Hi guys Chris here back with the Black Shark so this is Xiaomi's first gaming
mobile phone so it's gaming focused you can see we've got this add-on joypad if
you haven't seen on my unboxing this is a bluetooth joypad that you can clip
onto it but you have to have the case on the phone
so in this video here I'm just gonna focus on the gaming performance so we'll
see what kind of frame rates we're gonna get if we're gonna see any slowdown and
then right at the end of this video as well check the thermals over just
physically to see how hot is it getting on the back yard notice that it does
actually get a little bit warm there and that's to be expected when you're gaming
for long durations now if you also missed that unboxing I'll quickly to
show you the antutu scores so it is really good you can see it's massive the
score that's probably one of the highest you will see until probably the one plus
six comes out so the Snapdragon 845 with the Adreno 630 GPU and six gigabytes of
RAM and 64 gigabytes of internal storage here that's ufs 2.1 spec so a very very
quick phone now the UI on it is joy UI version one it's quite lightweight it's
not as heavy as me UI it's just like a skin that's on top of Android 8 so for
this video to get the maximum performance I'm gonna be using what's
called shark space that's that dedicated switch so you switch that up you go into
shark space you're gonna get no interruptions
it is also supposed to boost the gaming performance now just give you a very
quick overview on this this video is about focusing on the gaming but all
your games are listed in here normally they are automatically added if they're
not then you have to go through the menu system here and just add those games to
that so every single game you need to actually set up the controller so you go
into the game pad here when you swipe down on the home bottom it brings this
up so you need to remove around the on-screen controls so you can see right
now here I've got this already set up and configured for pub G so tapping this
that is actually gonna be my scope to zoom in that one there's this going to
be the fire button and you see moving that around that it's going to be the
movement now if you don't like the movement then you could actually move
that over to aiming if you wanted to aim with the joystick then that is possible
to set that up at anyway let's get into the game play and see how it performs so
I thought I'd quickly show you the start here because often you get a bit of lag
and you see that it's very smooth right now rendering all those different
players in there that's not a problem but now and then you do see a little bit
of stutter here and there and it's not running full 60 frames per second I
don't have an FPS counter on this but I can tell that it's just not 100% it's
not 60 frames per second i know this because i've been playing other games
that do have frames counters on them so you can see the FPS
and when they're running 60 you really do know is this to me as around about 40
or something like that so one thing to point out with these controls is that
you can't get the sprint block because the joysticks just not gonna push up
further enough so there's one thing to think about too when you're playing this
game so if you want to lock the sprint then you still have to do it with your
finger there manually and the way i have it configured so the scope is just here
to look down on at least the barrel i want to have this scope so that's easy
enough to switch to that it's quite quick and then of course do fire that
also means that for driving of course the controls aren't set up so again
gonna have to just switch back to using the touchscreen so it might actually
just be more comfortable just to go with the touchscreen to start with so this
next time i'm looking at is called lineage revolutions and this is probably
one of the most demanding games actually that i'll test out you sometimes see a
little bit of stuttering lag so the graphics is very demanding it's another
one those ones based on the Unreal Engine so I did have to configure the
controls a little bit I did have some problems with the gamepad if you sit it
right on where the joystick is with the on-screen buttons it didn't actually
work too well so this is how I saved it I'll just set up the attack on one of
the the triggers here on the top of course I'll just show you quickly a bit
of gameplay so using that trigger it's not super comfortable as I mentioned in
the unboxing and my follow-up review that it's sometimes it's just easier to
use the on-screen controls of course we've got way more buttons here I've
only got two bands on this so there's not a lot there but the performance of
this game is good it's just now and then you see a little bit of slowdown so it's
definitely not running a continual 60 frames per second not at least with this
demanding game this total now is called standoff - and it's super similar to
Counter Strike him just a ripoff of counter-strike but of
course running here on Android no do you have the trigger set up so the triggers
are for firing and whoops a manage to trigger the menu don't know how I
managed to do that should actually be disabled and define the controls a
little bit difficult on this one oh did already you see with the frames counter
at least this game actually has an FPS counter on it it's 59 60 frames per
second the whole time no matter how many players are on the server and what's
been rendered in front of you it's always a steady 60 frames per second so
it's really really smooth very fast as you can see here so this run runs
