The RedMagic 10S Professional is a mid-season improve of the 10 Professional. That telephone arrived late final yr as one of many first Snapdragon 8 Elite gadgets and it was the primary RedMagic to make use of liquid steel to enhance cooling. The corporate has had time to refine its setup since then.
The “Main Model” of the Snapdragon 8 Elite is now obtainable, which overclocks the CPU and GPU. The 2 Orion Prime cores now run at 4.47GHz, up from 4.32GHz on the unique mannequin, the six efficiency cores keep put. Additionally, the Adreno 830 GPU now runs at 1.2GHz, up from 1.1GHz.
RedMagic 10S Professional in Dusk, Moonlight and Nightfall
There are different adjustments – the RAM (as much as 24GB) is now LPDDR5T, which ought to provide extra bandwidth than the LPDDR5X used within the 10 Professional. Storage is as much as 1TB of UFS 4.1 Professional.
Efficiency
We examined the RedMagic 10S Professional with and with out its cooling fan to see how a lot of a distinction it made. Let’s take a look at efficiency first – observe that the fan doesn’t actually do a lot for peak efficiency, it’s largely about sustained efficiency, which is developing within the subsequent chapter.
With the Prime CPU cores clocked greater, the 10S Professional edges out forward of the ten Professional within the Geekbench single-threaded take a look at and is forward of a pack of Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 powered telephones. Nevertheless, as soon as the 2 Prime cores must share the facility price range with the six Efficiency cores, issues even out with the unique mannequin. There are nonetheless purposes that do heavy single-threaded duties, they need to see a small bump. Optimized apps and video games received’t see a giant profit.
The GPU overclock has an even bigger affect for gaming and helped the 10S Professional open up a lead on competing gadgets within the Wild Life Excessive benchmark. That may translate in greater fps in video games that weren’t hitting the refresh fee cap and extra secure gameplay in video games that have been.
Unusually, the RedMagic doesn’t achieve this effectively on the Photo voltaic Bay take a look at, 3DMark’s ray tracing benchmark. The 10S Professional posts a better rating than the ten Professional, however neither can match different Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 telephones.
AnTuTu is a whole-system take a look at, so it exams extra elements like RAM and storage bandwidth. The 10S Professional reveals a small however noticeable enchancment over the ten Professional.
Stability
With the unique 10 Professional, RedMagic added liquid steel – that is an alloy that melts at very low temperature and has very excessive thermal conductivity. It’s utilized in gaming PCs and laptops because it performs higher than typical thermal compound.
Within the RedMagic 10S Professional there may be 36mm² of liquid steel in direct contact with the chip (30% greater than there was on the ten Professional). This guides warmth to a 12,000mm² vapor chamber that spreads the warmth round. However the telephone doesn’t depend on simply passive cooling – it may, however for gaming you may allow the 23,000rpm fan.
The cooling setup of the RedMagic 10S Professional
This fan sucks in cool air from the skin, pulls it throughout the telephone over the chipset and dumps the now heat air out the opposite aspect. In our RedMagic 10 Professional evaluation we famous that this technique wasn’t as efficient because it has been on earlier generations. Let’s see if the refined cooling system on the 10S Professional does any higher.
Sadly, the CPU nonetheless throttles fairly closely – all the way down to 56% from peak with the fan on, in comparison with 54% with the fan off (on the ten Professional it was 57% and 54%, respectively). Nevertheless, the fan does easy out among the bumpiness within the chart.
CPU stability take a look at: fan off • fan on
Shifting over to the GPU and the outcomes aren’t any higher. The steadiness reported by 3DMark within the Wild Life Excessive take a look at is inside the margin of error, as is the efficiency – each one of the best and lowest rating from the take a look at.
GPU stability take a look at: fan off • fan on
Does the fan really do something? Certainly it does – right here’s a glance by a thermal digital camera exhibiting the telephone below load. You may see the nice and cozy air popping out of the telephone heating up the desk beneath (the digital camera can’t see the air itself, clearly).
RedMagic 10S Professional in thermal imaginative and prescient
The RedMagic 10S Professional is a really quick telephone – efficiency will not be a problem. Nevertheless, the lively cooling system doesn’t deliver sufficient profit to justify the additional value and problems (e.g. the fundamental water resistance) related to it.
