Asus ROG Phone 5 Review after 15 Days: Is Snapdragon 888 Causing Heating Issues? | Gaming Test By MySmartPrice English

Yes there are flagship smartphones aplenty that will offer you the best camera, the best UI or maybe the best display. But if you belong to this discerning tribe known as gamers, then none of these will truly tickle your fantasies. So let me introduce you to this monster of a smartphone. This is ROG phone 5. Now, unlike the previous ROG smartphones, this year, the lineup has mutated into three distinctly different smartphones, each more powerful than the others. And what I have here is the vanilla, ROG phone 5.

This is just the starting variant, but even this vanilla flavor packs some of the most cutting edge hardware. We have ever seen and also supports all the ROG accessories that the smartphone supports. Now before we proceed, here's a quick reminder to hit that red subscribe button and the bell icon to stay up to date with all the latest tech videos that we put our hi, I'm Shibuya you're watching my smart price, and this is my review of the ROG phone 5. While ASUS is selling the ROG phone 5 with up to 12 GB of ram. The variant we received for review comes with 16 GB of lpddr5 ram, the snapdragon triple eight and 256 GB of UFS.3.1 storage completes the core hardware inside there's, also a 144 hertz AMOLED display and additional USB c port and pressure sensitive air triggers on the edges. So as far as gaming phones go, to roger phone five nearly offers it all.

Only the pro and ultra offers two additional triggers on the back panel and a full-fledged display. This time, the PCB housing, the chipset and other components is placed in the middle, allowing the heat to spread evenly across the body. There's also a vapor chamber and a graphite sheet to cool down the phone while you're gaming. But despite all this effort to keep things cool, the RJ phone 5 gets warm when the x-mode is engaged during gaming, which in turn leads to throttling. Now, what is x mode, it's the heart and soul of the ROG phone and turning it on puts the CPU and GPU into overdrive, making use of all the available resources to deliver rock solid frame rates, while you're gaming at the highest possible graphics, quality along with enabling secret weapon? Of course, this time, there are three levels of x mode game tuning.

Each increasing the power draw to extract more compute, the last one level 3 can only be engaged with the proactive cooler attached. Then there are options to tweak the graphics with almost a PC like settings panel for each game you play along with the touch sensitivities, the air triggers aside. You can bind macros to execute multiple moves at once, but use a keyboard and mouse without letting the game know. You have switched input modes, and this is what makes the ROG phones so unique, while every other flagships will offer you multiple ways to customize the home screen to look just the way you want or change how the fingerprint animation looks. The ROG phone 5 gives you exclusive access to the engine.

I feel like a race car driver every time I open up the console and with each iteration ASUS has been opening up the raw capabilities of the snapdragon chips. A little more. You can individually increase the thermal cap, CPU GPU speeds and the whole shebang just like in a PC game. Only this time more isn't always better. The ROG phone five has heating issues, but the fault may not entirely be a source.

The snapdragon triple eight is known to be a hungry beast that guzzles power and heats up even on phones like the OnePlus 9 pro, my unit's internal thermal sensors picked up 55 degrees, while playing Genshin Impact at the highest graphics settings with mode level.2 engaged the visual fidelity was fantastic though, and the AMOLED display with a peak brightness of 800 nits offers one of the best experiences, but the screen itself gets too hot to touch the rear panels becomes a hot sheet of lava, and even the air triggers get warm and this while testing even before the maddening Delhi summers kick in, but gentian impact is anyway a power hungry game. How about Call of Duty mobile? It was slightly better in terms of thermals, with the temperatures ranging around 41 to 46 degrees, with everything maxed out and being a regular at this game. I could see a marked improvement in my gameplay, the reasons the 300hz touch, sampling rate and the air triggers. Both are meant for taking your game to the next level, and my in-game reflexes saw a massive improvement, be it aiming or strafing, or quickly, switching weapons. The kg phone 5 registered even the quickest touches, while the air triggers allowed for aiming and shooting simultaneously, while moving around like using a four finger grip.

The audio has also improved a lot from last time. It's not just loud anymore but more dynamic, and it's easier to figure out which direction the footsteps are coming from, or you're being shot from, but the biggest advantage of the ROG 405 is also its most fatal flaw. The raw performance it unleashes cannot be held within the chassis and after multiple rounds of running benchmarks, games and stress tests. This, whose ROG phone 5 significantly heated up, which in turn led to throttling, take an tutu scores. For instance, the first run registered a very high score of above seven hundred thousand and that's at x mode level.

Two after that, all the tests I ran hardly lived up to its previous record. I even got a score as low as three seventy-two thousand after four runs, which is lower than the Samsung Galaxy f62 freezer edition the throttling. My friends are real on this one. My fears were further confirmed by a 45-minute run of CPU throttling test where the CPU throttle to 79 of its max performance, which is again near about the same range as the OnePlus 9. On the 3dmark wildlife stress test, which takes the GPU route into maxing out.

The capabilities show a marked decline in fps as the temperature rises and in this 20 minute long test, the temperature jumped from 35 degrees to a whopping 49 degrees. I registered surface temperatures of above 50 degrees on the screen and the rear panel. In conclusion, the performance claims aren't just a marketing gaming. This is the real deal for true performance enthusiast, but the snapdragon triple eight is so power hungry this year that I have to recommend using the proactive cooler case mandatory. If you want to make full use of the ASUS ROG phone 5.

