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The Red Magic 8 Pro: A Gaming Powerhouse with Advanced Display Features

This is the fact that it does support display over USB type-c now we've got a couple different modes as soon as we plug it in we're going to be in mirror mode we've got a wired connection we don't have to worry about any kind of lag. Now you could cast this if you want to but you will run into latency, but we've got another mode here known as console mode. As soon as we flip this switch we're now in console mode, gives us a full screen picture it's going to scale all of our applications up and this is running at 1440p supports controllers it supports a mouse and keyboard.

By the way, this monitor here does have USB type-c video in but you could always use a USB type-c to HDMI adapter so basically once you plug this phone in we've got a console we can play our favorite native Android games. We'll launch one here and as you can see no black bars on the top or the bottom it's going to scale it up to 16x9 or whatever uh aspect ratio your monitor is, I think it'll do 16x10 and 16x9. I haven't tested a ultrawide monitor just yet.

We've still got some performance functionality down here in the lower lefthand corner so we can go to rise mode with it but I do think that this is great especially for emulation and we've also got some settings for a keyboard and controller, we can change the sensitivity of a mouse or you could use the built-in trackpad on the phone screen. We're going to test out Asphalt 9 here and I've got an Xbox controller connected over Bluetooth.

Basically any emulator or game is going to scale up just fine and by the way, we do have plugins to kind of map our controller in case the game doesn't natively support controllers or you could even map a keyboard and mouse if you wanted to. Really awesome features here built in with the Red Magic 8 Pro but my favorite thing to do on this external display is emulation, Ether sx2 with some more PS2 and this is the game I was talking about God of War.

I as we know even on the Snapdragon Gen 1 this one did struggle a bit but on the Gen 2 we're actually at 4X resolution with the openg GL back in and we're running this at full speed, 60fps. I mean this thing is definitely going to be an emulation beast and I will have a full video coming up soon so yeah this is definitely putting down some really great performance.

It is the most powerful Android device that we've tested on the channel so far and in 6 months maybe a year we'll get some something a bit more powerful, that's how technology works but as it sits right now, the Snapdragon Gen 2 paired up with this cooling system here is an absolute Powerhouse and the Red Magic 8 Pro is definitely a gaming phone. I love the new design, I'm glad they didn't go with the old Red Magic look on this one, here I think it was time for a change and I think they did a great job.

I personally love the screen that they have here, I'm a huge fan of these AMOLED displays and coming in at 6.8 in at 120 HZ is perfect for a mobile device like this now I know some people out there might be upset that they didn't go with 144 or 165 but there's not a lot of stuff that we're going to be running at 144 and 165 on a mobile device right now.

But overall, I think it's a great device and like I mentioned I will have a full emulation video coming up so if there's anything specific you want to see let me know in the comments below. And I wouldn't mind making you know a full console mode video testing out a bunch of stuff there for you if that's something you're interested in it'd be really cool if you could hit that subscribe button and maybe think about turning on notifications so you know when I post the next one.

One but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video if you're interested in learning more about the Red Magic 8 Pro Plus or even the Red Magic 8 Pro, I'll leave links to their website in the description and I'd also like to know what you thought about the performance of this new Snapdragon Gen 2 in the comments below. I was actually hoping for a little better single core performance when it comes to those synthetic benchmarks but you know I'm going to chalk it up the software right now.

There is a chance we will get a little better uh when you compare it to the Snapdragon gen 1 plus still on some early firmware here, but for what we have this thing is definitely putting the power down.