red magic a sub-branded company of nubia released their very first smartphone just three years ago
in 2018 and did so with a bang by releasing the world's first gaming smartphone with a cooling
system a few months later they released the red magic mars the first phone ever
with shoulder triggers in 2019 they released the red magic 3 and 3s which were the first phones
to pack an actual cooling fan into a smartphone in 2020 they brought us the world's first 144hz
refresh rate smartphone display with the red magic 5 and 5s it's now 2021 and just a few months ago
red magic announced the red magic 6 and 6 pro which upped the ante in terms of screen refresh
rates by bringing it all the way up to 165 hertz just a few months later red magic revealed the 6r
which brought gaming hardware to a phone that looks just like any other and just
as we thought the euros all but done for team red they announced this the red magic 6s pro
which builds on the success of the red magic 6 pro but goes the extra mile by adding a transparent
back plate with an rgb fan jumping up performance with the snapdragon 8 plus chipsets and increasing
their pro shoulder triggers to 450 hertz as well as their display touch sampling rates
all the way up to 720 hertz it does all this and more while keeping the same great price
the red magic 6s pro comes in two different color variants you can pick it up in a
solid backplate black cyborg color for the one that i have which is the transparent
ghost edition which showcases the rgb fan under the hood there and it looks absolutely phenomenal
writing with a gold pin showing you the different components under the hood that includes a 5050
milliamp hour battery 66 watt flash wire charging 5g wi-fi 6e bluetooth 5.2 and nfc we have gorilla
glass 5 on the front a glass back and an aluminum frame that gloss back however does
pick up a fair share of fingerprint smudges so you're going to want to use the included
case in the box which doesn't really prevent protection from the back plate completely
so i would say just scratch this take it off and move on forward dual sim 5g and standby
tray over here there is a water resistant seal very strange their usb 3.0 type c port we have
the first speaker at the bottom and the other one found in the earpiece these are dual dtsx
ultra speakers we have a headphone jack and triple microphones one at the top one at the bottom one
on the right hand side on the left hand side we have a volume rocker game space switch and intake
fan vents on the other side we have the exhaust fan vans we have the power button and of course
the upgraded pro shoulder triggers which now have increased the touch sampling rate from 400 to 450
hertz we also have a third touch trigger which is at the back it is just a touch slide panel
over there which is pretty neat nonetheless and the camera bump is much of a muchness compared
to the red magic 6 very tiny compared to other devices around meaning that there shouldn't be
much of a surface wobble effect when on a flat surface but there is because the phone is pretty
curved at the back and talking about designs over here i've never seen something quite like the 6s
pro thanks to that half cut out transparent back it is also slightly lighter at 215 grams and just
9.5 millimeters in thickness but what about that display well it is indeed the same panel that
we saw on the red magic 6 pro before it's 20 by 9 aspect ratio 6.8 inch amoled display it is full hd
plus we have 100 dcrp 3 color gamut rating 700 nits peak brightness 165 hertz refresh rates
720 hertz touch sampling rate and comparing the color accuracy to other phones around
even the red magic brothers on the left-hand side it is just as colour-popping as those and just as
color accurate too it is even as color accurate well as white balance accurate as it can get when
it comes to smartphones especially when it comes to a gaming phone and that wonderful 700 nits
peak brightness is slightly higher than the red magic 6 and 6 pro that we saw before it but not
the highest around it is still nice vibrance and bright of course we don't have a notch instead we
have the selfie camera on the border at the top and of course we have that 165 hertz refresh rate
which matches the red magic 6 and 6 pro before it we have the red magic 6r all the way on the
left which is capped at 144 hertz as well as the rg phone 5 and the zte accent 30 is capped at 120
hertz all of these refresh rates in my opinion do the job pretty well but the 165 hertz is just
so darn smooth it is adaptive and you can fix the refresh rate in developer options of course we can
fiddle with the brightness levels as well as the screen color preferences we also have dark mode
over here which gives us a nice dark deep black and third-party apps as well as first party apps
over here and it does darken things on the home screen too as well as the notification shade and
yes we do have an always-on display no surprise this time around of course we've seen it for quite
some time from nubia red magic team and it looks pretty great you can customize slightly they do
have the animated ones which look great i prefer the more simple standard ones we do now have a
seventh generation under display fingerprint sensor and yes it can now detect your heart
rate so let's see how it compares to my galaxy watch active two and it's pretty much neck and
neck pretty impressive on your first try team red at red magic now comparing that fingerprint sensor
to other ones around it is similar to the red magic 6 and 6r but it seems to be a tad quicker
