What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz Tech Reviews so today I bring you a
head-to-head showdown between two kings in the budget smartphone world.
Now these are two of the hottest smartphones you can currently buy under 200
So on the left we have the real me 3 Pro coming in at £199
and on the right we have the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7,
which is currently available for only a £149
so they are both impressive bang for your buck
devices however which one is the best buy between these two we shall soon find
out so first of all the tale of the tape I will put the specs on the screen so
you guys can have a quick read so as you can see both devices have exactly the
same screen tech which is a six point three inch IPS LCD screen with 409
pixels per inch and a resolution of 1080 by 2340 with Gorilla Glass 5 protection
and they both have tear drop notches furthermore both devices are powered by
Snapdragon octa-core CPUs the redmi note 7 has the snapdragon 660 with three gigs
of ram and 32 gigs of internal storage whereas the real me 3 pro has the
snapdragon 7 1-0 with 4 gigs of ram and 64 gigs of internal storage now we've
got android version 9 on both devices with their respective skins on top so
the real me 3 has the color OS version 6 and the redmi note has me UI version
10.3 and i have to say they are both pretty fast in performance now let's
quickly talk about batteries the real me 3 pro has a 4040 milliamp hour battery
and the redmi note 7 has a 4 thousand milliamp hour battery both smartphones
support fast charging so the real me has box charge 3 and I'm happy to say the
fast charger is included in the box whereas the redmi note 7 supports quick
charge for but the fast charger unfortunately is not included in the box
instead you get a regular 5 watt charger furthermore there is a 3.5 mm audio jack
on both devices the real me 3 Pro has it at the bottom and the redmi note 7 has
it at the top but in addition you also get an infrared sensor on the redmi note
7 which you don't get on the real me 3 pro furthermore both devices do not have
any NFC IP rating or wireless charging so that was my very quick side-by-side
specs comparison let's begin with the speed test shall we so the first test is
going to be the boot up speed test but to do that test we've got a power down
first so let's turn both of these devices off ok so trying to at the same
time so we can get an idea which one powers off first so 1 2 3
I was pretty even ok so we're gonna do a boot up speed test so at the same time 1
2 3 go so I'm pressing the power buttons at the
same time I felt a vibration on both you can see the logos so let's see you can
get there first so looks like the rhythm e3 pro got there and a few seconds later
the redmi note 7 so both not bad at all so for the next test we are going to do
the fingerprint test Oh fingerprint sensors are located on the back and they
are quite easy to reach so let's go ahead and see which one is faster I'll
try and do it at the same time so ready 1 2 3 go
so it looks like the xiaomi was a little bit faster let's do that again
well that was exactly the same time exactly the same time and for the last
time yeah the fingerprint sensors are exactly the same speed which is great
very fast now let's check out the face unlock they both support face unlock so
I'm gonna try and activate them at the same time and see which one works faster
so here we go 1 2 3 go alright that was pretty even let's do it again
1 2 3 good so even so it looks like the fingerprint and face unlocking speed on
both devices is more or less exactly the same
so next up we are doing a disk read test so let's test out the internal storage
speeds
so we have interesting results here the real me 3 Pro has a much faster read and
write speeds when compared to the redmi note 7 so now we're going to be doing
game load tests so we're going to load up some games at the same time and see
which one's load first so first of all let's load up
asphalt 9 on both devices so 1 2 3 here we go
so the real me three pro loaded up much quicker than the redmi note 7 let's try
a different game and you'll notice that I'm leaving the games open in the
background so here we go we're going to load up pubs you mobile on three one two
three and just like the real me three pro has automatically started up its
gaming mode so let's see what happens okay so the real me three pro is already
loaded and the redmi note 7 has also loaded as well I would like to compare
some gameplay footage as well so let's get a game started and see what they
both look like so we're comparing the gameplay right now so the real me 3 pro
is at the bottom and the xiaomi redmi note 7 is at the top
it's a pretty smooth gameplay on both as you can see and they look very good on
both I'm going to quickly check out the graphics so we're on HD on the real me 3
Pro I'm on balanced mode on the note 7 so I'll tap HD so the maximum you can do
is HD on both devices and now both devices also on high so the real me 3
was already on HD I've just put the note 7 on HD so they should look a bit
similar now it's a note 7 still smooth in operation yes it is
the note servant still appears to be nice and smooth in operation and it
looks a lot better a lot more detailed so that's pop G mobile game play on both
devices and as you can see they both perform very well on HD settings I'd
like to check out some asphalt 9 gameplay so let's open up the game on
both so we're checking out the gameplay of asphalt 9 on both devices real me 3
real me 3 pro at the bottom and redmi note 7 at the top and this is what you
can expect in terms of gameplay this new some nitro
so the next game we're testing is modern strike online on three one two three you
can see the real me three has already loaded up followed by the redmi note 7
so now we're going to do an app test let's begin with Google Maps so on three
one two three
pretty even there I think the note seven might have the edge so next up we're
going to open Spotify so here we go
redmi note seven took that one so next up we're going to try bt sport so here
we go I think the real me 3 Pro took that but it was very close BBC News even
that was quite even so we're going to do hot UK deals we only three took that it
doesn't seem to be a lot between them speed wise they are more or less
neck-and-neck let's open up the Argos app the real me definitely took that one
so now we're going to do an app which all of us love using including me
YouTube so let's open up YouTube at the same time I think that was quite even so
testing out the YouTube resolution you can do 1080p at 60 frames per second
with HDR on the real me 3 Pro and you've got 1080p at 60 frames per second on the
note 7 so let's just play the videos so the real me 3 Pro is at the bottom and
the redmi note 7 is at the top so which one looks better to you
in my opinion the real me 3 Pro does look better
it's got HDR and the colors are really popping so that was YouTube next up we
