RedMagic 6R Detailed REVIEW: Gaming in Disguise. By TechNick

Have you ever wanted to buy a gaming smartphone, but haven't because of the gaming look of it or because of the top and bottom bezels above and below the display being too big, or maybe you haven't simply because the phone itself is too big and chunky? If your answer is yes, then team red at red magic have got you covered with the all new red magic 6r, which is- and I quote supposed to be for people that don't want the look of a gaming phone, but still has the specs to be won in this extremely detailed review of the red magic 6r I'll, be testing out its design, display cameras, software gaming, software 144 frames per second gaming benchmarks and, of course, comparing it to other gaming smartphones, and now that we know that red magic have included absolutely everything that you need in the box. It's time to unwrap the star of the show. The red magic 6r comes in two color variants: that being mercury, silver and cosmos. Black, the silver one only comes in the 12 gig ram variants and the black one only comes in the eight gig ram variant. The silver one that I have looks absolutely phenomenal, though very glossy, on the back, not very matte like at all. It has a couple pinstripe lines all around it, giving it a tad bit of gaming, aesthetic, maybe 4 200 William hour battery under the hood and 30 watt, wired charging and, of course, 5g NFC, Wi-Fi, 6e and Bluetooth.5.2 have a plastic back so that it can be more lightweight, go at a glass fronts, and we do have an aluminum metal frame that glossy back plastic does pick up quite a fair deal of fingerprints, so you're going to have to slap on the included cover that comes in the box on day one. If you want to prevent that, we do have a dual sim tray, though no expandable storage option.

We have an USB 3.1 type c port, and we get that adapter in the box which converts it to a 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack and unfortunately, only one single downward firing speaker and dual microphones, one at the bottom and one at the top. We have a volume, rocker and power button on the right hand, side with that. The two pro shoulder triggers 3.0 with 400 hertz touch sampling rates and an 8.3 millisecond response time. These are the exact same ones that you saw on the version earlier on this year, the vanilla red magic 6. It doesn't have the dual feed as you see, on the Lenovo device, and it doesn't have pop-up triggers like you see, on the black shark device, but it is indented which is great.

The camera module at the back looks a hell of a lot like the ZTE accent of 30 ultra, which is actually made by the same company, and it does protrude quite a bit on the back compared to other gaming smartphones around, though the Lenovo a tad bigger than that of the red magic 6r, does pack quite a lot more underneath that camera bump than just cameras, it has quite a fair deal of wobble when on a flat surface and its back design does look very striking, even though it is a gaming smartphone, it looks very low-key. If you ask me, I had preferred those stripes at the back of it not to be. There would have been even more low-key. Nevertheless, it looks fantastic at the back, but what about the front? Well, we are welcome to a 20 by nine aspect: ratio 6.67, inch, AMOLED display it is full HD, plus with a 395 PPI 10 bit color over here, 770 nits, brightness, 144, hertz, refresh rate and 360 hertz touch sampling rate. The 6.7 inch display looks very fantastic in terms of color accuracy when compared to other gaming smartphones around even its counterpart. The vanilla red magic 6 on the left hand, side of it and the white balance looks great too.

It is a tad brighter than its predecessor will not so much predecessor but counterparts. The red magic 6 has 630 units of brightness as opposed to the 770 units on the 6r. The 6r also has minimal bezels compared to other gaming phones, much like the black shark 4 pro and, of course you have 144 hertz refresh rates here, which is one of the stars of the show. Here I have recorded this footage using a professional grade, 180 fps camera, and you can see, there's not a huge difference between 165 hertz on the red, magic, 6 and 144 hertz on the red magic 6r. If you want those numbers, of course, you're going to have to go for the regular 6, but the 6r does a fine job, and I really like those minimal bezels with the punch hole right at the top center of the screen.

Of course, we have an adaptive refresh rate, or you can lock it within the developer options. We can of course, adjust the brightness to get that wonderful, bright, 770 knit display we have anti-flicker display order, reverse so that things pop up at the bottom of the screen. Instead of the top, we can adjust our colors and, of course, there is also dark mode which you can set to come on scheduled times, and it is nice black and deep within most apps and even third-party apps too. Of course. We also have an always on display over here, and we can set a start and end time.

There are no options to keep it always on, though it can show for 60 minutes, which I'm pretty sure you'll check your phone within every 60 minutes just to keep the tank down a bit. Well, the tank up the drain of your battery slightly down. You can customize it a bit with photos, but not as much as we've seen on other phone software, though it does a great job and the pre-loaded always-on displays are fantastic. I simply prefer the simplistic versions. We also have an in-display fingerprint sensor over here, which is the exact same one used under the hood of the red magic 6, and it is just as quick.