than those attack quicker than the rog phone 5 and once again a tag quicker than the zte accent
30. we do have facial recognition over here though it is 2d face id and it is once again on par with
other red magic devices slightly slower than other phones around though remember this is just using
the selfie cam talking about selfie cams it is an 8 megapixel selfie snapper same one that we saw on
the 6 pro it looks pretty decent if you ask me but portrait mode doesn't really seem to work this is
technic recording a 1080p at 30 frames per second selfie video on the brand new red magic 6s pro of
course the selfie video is capped at 1080p and 30fps it doesn't look too bad at night taking a
pic at night doesn't have a night mode option but turning the flash on looks a hell of a lot better
and at the back we are welcome to a 64 megapixel samsung gw three main sensor and eight megapixel
hynix hi846 ultrawide snapper and a two megapixel macro sensor the eight megapixel ultrawide doesn't
look too bad 64 megapixel made looks pretty great the 16 megapixel bin looks even better thanks
to ai doing the two times digital zoom since there is lack of a telephoto camera over here
five times digital doesn't look too bad ten times is the max zoom doesn't look the best around
and you can get up close and personal thanks to the included 2 megapixel macro sensor which is one
of the best ones that i've tested around of course we can also test out the bokeh effect over here
and honestly it does just as great of a job as i've seen from premium camera flagship devices we
can also record 8k at 30 frames per second this is the maximum resolution and the maximum frame rate
that we can actually use at 8k we can bump that up to 60fps when recording at 4k which looks nice and
smooth even smoother than 8k of course jumping up to 60fps still nice and crispy thanks to the
4k resolution 1080p dumps down the detail a little bit but gives us an even smoother experience over
here since it has to do less processing to render this video and 1080p at 60 frames per second with
ansi shake off an ansi shake on does make a bit of a difference when you do decide to enable it
4k 60 fps at night doesn't look the best no knight video over here 1080p 60 fps that doesn't look the
best either but you guys got to remember this is a gaming smartphone 8 megapixel ultrawide at
night not really the best but the night mode on looks average as well as the digital zoomed shots
with night mode on and off once again guys this is a gaming phone gaming is what it's all about
not taking photos but if the time does arrive where you do need to take a snap here and then
it still does a more than decent job of course we have red magic os version 4 skinned over android
11 over here it is literally as stock as android gets in terms of gaming smartphones i haven't seen
a gaming smartphone do it as well as red magic have done over here of course we have things
such as split screen and all these extra widgets to flare up the os skin that tad bit adding the
cherry on top to make it even more enjoyable and yes google services work with google discover on
their left hand side as well as hey google google assist of course the haptics are just
as solid as the 6n6 pro but how do the speakers stack up against the red magic 6 and rog phone 5.
with the wind
great
that was gross
of course that fan at the back is not just for looks it is actually a 20 000 revolutions per
minute turbo fan intake from the left exhaust from the right hand side and though it looks
stunning it actually does a fantastic job of sucking air through the left hand side
and shooting air out the right hand side as you would expect but how loud does it get
of course we have the same ice 6.0 cooling that we saw in the red magic 6 and 6 pro
though we're lacking the aircraft aluminum backplate that we saw on the 6 pro we have
now been treated to pcm pcm is a new aerospace grade phase change material which apparently
upgrades the multi-dimensional cooling system overall you can of course enable the led effect
on the fan that rgb light that you see within the fan or disable it if you don't like it turning it
on and off over here i must say it is really striking when it is enabled we do have the
led logo at the bottom though unfortunately the logo in the center of the phone does not light up
those two will just have to do personally i think they look great picking the switch at the top left
corner of the phone we are welcome to gamespace 4.0 slightly different not quite sure why there
is chinese writing over here this is indeed the global variant nevertheless it will get changed
with a software update i'm pretty sure going into a game jumping into that game space overlay over
here you can see that some things have changed we now have infinite performance mode instead of
super performance mode and i'm sure it does just as great of a job we can also use pop-up windows
change fps on the fly jump into back recording enable or disable the turbo fan and yes the fps
overlay has still stuck around we do have charge separation as we've seen from the last year from
red magic and of course the upgraded pro shoulder triggers we don't only have them improved but we
have an extra one on the back plates over here which is impressive to say the least
it doesn't always work but when it does feels really cool and i have no doubt that they will
improve this going forward it is a nice little addition to the red magic 6 series devices we can
of course change things to single press long press multi-operation dual operation press and lift for
