, the rog does not have an LE cpu, meaning it should actually technically be like 5% lower cpu throughput.

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                        jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025bro you're high, go take a look at the ROG Phone'... moreagain, just like in the gt 7 article, youre comparing about half a years worth of software updates. i sure hope qc got better scores 7 months after they launched a device than the other way around. please note the cpu graphs on the rog phone, and how it keeps, throughout the test, about 50% higher cpu throughput. theres no magic there, because its not a benchmark "score". its a raw MIPS test.
                        an external, peltier cooler would go great lengths to keeping the actual device cool. if i had to wager, significantly cooler than what RM achieves with a fan.

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                          jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025bro you're high, go take a look at the ROG Phone'... moreI don't believe the fan does much in terms of actually cooling the chip itself rather more for comfort. A boiling hot phone is not fun to play with compared to a somewhat warm phone. It helps very little for the chip but it does seem to indirectly help with at least spreading the heat out or reducing the whole phones heat

                            Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025the rog phone achieves that with its active cooling system.... morebro you're high, go take a look at the ROG Phone's scores and then look at these gpu scores lmao

                            The ROG Phone with fan is worse than the Redmagic without a fan LMAOOO

                            Tho you're right, the Redmagic's fan seems somewhat useless but keep in mind the most important thing is keeping the phone itself cool so you have a comfy gaming session, the fan redirects heat directly from one side whereas if it is left to passive cooling the heat will spread throughout the whole phone. Thus the phone would feel a lot cooler with the fan and you're gonna have a more comfortable session.

                              Anonymous, 07 Jun 202554c and 55c??? That can easily cause burns on the skinNot really as those are the temperatures inside, not outside. My S25 Ultra went up to 60°C before, YouTube ReVanced being bugged on Samsung is to blame ^^`

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                                • 07 Jun 2025

                                54c and 55c???

                                That can easily cause burns on the skin

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                                  jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025yeah man, people dont take a deeper look, they just read th... morethe rog phone achieves that with its active cooling system. in fact it achieves better than that, because its not pointless!.
                                  indeed, RM got a decent gpu stability score without the fan. so whats the point of the fan again?

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                                    • 07 Jun 2025

                                    so, the fan is downright pointless, buy a peltier cell instead, as that would have an actually measurable impact on performance. they cheat on their touch sampling, as per geekerwan tests. whats the point of this phone again? the air triggers?

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                                      • 07 Jun 2025

                                      The 8 Elite is powerful but throttles too easily.

                                        "does not bring enough benefit to justify the extra cost", are you guys blind? or am i blind?. Honestly curious, cus from what I've seen from all elite phones, the 10 series is the only phone that gives you those scores in 3dmark with such a stability level, even the rog 9 you guys reviewed is horrendous in stability at the same peak score stress test.