Redmagic 10s is a mid-season upgrade of Pro 10 Pro. This phone came as one of the first Snapdragon 8 elite devices at the end of last year and was the first redmassic to use liquid metal to improve cooling. The company has time to refine its setup since then.
The “major version” of Snapdragon 8 Elite is now available, which overclocks the CPU and the GPU. The two Orian Prime Cores now run on 4.47GHz, which is placed on the original model above 4.32GHz, six performance core. In addition, the Adreno 830 GPU now moves above 1.2GHz above 1.1GHz.
Redmagic 10s Pro Nightfall, Moonlight and Dusk Pro
Other changes are – RAM (up to 24GB) is now LPDDR5T, which should offer more bandwidth compared to LPDDR5X used in 10 Pro. The storage UFS is up to 1TB of 4.1 Pro.
Display
We have with Redmagic 10s Pro and without its cooling fan to see how much difference it is. Let’s look at the first performance – note that the fan does not actually do much for the peak performance, it is mostly about the continuous performance, which is coming in the next chapter.
High, 10S Pro edges with prime CPU core have been taken ahead of 10 Pro in Geekbench Single-Threaded Test and it is ahead of a packet of Snapdragon 8 Elite and Demense 9400 Powered phones. However, once the two prime core has to share the power budget with six performance core, even things with the original model. There are still applications that do heavy single-threaded work, they should see a small collision. Customized apps and games will not see a major benefit.
Geekbench 6
- Multi -core
- single core
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan On)
512GB, 16GB RAM
Red Magic 10 Pro
512GB, 16GB RAM
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan of)
512GB, 16GB RAM
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The GPU overclock has a major impact for gaming and the 10S Pro helped open a lead on competitive devices in the Wildlife Extreme Benchmark. This would translate to high FPS in sports that were not killing the fresh rate cap and the games had more stable gameplays.
Funny, Redmaizic Solar Bay Test, 3DMark’s Ray Tresing does not do so well on the benchmark. The 10S Pro posts a higher score than the 10 Pro, but neither can match the other Snapdragon 8 elite and the demonsal 9400 phone.
3dmark
- Wildlife Extreme (2160 P)
- Solar Bay (1440 P)
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan On)
Adreno 830
1216 x 2688 px
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan of)
Adreno 830
1216 x 2688 px
Red Magic 10 Pro
Adreno 830
1216 x 2688 px
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Adreno 830
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Amar-G 925
1260 x 2800 PX
Red Magic 9S Pro
Adreno 750 (1 GHz)
1116 x 2480 px
AnuTu is a complete-system test, so it tests additional components such as RAM and storage bandwidth. The 10S supporters show a small but noticeable improvement at 10 Pro.
Antutu 10
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan On)
512GB, 16GB RAM
1216 x 2688 px
Red Magic 10s Pro (Fan of)
512GB, 16GB RAM
1216 x 2688 px
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512GB, 16GB RAM
1256 x 2760 px
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512GB, 16GB RAM
1216 x 2688 px
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512GB, 16GB RAM
1260 x 2800 PX
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512GB, 16GB RAM
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512GB, 16GB RAM
1116 x 2480 px
Stability
With the original 10 Pro, the redmaigic added liquid metal – it is an alloy that melts at very low temperatures and has a lot of thermal conductivity. It is used in gaming PCs and laptops as it performs better than typical thermal compounds.
The Redmagic 10s Pro has a 36 mm liquid metal in direct contact with the chip (30% more on 10 Pro). It guides heat in a 12,000 mm vapor chamber that spreads the heat around. But the phone doesn’t just rely on passive cooling – it can, but for gaming you can enable 23,000RPM fan.
Cooling Setup of Redmagic 10S Pro
This fan sucks in cold air from outside, draws it on the phone above the chipset and dump hot air on the other side. In our Redmagic 10 Pro review, we noted that this system was not as effective as it was on the previous generations. Let us see if the refined cooling system on the 10s Pro makes any better.
Unfortunately, the CPU was still very heavy – up to 56% below peak with fan, compared to 54% with fan off (it was 57% and 54% respectively). However, fan collides in the chart.
CPU stability test: Fan of • Fan on
Proceeding on GPU and results are not better. The stability reported by 3DMark in the Wildlife Extreme Test is within the margin of error, as is the performance – both the best and the lowest score from the test.
GPU stability test: fan closed • On fan
Does the fan actually do anything? Actually it does – here is a look through a thermal camera that is showing the phone under the load. You can see the hot air coming out of the phone while heating the desk below (the camera cannot see the air, obviously).
Redmagic 10s Pro in Thermal Vision
Redmagic 10s Pro is a very fast phone – performance is not an issue. However, the active cooling system does not bring sufficient advantage to justify additional costs and complications (such as basic water resistance).
