Black Shark, Red Magic vs mainstream flagships

18 July 2019


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  • Anonymous
  • MNS
  • 20 Jul 2019

Awesome article and a great, straightforward test!
The major thing revealed here is how dossappointing the P 30 Pro is!

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    • Red Magic 3 User
    • U@q
    • 20 Jul 2019

    DroidBoye, 20 Jul 2019Red Magic 3's fan would still be beneficial in the long run... moreI am actually seeing the benefits of fan in gaming sessions. As well just to test fan i did extreme stress tests with fan off and on believe me you will be cooler at least few degrees of heat that means a lot for chipset and battery.

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      • Red Magic 3 User
      • U@q
      • 20 Jul 2019

      taghack, 19 Jul 2019I believe we are running the latest global ROM. There are n... moreIf changing Rom is hectic just enable devoloper options and activate HARDWARE ACCELERATED RENDERING. And run the test. you will surely bill of 20-30k.

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        • Gauri
        • gN@
        • 20 Jul 2019

        Honor Play should've been included in this test, last year Poco f1 & Play were selected as best budget gaming + all-rounder phones by gsmarena.

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          • cv0k
          • pUg
          • 20 Jul 2019

          I would have been interested in seeing the OnePlus 7 PRO as well as the Asus ZenFone 6 in the comparison, I remember these two having very little to no throttling from their respective tests (don't know if it was @ GSMarena or computerbase.de).
          Also as someone before me mentioned the usecase of simultaneous gameplay and charging should be tested as well.

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            • Shui8
            • KZK
            • 20 Jul 2019

            Nubia Red Magic 3 seems to me an overall winner here. After all that test, its not as hot as Black Shark 2.

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              • Doom
              • IV5
              • 20 Jul 2019

              Hi GSMArena, you should consider having the CPU Throttling Test as part your standard review process. It gives people a better view of which phone can sustain performance for longer periods of time.

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                • Shui8
                • KZK
                • 20 Jul 2019

                The way i see how P30 Kirin 980 works is they analyzed certain games & pick the max playable fps which has the most stabilized frame rate, lock it so u can play games smoothly all the way till the end. This way u got smooth gameplay, using less power, hence save more battery life. Exactly what Gpu Turbo does.

                This Cpu Throttling Test must be torture the chip hard, therefore Kirin 980 lock it at lower level. I believe when gaming, it lock onto more higher fps.

                  Shadocx, 19 Jul 2019I'm not surprised the Red Magic 3's fan doesn't help much, ... moreRed Magic 3's fan would still be beneficial in the long run especially for the battery. Most hardcore gamers play tethered to a (for example) power bank. Charging + gaming would heat up the phone more as compared to just gaming. The most concerning aspect of this type of habit is that, on a passively-cooled systems, the heatpipe were basically routed underneath or near the battery making the battery a part of the "cooling" itself, in which, any battery would hate.

                    aby_gup, 19 Jul 2019Defending Huawei's Honor should have been Mate 20 x, this t... morethey probably don't have that phone yet and besides the p30 pro if the best phone that Huawei commercially release unlike the other one

                      With the Nintendo switch lite selling for $199 there is no real competing android portable gaming phone.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • n5X
                        • 20 Jul 2019

                        S10e does quite well
                        The gpu is also best onscreen at the cold run
                        The p30 gpu Is similar has 2 led cores but does much worse less cores less power less heat but

                          Kangal, 20 Jul 2019Just a heads-up, the Global Rom is practically a hacked sof... moreInteresting. I will definitely look into the situation. Thanks for the info.

                            taghack, 19 Jul 2019It is in the works.Just a heads-up, the Global Rom is practically a hacked software.

                            There's quite a few bugs, little optimisation, and to make matters worse there's no way to get root access (where with admin privilege you can make fixes, or even apply Custom ROMs/Kernels).

                            This was one of the reasons I ended up forgoing the Nubia RedMagic 3 as my daily driver.

                              I'm not surprised the Red Magic 3's fan doesn't help much, in a teardown video we could see that the fan's room isn't connected directly to the SoC, so it can't grab all much heat with all the layers that separate it to the SoC.

                                They at least show that performance, endurance and design can be better in most cases with also better price.
                                Non-boring design, unlike other with just color change, alone can help the sales. Not everyone likes cases.

                                  Dometalican, 19 Jul 2019The fact that you guys did this means we should be expectin... moreIt is in the works.

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                                    • Dometalican
                                    • B45
                                    • 19 Jul 2019

                                    The fact that you guys did this means we should be expecting a Red Magic 3 Review soon?

                                      Another thing ROG Phone with its fan accessory and X mode (or whatever its called) would be interesting and I am pretty sure it would sustain far longer than any of these

                                        I am surprised that phones lose so much performance after an hour, I play PUBG and emulator games on my G2 and it does get warm with slight drop in PUBG and almost no drop in PSP emulator so how come modern phones fall so much? Maybe its because their SoC is far more powerful? Or is there something I don't understand? And Gsmarena should have also tested Performance mode on P30 and that huge drop is likely because of GPU Turbo

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