It is slightly quicker than that of the ROG phone 5 and the black shark 4 pro actually has a physical sensor, so the red magic 6r is a tad quicker. There too, it's pretty much on par with the novas legion phone 2 pro. We also have faced unlock over here that uses 2d face unlock. So it's unsecured the rest of these gaming devices also use 2d face unlock all being unsecured, and it is pretty snappy on par with the red magic 6, slightly quicker than that of the origin phone 5, as well as the black shark 4 pro, and the legion phone 2 pro has to pop up that camera. So naturally it takes a bit longer to get into the phone.

We have a 16 megapixel selfie snapper in the front, which is actually upgraded from all the previous red magic devices and photos come out nice, clear and crisp with minimal edge detection when in portrait mode, this is tech, neck recording, a 1080p, 30fps video on the brand new red magic 6r. Let me know what you guys: think of the audio and video quality when using the selfie cam on Nubia's latest gaming, smartphone the red magic 6r. At the back of the phone, we have an improved 64, megapixel main camera. We have an ultra-wide camera, which is still at eight megapixels, a depth sensor, which is also still at two megapixels, but now they've added in a macro sensor, which is the fourth camera over here. The eight megapixel ultrawide snap, with 120 degrees field of view, looks pretty great.

The 64 megapixel main looks fantastic, using AI to bin it down to four to one pixel binning looks even better. We have three times digital zoom over here, not too shabby five times. Digital zoom still bearable ten times is the max zoom, though not very usable. Of course, we also have the macro sensor, which is new to the red magic family of devices. It does a superb job over here, though, it's not exactly useful in my eyes, and then we also have the depth effect or the depth sensor, which does a great job using the depth effect over there.

We have 8k at 30fps video over here same as the vanilla red magic 6. It is capped at 30. Fps looks fantastic. Nonetheless, we also have 4k- though it doesn't quite cap out at 60 fps but 56 frames per second for some strange reason. Nevertheless, it's nice and smooth shake free and looking classy, and then, of course, we also have 1080p at 58 frames per second, once again, a little less very strange, but I did figure out the culprit of this, and it is the anti-shake which we'll get to in a sec right over here, 4k 60 fps, now pretty much with ANSI shake or 57 with ANSI shake on, though it does make a big difference.

We have red magic, OS version, 4 skinned over android 11. When it comes to software, it's pretty much as stock as android gets on a gaming smartphone, with the addition of some useful features such as a sidebar as well as multitasking, which we've seen before, and of course you can lock apps as well. Multitasking works great, we do have pip, but it is limited for only certain apps and, of course, we have fully fledged google on this device. Even with Google assistants packed in which is always an extra bonus, the haptics are okay, it kind of feels like a revving car, with each tap rolling into the next one, not quite as good as its predecessor. But what about the speakers? Huh, right, while the red magic 6 has a physical game space switch in the top left corner of the frame, the red magic 6-r, only houses it within the notification shade.

It doesn't even have a separate app for it, though it's pretty easy to get to and once you're in it. It's loaded with the exact same features that you've seen on previous red magic devices, that being the red magic, 6 and 6 pro, which released earlier on this year, which are a little more beefy than this one. But this still packs everything that you need inside it. And, of course, there are no turbofans within this device, like we've seen in every single other red magic device. Before, though, there is a four layer, liquid cooling system, which is great, we do have the game space overlay.

Just like I've shown you on previous red magic videos of mine. You can change the refresh rate on the fly, and you can put an on-screen reticle and record the last 10 seconds of your gameplay as well as use a macro key where you can input a bunch of things and then tap one button for it to redo that in game, which is super useful for RPG games, and you can also, of course, record 1080p 48 bits, and we have charge separation so that your phone doesn't use the battery, but rather the power outlet for juice. And of course we have a fps console which is summing up Oscar in the past. They did bring it with the red, magic, 6 and 6 pro. We can also use super performance mode over here, and we can use enhanced, display adjustments depending on the game that you like, and how you'd like it to look, and we do have a gyroscope, though it's only used in certain games, and you can use these wonderful pro.

Shoulder triggers 3.0 for single press, as you would usually expect. Dual operation, which is actually not supported within Tangshan impact, the game that I'm playing at the moment, but it's pretty nifty to have, and then we can also hold down one of them to use it as the macro which we recorded earlier. We can also press and lift for it to use different things so pressing down for me, sprints and pressing or lifting your finger jumps. We're going to be playing our first game here, which is gang shin impact on its highest possible graphics and max frames per second. I've got a minimum fps of 40 fps here and a max of 60 fps, which is not too shabby, since this is such a graphics, intense game and is literally the benchmark for all games on any smartphone period.

