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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jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025exactly but i must say, Redmagic is prone to gaming the ... morei checked it out and now i remember, Realme gamed the benchmarks and Redmagic gamed the touch sampling speeds. Realme used artificial frames and very cheap thermal throttling tactics whereas Redmagic had poor touch sampling rates

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    • Anonymous
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    • 07 Jun 2025

    potato4k, 07 Jun 2025Phones like this without a Dex-like desktop environment cap... morenot everyone needs this.

      Jon8652, 07 Jun 2025These percentages aren't doing it enough justice. 79% ... moreyeah man, people dont take a deeper look, they just read the stability percentage and base everything off of that lol

        Lestin, 07 Jun 2025First: I focused on this part of article "Unfortunatel... morenobody asked for your incompetent initial opinion 😹😹

        Bro reads articles and takes em on face value 💀💀

          rizki1, 07 Jun 2025the good thing is with a fan or not it's faster than t... moreexactly

          but i must say, Redmagic is prone to gaming the system. Their throttling performance is nice but iirc Geekerwan's performance videos showed that redmagic does some weird tricks to get higher fps on benchmarks/in game metrics but in reality the game is a little stuttery, even more so than other normal phones, due to lower 1% lows.

          I suggest you to watch their Ultimate Mobile Phone Review thing. Absolutely top notch vid and exposes brands like ZTE and Realme.

            Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025If Qualcomm (and Apple too) keep making monster CPUS that c... moreThat would be great even for non gaming phones, trading performance for more battery life, like laptops. My Poco X3 Pro would've loved that before dying.

              Phones like this without a Dex-like desktop environment capability feels like a waste of silicon.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 07 Jun 2025

                If Qualcomm (and Apple too) keep making monster CPUS that can cause 1st degree burns without a case, they need to give us the option to manually choose from a selection of wattages/clock speeds. When one of the biggest cooling chambers and a fan can't help, you can't let the phone choose by itself when to stop pumping 15W in a handheld device.

                I know power saving can reduce the clock speeds, but it also limits the phone to 60hz. Both Apple and Androids have lower end phones that can do 120hz while scoring lower than new devices on PSM, so this limit makes no sense.

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                  Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025so all these cooling things are just useless. same performa... moreWhich phone

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                    • GXs
                    • 07 Jun 2025

                    When will you remove the useless cpu throttling test? The app is outdated and in no way shows the actual cpu performance of the phone. Those battery temps are at 55c though, wonder how long the battery lasts without significant degradation.

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                      • 07 Jun 2025

                      Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025If the chip is operating within an efficient clock speed th... morePretty much that indeed.

                        Everyone focus so much on bashing that little fan not doing enough, when real issue is CPU it self that on EVERY DEVICE throttle like crazy...

                        One guy on some discord removed back of his samsung, and slapped 35x35mm fan with cooper heating made for raspberry pi on it and it still throttled... that say something on how bad new snapdragons are...

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 07 Jun 2025

                          Vapor chamber, liquid metal, fan

                          And the cpu throttles more than on a S25U.

                          Oh well, at least the GPU holds up well.

                            jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025what's the fan doing actually? 😹😹 cus it has excell... morethe good thing is with a fan or not it's faster than the rest, except solar bay.

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                              • 07 Jun 2025

                              Great Mobile phone, Like Milestone...
                              I believe, Liquid Cooling System 2 nm and 1.8 nm phones, reach the 5.9 Ghz. CPU Speeds... It will get 8K 120 Fps and 16K 30Fps Video Camera Performances...

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                                • 07 Jun 2025

                                Anonymous, 07 Jun 2025so all these cooling things are just useless. same performa... moreIf the chip is operating within an efficient clock speed threshold, even passive cooling is useless. We would not need any heavy vapor chamber or whatever nonsense in high end phones if their chips ran at 3 instead of 4 GHz. Would be much better for battery life too. Only advantage for this is bragging rights in benchmarks, and 10% better gaming performance. Look at Galaxy A56 or A16 5G for example. Exynos 1580 and 1330 manufactured by Samsung foundry, which is known to be not as good as the 3nm TSMC flagship chipsets in terms of raw efficiency at the same clock speed. And the lack of bigger cores theoretically puts them at an even bigger efficiency disadvantage at the high end. But they are not driven to unnecessarily high clock speeds so they have excellent stability. And don’t believe any of those two phones uses any type of advanced passive cooling solution.

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                                  • 07 Jun 2025

                                  "the active cooling system does not bring enough benefit to justify the extra cost and complications (e.g. the basic water resistance) associated with it." isn't this phone has some first in the class basic protection against water?

                                    These percentages aren't doing it enough justice. 79% GPU stability down to ~5500 points while the ROG phone at its max is only at ~5500

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 07 Jun 2025

                                      Imagine adding noise, moving parts, less water and dust resistance for no perceivable advantage. At this point the RGBs might unironically contribute more towards performance than the useless miniature fan.

                                        jiyen235, 07 Jun 2025tell me you dont have any tech knowledge without telling me... moreFirst: I focused on this part of article "Unfortunately, the CPU still throttles pretty heavily – down to 56% from peak with the fan on, compared to 54% with the fan off (on the 10 Pro it was 57% and 54%, respectively)."
                                        Second: did I asked ? No

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