It's no secret that modern Android phones often pack unnecessary specs: I'm looking at you, 108MP cameras and 4K displays, and the new Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro brings more.
This is a new gaming phone from a company that has made quite a few at this point (hence the '7' in the name), so you might think it would know exactly what gamers need. Well, what they apparently need is more RAM than your average gaming PC.
That's right, the recently unveiled Red Magic 7 Pro is available in some configurations, and they're capped at 18GB of RAM. Or, if you want to stick with a measly 16GB of RAM, you can bump it up to 1TB of storage space. Its alot.
When I took the phone out of the box and saw the high specs on the side of the box, I was quite surprised. But it wasn't until I was gaming on my gaming PC that I really tweaked those specs.
Beat my gaming PC
Built in 2021 to handle high-end games plus anything DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects can throw at it, my gaming PC has "only" 16GB of RAM.
This was an amount that when I bought the parts they sold me as enough for these intensive processes. And, after using the PC for months, it seems good enough to play games or make videos. So 16GB is great for tasks you wouldn't even do on a smartphone.
The PC also has a 1TB SSD, the same amount of storage space as the Nubia phone. Granted, it wasn't the best decision on my part, and I just ordered a 6TB hard drive, but it shows that the Red Magic 7 Pro also matches my gaming PC on storage space.
Obviously, when you switch to the other specs, my gaming PC has the Nubia beat, but even when it comes to RAM, I don't understand why the phone needs it so badly.
I should note that neither the 18GB nor the 1TB models of the Red Magic 7 Pro are for sale in the US but both versions, which have 16GB RAM, the same as my PC, so my point remains .
the state of the game
When it comes to mobile gaming, there's one simple fact that undermines much of the marketing fluff around gaming phones.
Cell phones are not like consoles; It's not just two or three versions that all players have. There are hundreds of different types of mobile phones, and to ensure that all mobile phone owners can play together, most titles are optimized for play on all devices.
You don't need a super powerful mobile to play PUBG, Call of Duty, Fortnite or Genshin Impact. Any fairly modern device can do this, but maybe not on the best graphics options.
It's a curious, but appreciated difference mobile has with the PC - many PC developers are happy to just shrug and say "well some players can't play our game" to the exclusion of users who don't have the top end. Specifications.
Perhaps because they are designed to be portable and easily accessible, or perhaps because mobile developers are vying for your attention, any old phone can play all the most popular games. .
With that in mind, 18GB of RAM is simply unnecessary. I daresay you don't really need more than 8 GB, and some won't even need that.
So why are phone companies, especially Nubia, pushing so hard for extra RAM like this? Well, it's hard to know for sure, but I can think of one reason: I wouldn't write this article if the phone had a normal amount of memory.