separate operations and the back one can be used to slide for a single or dual operation our first
game over here is genji impact throwing things on the highest possible graphics as well as the max
frames per second the game is capped at 60 fps even though the phone can go all the way up to
165 the game itself is kept at 60 and the red magic 6s pro is doing a fantastic job keeping
it between 48 and 60 frames per second the mi mix 4 with the same chipset went all the way down to
17 frames per second pubg mobile now unlocks on day one of the red magic 6s pro launch 90 frames
per second and keeps things nice and close to 90 even exceeding my expectations jumping all the
way up to 92 fps but it forces another game with an unlimited frame rate cap over here and we're
sitting between 145 and exceeding the 165 hertz refresh rate once again going all the way up to
168 frames per second dead trigger too another game with no frames per second cap over here
keeping it a little bit on the lower end of the 100 hertz refresh rate 108 to 164 fps those still
very impressive since the graphics have upped the ante since the previous game we tested real racing
3 cannot adjust the graphics or fps frame rate is uncapped over here and we are sitting between
151 and 167 frames per second but what about benchmarks testing out that wonderful snapdragon
8 plus a cpu chipset of course at the start we're going to be checking the battery percent as well
as the temperature we will be turning the cooling fan on the fast cooling option over here and we'll
be using gamespace 4.0 with infinite performance to jump through antutu version 9 geekbench version
5 as well as 3d mark wildlife version 2 and getting to the results of the battery drain
right now we managed to get a drain of a nine percent with a rate of 25.3 milliamp hours per
minute and while the temperature did increase by 21.8 degrees in celsius you have to remember that
even with three air conditioners in my house shanghai is still ridiculously hot right now
when this score popped up i could not believe my eyes 884 527 points in antutu version 9.1.4
this is the single highest antutu score i have ever seen in the world let alone on my channel
trumping other phones with the same chipset things aren't quite as impressive when it comes to single
core score in geekbench putting it right at the bottom but when you look at multi-core score over
here it actually comes out right on top compared to all of these other devices and while the honor
magic 3 pro plus with the same snapdragon triple eight plus chipsets slightly out did the red magic
6s pro when it comes to 3dmark wildlife testing out gpu performance over here it only beat it by a
point one frames per second where the red magic 6s pro got a crazy score of almost 6 000 and 35.4
fps trumping all that below it the red magic 6s pro is sure to be a head toner thanks to that
transparent cutout on its backplates revealing the incredible rgb cooling fan alongside some of
the phone's hardware specifications it looks absolutely phenomenal but my only request is
that next time they allow us to see the actual components of the phone instead of cardboard
cutouts the 6s pro's camera system is still more than capable to take some great looking pictures
and videos but the trio of cameras hasn't changed for some time and i'd like to see the addition
of a telephoto camera the 7th generation under display fingerprint sensor is accurate and snappy
and the addition of a heart rate monitor is definitely a welcomed bonus the newly
added widgets make the already great software experience even more enjoyable and of course the
display is just as vibrant and colorful as the 6 pro before it and still packs in the super fluid
165hz refresh rates but now ups the ansi with a 720hz touch sampling rate and when paired with the
new gamespace software upgraded snapdragon 8 plus chipset 16 gigs of lpddr5 ram and 256 gigs of ufs
3.1 storage holds and dominates any game you throw at it and let's not forget about the snappier
touch shoulder triggers 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as well as the impressive 20 000 revolutions
per minute turbo fan which shines through the transparent back plates with rgb lights while
the red magic 6s pro is a monster of a device when standing on its own there are a few other
phones out there looking to take top spot the zte accent 35g is one of them with its massive 6.92
inch display an impressive under display selfie camera but the red magic 6s pro bolsters ahead in
terms of design gaming features and performance its little brother the red magic 6r is a great
addition to the family and brings an incognito gaming experience to the smartphone world
but lacks fast 66 watt charging a cooling fan and a 165 hertz refresh rates the rog phone 5 and 5s
do certain things better than the red magic 6s pro but lack the impressive 165hz refresh rate
and internal cooling fan not to mention they cost quite a bit more money the red magic 6 and
6 pro are still very great gaming phones and while it doesn't make sense to upgrade to the
6s pro if you already own one of them the fact that the redmagic 6s pro costs the same price
makes it a no-brainer purchase for anyone looking to upgrade from last year's red
magic 5 series devices and if you are looking to upgrade from the red magic 6 pro i wouldn't
blame you after all you can actually see an rgb led fan rotating in the 6s pro's transparent
backplate making the redmagic 6s pro one of the best looking devices i have ever tested you