, it costs an additional 3 grand and comes bundled only in the pro and ultimate. The 144hz display on the ROG phone 5 is right. Now the most responsive display you can get on a smartphone in India, coupled with that 300 hertz touch sampling rate. The kg phone 5's panel feels like it was designed keeping a gamer in mind. The big brightness of the panel is only 800 nits, but the Samsung panel feels really immersive, while gaming and watching movies it supports HDR on both video streaming apps and games, and the ROG does feel a bit old-fashioned with noticeable bezels around the panel.

But if you are a gamer, you will appreciate this conscious decision, the bezels, let you rest your palm while your fingers do all the moving around preventing accidental touches. The kg phone 5 also has a strong rumble for vibration feedback, and it springs to life when you're typing on the keyboard or using the air triggers to shoot enemies. Well, the sews ROG phone 5 display isn't going to put your Samsung and OnePlus out of business anytime soon, but credit where it's due. This 144hz panel feels super immersive, while you're gaming to keep the UI from hogging all the resources. This was picked a near stock, android experience for the row phone 5, with an optional ROG theme on top, which looks a tad bit overdone.

If you ask me nothing that can't be fixed with a few minutes of going around the settings app, but then again with the likes of auxin OS and Samsung, one UI ruling the roost in this segment stock android on a smartphone that cost rupees 50 000, does feel a little too simplistic for everyday use, but for a gaming phone a suit doesn't hold back. The armory crate is where your games reside. It also houses a dashboard to monitor your hardware vitals and set an overall performance profile for all games housed in the app and this time the armory create lets you connect with other ROG phone users with access to a forum within the app. You can also download gaming profiles made by ROG moderators for the games you play to get the best experiences, as for updates. Asus still has Apache record, but considering the ASUS ROG phone 3 received the android 11 updates.

Quite some time back indicates that the company is at least trying to seamlessly transition. This heavily customized phone to the next android build. The kg phone 5 sticks to a 6000mah battery, which roughly gives you the same battery life as the ROG phone 3 last year, which is around 6 hours of sot with time spent majorly gaming. My usage for the review primarily involved running this phone through multiple hoops of our benchmark and gaming tests day after day, which resulted in a 5 hour 30 minute screen on time, which, frankly speaking, is quite average for a flagship smartphone games like Call of Duty mobile and junction impact guzzled around 35 battery per hour. Then again, if you don't really game on the ROG phone 5, which kind of defeats the purpose of this phone, the battery life lasts well over 24 hours in a single charge.

A good improvement. This time is the charging speed. The source has finally brought in support for 65 watt charging, and this is in the universal pd standard, but the 65 watt charger has to be purchased separately in the box. You get a 33 watt charger which topped up the battery from 0-100 in around 60 to 70 minutes. Asus also does good by gamers by including a second USB-C port, which you can use while you're gaming.

It doesn't come in the way, and you can also choose to just power the system and not the battery, while you're gaming to extend the battery longevity. The ROG phone five supports all available 5g bands, so long term use isn't going to be an issue. It also lets you keep two Wi-Fi networks connected while gaming for stable network and there's also option to dynamically switch between mobile data and Wi-Fi, oh, and you can also turn off caddied aggregation if the network is too patchy while gaming, the camera hardware, is top-notch, with a 64, megapixel Sony, mix, 686, primary camera, a 13 megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 5 megapixel macro camera on the front is a 24 megapixel, selfie shooter. That's also used while streaming a game, but despite the good hardware, the source is simply doing the bare minimum for the final JPEG output. There aren't any of the AI optimizations you would expect from a flagship, and while the daytime photos are just about acceptable, it really disappoints in low light photos.

A simple, Guam port whenever it becomes available, should be a good way to week out more out of the camera hardware. The kg phone 5 is designed just like how a gaming phone should be. It takes off all the essentials. The mandatory ROG markings, a pooled ROG logo with programmable lighting, dual stereo speakers, a Pogo pin port for accessories and a sturdy aluminum chassis. The design is more flushed and streamlined this year, there's no air vent and the camera module is ever so slightly raised, rendering a cleaner minimalist design for a gaming phone.

If at all such a thing exists, I must thank ASUS for bringing back the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with the added DAC audio files like res hard, would probably make this their primary driver just for this feature, but it remains too bulky for regular use and the weight distribution is only uniform when holding the phone in landscape orientation. Honestly, this remains a smartphone that will appeal only to serious gamers and that remains a small niche in India. All things considered the kg phone 5. Does that one job it's made out for really well and that is to provide the best gaming experience out there, and this goes beyond just providing stable frame rates and superior visuals, because the kind of controls the row phone 5 offers is something that PC nerds are used to and that's exactly what ROG had set out to do. But there's also another use case for getting this phone, and that is content consumption with a large battery a good display and that excellent audio output.

The rx405 might just be the best companion for that next vacation, you're planning only the weight and the disappointing cameras will be a let-down for that now when compared to phones like the OnePlus 9 and the VIVO x60 pro, which are available at the same price. This one feels like it belongs to a small niche, but that very small niche that it caters to. I doubt anything else will feel as good as the ROG phone file.

Source : MySmartPrice English