are going to test out Netflix so let's get Netflix ready on both 1 2 3 so we've
got Netflix open on both let's go ahead and play something and test the quality
so it's interesting to note that Netflix HD is supported on both devices which is
quite amazing so let's go ahead and check out the quality or both so now
we're going to do a sound test we're going to find out which speakers sound
the best okay so here we go we're going to begin with the real me okay it redmi
note time
so that was the sound test and I have to say both of them sound pretty even
quality to me do let me know in the description if you guys think otherwise
so now I'm going to run a Wi-Fi speed test so we're gonna do it one at a time
because they're both connected to the same router so beginning made the real
me three Pro okay so now the redmi note 7 so here are the results of the Wi-Fi
speed test so the real me three Pro scored forty three point eight download
and nineteen point five megabits per second upload and the redmi note seven
thirty nine point nine and upload speeds of twenty point six I'm actually at
another location so the Wi-Fi speed is different here and the top speeds we get
in this office is between 40 to 45 megabits per second so they're both
giving us a pretty decent Wi-Fi score so here we go GPS test guys so this is an
indoor GPS test and you can see that we have connected to more or less the same
amount of satellites and the GPS performance on both of these devices are
more or less the same and they're pretty good so it's time to check out the
benchmarks beginning with Geekbench you can see that the single core score is
better on the redmi note 7 and the multi-core score is better on the real
me 3 pro so interesting results there let's check out ante two benchmarks and
in the antutu benchmark test we got a hundred and fifty three k for the real
me three pro and a hundred and twenty two K on the redmi note 7 now of course
we're gonna have to talk about the build quality now both devices are made from
plastic now the real me 3 pro is made from a multi-layer plastic body which
they're calling the speedway design and you've got curved corner design and it
does look very nice and i do like this nitro blue color
minute seven is also made from plastic you've got curved corners but you've got
a more flat design as opposed to real means curved back I both have a great
design fingerprint sensor on the back with your dual cameras if we talk about
thickness the real me pro is 8.3 millimeters thick and the redmi note 7
is 8.1 millimeters thick so eight point three versus eight point one not a lot
between them they feel exactly the same in thickness but with a slight
difference in weight now the real me three pro does feel a lot lighter it's a
hundred and seventy two grams and the redmi note 7 is a hundred and eighty-six
grams so that's your aesthetics now if we look at the front of the device we
have a tear drop not on both and very similar sized bezels and chin so very
similar build quality but personally I'm loving the nitro blue color and the
rounded back of the real me three pro as opposed to the flat back on the redmi
note 7 now i know this is a speed test smart phone comparison but we can't
continue this comparison without talking about the cameras because nowadays the
smart phone is not a smart phone without a decent camera now both phones have
dual cameras on the back but they are totally different senses now the redmi
note 7 has a 48 megapixel sampson sensor along with a secondary 5 megapixel depth
sensor and also a front 13 megapixel selfie camera and the redmi note is also
capable of shooting a maximum of 1080p video at 60 frames per second now the
real me 3 pro has a 16 megapixel primary Sony sensor with a secondary 5 megapixel
depth sensor and a front 25 megapixel selfie camera and the real me can shoot
a maximum of 4k at 30 frames per second so now I'm going to take a photo with
both cameras and we will compare them on screen right now to see which one's
better so here we go so here are some photos samples with all enhancements
turned off the real nice 16 megapixel shots versus shall we for t 8 megapixel
shots
it does seem like Shelby's camera has done a better job in nearly every single
photo furthermore in low-light I believe the real me has done slightly better now
this is just a simple indoor photo test if you want to see a more comprehensive
full camera comparison between these two smartphones then leave a like and let me
know in the comments below so there you have it guys that was my speed test
comparison video between the real me 3 Pro versus the xiaomi redmi note 7 so
the design quality is more or less the same and it's subjective to the
individual which ones is better and i personally really liked the nitro blue
on the real me 3 pro so do let me know which one you liked design-wise now
overall performance seemed slightly better on the real me 3 pro everything
loaded generally faster the real me 3 pro does have extra RAM and storage
space and also faster storage speeds which definitely helps in the overall
performance now the Android UI was equally good on both devices gaming
capabilities were slightly better on the real me 3 Pro as it does have its own
dedicated gaming mode camera quality for photos goes to the xiaomi redmi note 7
and if you do want to see a full camera comparison including video slow-mo and
more then do let me know by hitting the like button and leaving some comments
below and yes I do read all your comments now the speaker quality was
equally great on both devices battery life seemed slightly better on the real
me 3 Pro and the real me suck charge 3 was definitely faster than Xiaomi is
quick charge for now the finger and face unlock is very fast on both devices
however you are getting an infrared port extra on the redmi note 7 which you
don't get on the real me 3 pro but all the other features are more or less on
par with each other so bottom line here are two budget smartphones you can buy
right now for under 200 both of these phones will give you a great performance
and allow you to undertake more or less any task you like from gaming to taking
great photos both smartphones are great bang for your buck all-round budget
devices however at this price point you cannot expect NFC IP rating and wireless
charging but for everything else these two phones are very impressive now
there's not a lot between them but I have to say the real me 3 Pro gives you
a slight boost in the overall performance now do you let me know in
the comments below which one is your favorite from these two which one would
you buy if you had a choice and with that being said I will leave the links
in the description so you guys can check both devices out and if you like one of
them you can of course go ahead and pick one up for yourself meanwhile thank you
so much for watching and I hope you all have a brilliant day see you the next
one guys