Moving on to PUBG mobile with HDR, graphics and extreme fps, I did try to use the GFX tool to get it up to 90fps, but I couldn't get it to work so, unfortunately, no 90fps yet, but I'm pretty sure the game developers will get on this pretty soon and will be hitting a nice smooth.90Fps going forward Call of Duty. Mobile, however, does have an option for 90fps, though limited at medium graphics. A phone at this caliber should be able to handle ultra graphics and 90fps, which it definitely would be able to, but unfortunately, that's the game developers not allowing support for it just to keep things even on the battleground. I guess, but it still did it at a silky, smooth, 90 fps, moving on to bullet force, which has no frames per second cap, the red magic 6r did it between 133 and 145 fps, actually exceeding the frames that it's actually advertised to do, which is 144, which is fantastic. Of course.

We also have dead trigger 2 over here, also with no fps a cap, but unfortunately the red magic 6r was fluctuating between 91 and 145 frames per. Second, though it was pretty stable. Most of the time, we also have real racing 3, which once again doesn't have a frames per second cap over here, and this was very stable. Only fluctuating between 138 and 145 fps, once again exceeding my expectations of frames per second on screen with the red magic 6r. But what about benchmarks? Well all those snazzy specs, including the snapdragon 888 chipsets, will be set to the test over here running three benchmarks that beam and two to versions: nine geek bench version, 5.4 and 3dmark wildlife version 2.2 we're speeding through them. Now at the start, I did record the start temperature, as well as the start battery percentage.

We will work this out at the end of the three benchmarks that we're running now, and then we'll get some results after that and compare it to other devices around getting to that right. Now it did drain by 12 getting a 29.7 William per minute reading, which is actually better than the red magic 6, and when it comes to temperatures it is summer in shanghai guys I did have the ac cranked up, but it is so ridiculously hot here added 21 degrees in Celsius, which is definitely worse than the red magic 6. Only adding 12.8. But you got to remember the red magic 6 does have an active cooling fad inside it when it comes to an tutu results, the red magic 6r, with slap bang in the middle actually above the regular red magic 6 with 810 143 points, and when it comes to geek bench 5 testing out the CPU over here, the single core clock speed was higher than the red magic 5s of last year, slightly lower than the red magic 6 of this year, but its multi-core clock score was actually worse than the predecessor, red magic, 5s and finally, 3dmark wildlife, which stress tested the GPU department, and it got a score of 5 620, with an average fps of 33.7, which is not too bad. Considering the best one of the lot over here is only sitting at 34.6 fps. The red magic 6r is certainly a unique gaming smartphone, which is masked with the look of a regular phone with all the right things in all the right places.

However, I feel that it would look even better without the subtle gaming lines and cutouts on its rear. The red magic 6r does have an improved main camera sensor and extra lens compared to the regular red magic 6, and while the main camera pictures do come out a bit better, the additional macro sensor isn't exactly needed. The r in the name of the red magic 6r actually stands for racing, which is certainly the case when using its snappy in-display fingerprint sensor, as well as when using it's a very well optimized software skin, which is shown off with its bright and vivid 6.67 inch AMOLED display, which makes things even smoother, with a 144hz refresh rate pair that refresh rates up with its feature, packed game space software pro shoulder touch triggers liquid cooling, snapdragon, 888, chipsets, lpddr5 ram and UFS 3.1 storage, and you have yourself a fully fledged gaming phone that plays games like an absolute champion. But the red magic 6r is not alone in the gaming segment of smartphones. There's always the ROG phone 5 and legion phone 2 pro, which have slightly better build quality and performance, but are both massive and heavy devices which cost a lot more money.

The black shark 4 pro, on the other hand, might have pop-up triggers and look even less like a gaming phone than the 6r, but it's currently only available in China. It's heavier it's skinned with subpar software and once again, it's more expensive and, of course, there's the vanilla red magic 6, which boasts a 165 hertz refresh rate, an active turbo cooling fan a larger battery cell and faster charging, but it looks a hell of a lot more like a gaming smartphone and cost a hundred bucks more too. If you are a power hungry, all-day gamer, then the regular red magic 6 is certainly for you. But if you like to stay more low, key and still game incognito, then there's no better smartphone than the red magic 6r. You.

Source : TechNick