perfect now one other question that did pop up is what about the built-in screen
recorder now it's right here the quality is not that great so some of the free
screen recorders you will get off Google Play Store actually do a better job
because they record audio there's no settings for this it's either on or off
it just starts recording here so you can set it up to start recording like it's
on right now but the problem with it is it does not record any audio from the
game or the microphones this next title is Ashfield extreme in this one it's
better without a controller really so I'm going to be using the accelerometer
for the steering and everything as you normally would
see it's running fine a couple of little stutters here and there
the starter here now is shadow fight three really good looking game and let's
see what it's like now with the joystick
seems to be a little bit easier in fact to control
and pretty easy one there for me so this total here is called critical ops and it
does also have a frame counter right up here you can see 59 frames per second
the whole time and yes it's another Counter Strike clone as you can see well
bomb defusing planting bombs things like that well and I'm about to die
okay one kill well let's set something
to so it does make the controls a lot easier I find having the joypad but it's
not entirely comfortable I'm starting to get a little of a sore hand because of
how small it is and this title here is hit or hero's of
incredible tales quite a graphically demanding game it does look really good
too and this is running fine you see the occasional little stutter but I think
it's more to do with the internet and things loading in so these are the
settings that I have on that's in the game panel as well I thought to show you
this so the framerate optimization this apparently supposed to boost performance
this is some sort of acceleration service I think it's using a VPN to make
things a little bit faster with your ping times a super touch that just
increases the touch response there I haven't honestly noticed much difference
at all between having it on or off it seems to the same to me now game lab
this is to do with the LED lights that are on the back of this but this seems
to only work in China or with Chinese games so I do actually have this enabled
it is on the light effect this is the LEDs that will light up actually behind
the logo so it will change color will turn red and it's basically RGB there is
also some lights in here but I've never seen it actually come on for any of the
games that I have tested so that's why I think it's just Chinese
only titles that it supports so this title is World of Tanks and this
one I feel is a little bit better to control actually with the controller
here you can see just for getting around with the tanks sometimes can be a little
bit awkward and I've configured the controller so one is just a toggle
magnification to zoom right and the other of course is to fire and I find
that works quite well but no issues with the framerate like
all of the games I have tested every single game is running super smooth
really good frame rates here this I would say is running at 60 frames per
second without a doubt this is just so smooth
od and I'm about to probably die here
okay so I haven't covered every single game here but that is it for this video
otherwise it will be too long I hit something like 20 different games
requested but just know that it's going to run in every single game the
Snapdragon 805 on this mobile on any mobile like the me mix 2s ok so this
thing is barely getting warm it's around 30 degrees there you can see just on the
back and I have actually been gaming for about an hour and a half I spend a lot
of time downloading things as well and using it and gaming so that's not bad at
all it barely gets warm it's a lot cooler than the surface of the meme x2
is differently that one seems to heat up a bit where it does get a little bit
warm where I have seen it hit 35 degrees which is still nothing is when you're
charging at the same time and gaming so I have done about 6 hours of gaming now
in total with this gamepad and I can safely say that it's a little
uncomfortable at times I'm finding that I'm getting a bit of a cramp or ache in
my thumb here so that is not good and really is it worth getting it just for
that controller I don't think it is just get yourself something like this one of
these controllers there's so many out there all these different models
Bluetooth controllers and there are apps out there that you can map the on-screen
controls using a Bluetooth controller so the games that don't support it you
can't actually get it to work and that'll work quite well the good thing
about this of course this is very similar the ergonomics to an Xbox 360
controller so this is really comfortable you're not going to get any cramps with
us when you can play for hours on end and yours gotta flip this up and example
the mix 2s you can put that right in there and there you go okay gaming like
this is a lot more comfortable cause it's a bulky joystick it's not as small
as this but it really depends on on what you need to heat something that's more
portable okay this is alright and and using it especially I've noticed in
games like World of Tanks it does make it a lot more easier to control your
tank to drive around and things so it does help out thanks a lot for watching
this gaming review here now I'm working towards the full review of the Black
Shark here I also have in my position as well the Mi 6x if you're interested in
that check out my unboxing video and I will also be taking a look at shell mise
me gaming laptop hopefully next week