With the ever-increasing performance of smartphone, it seems that these performance highlights of gaming smartphones that focus on gaming are not so prominent. But there is no breakthrough in gaming smartphones? Today Red Magic gives a good answer, the specific performance let us take a look at this comprehensive evolution of the Red Magic 9 Pro+ .

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Flat back design, comfortable to hold

The lens module of mobile phones currently on sale is generally convex, and almost no mobile phone's back is not convex. Red Magic 9 Pro+ did this "feat", in a variety of innovative technologies, the back of the body made a completely flat state, the advantage of this state is that the fingers will not have a camera diaphragm in the horizontal screen game, so that the game experience is more comfortable.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

So how did this piece of pure flat glass? First of all, the redesign of the glass, the integrated glass on the Red Magic 9 Pro+ is deeply customised with the industry's head body glass factory, and has undergone rigorous transmittance of light polarisation as well as anti-scratch and abrasion resistance tests, so that this piece of glass not only has normal hardness performance, but also can reach the standard of lens glass quality.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Then there is the component re-customisation, Red Magic 9 Pro+ will be the upper part of a large number of components are re-customised, including the camera hardware has also been improved accordingly, which also allows the thickness of the body to remain the same as the previous generation of 8.9mm, as well as pure flat back cover design, which is considered to be one of the major upgraded highlights of the gaming phone.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

In terms of colour, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ is available in "Dark Knight", "Deuterium Transparent Dark Night" and "Deuterium Transparent Silver Wing", and the "Deuterium Transparent Dark Night" we have in our hands, as the most classic colour, can clearly see the internal chips, screws and other components under the high-transparency glass, and with the dark gold LOGO design, the sense of high class is full.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

In addition, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ has upgraded lighting effects, in addition to the RGB lighting effects on the active cooling fan, as well as the 09 logo next to it and the two shoulder buttons on the side are illuminated. All of these lights have dozens of lighting schemes that can be custom set to your favourite colours, adding a little more ritual to your gaming life.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

On the front, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ features a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen with the same hidden front camera design giving it a 93.7 per cent screen-to-body ratio. The screen debuts BOE's under-screen Q9+ light-emitting material, which not only boosts the brightness to 1600nit, but also improves the visual effects such as colour shift and dark light optimisation, and we use DisPlay CAL to measure sRGB and DCI-P3 to reach 100%, and it supports a high refresh rate of 120Hz, making the gaming screen clear and smooth.

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Superb performance and excellent gaming experience

Red Magic 9 Pro+ is equipped with Qualcomm's strongest core third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, using TSMC's 4nm process technology, the new 1+5+2 full 64-bit architecture, together with the flagship memory combination of full-blooded LPDDR5X and UFS4.0, the performance of the "Iron Triangle" has been upgraded once again, and the AnTuTu score has also reached 223W+ points.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

With powerful performance added, the Red Magic 9 Pro+'s performance in the King needs no introduction. In a room temperature of 25 degrees, the screen is set to very high (120 frames) + extreme image quality, in the included game assistant to open the awakening mode, half an hour of testing down the average frame rate ran out of 120.8 frames, the game is running smoothly throughout the whole game, and the body also has a very serious heat, it can be said to be stress-free.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

The next step was to set the picture quality to very high, set the frame rate to 60 fps, restart the game and directly test the highest load of Sumeru City to run back and forth, using the Night Orchid + Early Yuzu to improve the movement speed. Half an hour of testing down to the average frame rate of 60.3 frames, the overall point of view in addition to a slight fluctuation in the frame rate, but the whole process is almost smooth running, the average power consumption of 5.8W, is a normal performance.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

In terms of cooling, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ adopts the ICE 13 Magic Cooling system, which features 10 layers of precision cooling, as well as an active cooling fan and a large VC heat spreading plate. In the half-hour Original God test above, the temperature of the front of the body was 43.6 degrees, and the temperature of the back of the body was 44.6 degrees. Although the heat is clearly felt, the flat design of the back of the body also improves the gaming experience a little bit.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review


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In addition, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ has the CUBE performance scheduling engine, which can perform AI scene recognition, set exclusive "VIP" seats in gaming scenes, and prioritise gaming processes. It also brings super resolution features, such as the ability to upgrade the native 720P resolution on Proto-Gods to up to 2K quality, or 1674P resolution, so you can enjoy the view while you're gaming.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Endurance, Red Magic 9 Pro has a maximum of 6500mAh super large battery, supports 80W wired flash charging, while the 9 Pro + in our hands is a 5500mAh capacity battery, supports 165W magic flash fast charging, you want longer battery life or faster charging speed or need to choose according to their own habits of use.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

In addition to performance, there are also these improvements

In addition to the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, Red Magic 9 Pro+ also has a self-developed gaming chip, Red Core R2 Pro, which can be based on the player's habits and gaming style, intelligent learning of the user's gaming operations, in order to optimise the overall vibration, lighting, and sound and other personalised settings, in short, your gaming experience will be more comfortable with the longer the use of the more comfortable.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

The Red Magic 9 Pro+'s shoulder keys feature a new glass design that increases the touch area by 90% and improves sensitivity by 20%. This shoulder button is still very useful for games like Peace Elite, where there are a lot of operations, and the shoulder buttons make it easier for you to operate. There is also an extremely advanced 3.5mm headphone jack, which is quite friendly for both listening to sound for gaming and listening to music.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Image, as mentioned earlier, although the back of the body of the Red Magic 9 Pro+ is made purely flat, but the image hardware has also been improved, this time with a 50-megapixel Samsung GN5 main camera + 50-megapixel Samsung JN1 ultra-wide-angle lens dual-camera combination, although it is said that gaming mobile phones are also not very much in need of filming, but the Red Magic is still to do a good job of giving you the image, which is worthy of a nod of praise.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Not only that, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ can also be connected to the handle to play games, such as football, basketball sports games, connected to the handle will have a more comfortable gaming experience. Can also be connected to the monitor, so that the phone directly transformed into a host, connected to the mouse and keyboard can also be operated, it can be said that the Red Magic 9 Pro + can be more than just a mobile phone.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

Summary

Red Magic 9 Pro+ adopts the industry's rare back pure flat design, the back cover integrated glass not only has a normal hardness, but also to meet the camera lens glass light transmission standards, hardware re-stacking can also enhance the let image hardware configuration as well as battery capacity. Powerful third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, with active cooling fan, gaming performance is very good, but also can be connected to an external handle or monitor, unlocking more gaming experience.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review

For the current era of gaming smartphone are not very outstanding performance, Red Magic 9 Pro + with innovative flat design, in the gaming experience to give us a more satisfactory answer, as well as the front no dig hole screen and the new shoulder keys can more or less improve the gaming experience, NFC and infrared added to the gaming smartphone more all-round. If you want the ultimate gaming performance, but also want a phone that is easy to use on a daily basis, the Red Magic 9 Pro+ is indeed a good choice.

Nubia RedMagic 9 Pro+ Review