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 giga ram variants and the black one only comes in the eight giga 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 milliamp 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 gonna 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 a 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 would have 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 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's
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 novos legion phone 2 pro we also have face 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 origi
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 bit 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 on 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 bit more beefy than this one but this
still packs everything that you need inside of it and of course there are no turbo fans 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 an 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 gangshan 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 up your finger jumps we're gonna be playing our first game here
which is gangshin 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 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 chipset will be set to the test over here running
three benchmarks that beam and two to version nine geekbench 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 milliamp 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 of it when it comes to antutu 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 geekbench 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 testes 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
gamespace 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