**A Comparison of Two High-Performance Gaming Phones: Nubia Red Magic 5G and Asus ROG Phone 2**

When it comes to gaming phones, two devices that often come up in conversations are the Nubia Red Magic 5G and the Asus ROG Phone 2. Both phones are designed with gamers in mind, but they have some key differences that set them apart from one another.

I recently had the opportunity to borrow Patrick Holland's Asus phone, specifically the Asus ROG Phone 2, which comes with a rather absurd Asus case. The case is a bit too over-the-top for my taste, and it includes an excessive number of accessories that may not be necessary for every gamer. However, the Nubia Red Magic 5G has a more manageable selection of accessories, including just two or three options. This makes it a better choice for those who are not particularly interested in the array of gaming-related features and accessories.

One feature that sets these phones apart is their support for gaming services. The Asus ROG Phone 2 supports Project X Cloud, while the Nubia Red Magic 5G does not have official support for Google Stadia. However, it's worth noting that both phones lack a waterproof rating, so they should be kept away from moisture.

In terms of connectivity, the Nubia Red Magic 5G has Wi-Fi 6, which is a significant improvement over the older Wi-Fi standards found on other devices. The Asus ROG Phone 2, on the other hand, only supports regular 4G or LTE networks and lacks Wi-Fi 6. It's worth noting that both phones offer customizable performance settings for gaming.

Battery life is also an important consideration when it comes to gaming phones. The Nubia Red Magic 5G has a 4500 milliamp hour battery, while the Asus ROG Phone 2 has a larger 6000 milliamp hour battery. However, it's difficult to compare battery life between these two devices, as they offer different levels of customization for performance.

The prices of these phones are also worth mentioning. The Nubia Red Magic 5G starts at $579, while the Asus ROG Phone 2 starts at $899 in the US. While both phones perform similarly, I would have to say that the Nubia Red Magic 5G is a better value due to its lower price point.

Ultimately, choosing between these two phones comes down to personal preference and individual needs. The Nubia Red Magic 5G offers a more streamlined experience with fewer accessories and no Wi-Fi 6 support. However, it also lacks the customizable performance settings found on the Asus ROG Phone 2. On the other hand, the Asus ROG Phone 2 is designed for those who want to overclock their phone like they do with PCs. The phone's larger size and weight may be a drawback for some users.

It's worth noting that the Asus ROG Phone 2 is nearly a year old at this point, and rumors have been circulating about the potential release of the Asus ROG Phone 3. If these rumors are true, it could drop the price of the ROG Phone 2 and make it more competitive with the Nubia Red Magic 5G.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe asus rog phone - is considered one of the best gaming phones on the market today newbie as red magic 5g is making a run at that title but does the 5g pack enough to dethrone asus let's find out now both of these phones are marketing themselves to gamers and me being a gamer I thought I'd pick him up and try him out for a month I was actually pleasantly surprised by the experience that they both deliver and most importantly the performance both phones performed really well on max settings on a variety of games I really didn't have any issues with dropped frames or game crashes in my month of using these phones it was actually a really nice experience to be able to crank like Puggsy all the way up on both phones and have almost a ps3 kind of graphical experience it was really great both of these phones have some physical attributes that separate them from traditional phones they both have shoulder buttons on the ASIS we have something called the air triggers which also act as a Google assistant button so if you squeeze your phone vertically then Google will come up and ask you what you would like there triggers are only on one side of the phone they're only on the volume rocker side and you really can't see them since they are ultrasonic sensors the red magic 5g has something called pro triggers over here on the top again on the same side as the volume rocker it senses an input 300 times a second so it feels incredibly snappy when gaming but to me honestly I didn't really feel a difference when gaming between both devices the air triggers were both very responsive I actually had some issue with the red magic specifically and pub G for some reason every time I would you know try to move around I would accidentally hit the trigger and the the the the right trigger would activate but other than that I mean to be fair it also happened on the Asus phone sometimes but just not as often as the red magic 5g phone now asus has armory crate which is essentially a games launcher within the games launcher you can find a variety of settings things that change you know like the refresh rate of the screen you can turn on and turn off notifications when specific games are running you can also adjust the performance settings of the CPU in here and there's a lot of features within that armory crate but essentially you could overclock your phone when playing a specific game after launching a game in the armory crate you also have a bunch of options as an overlay called the game genie now that requires you to sort of swipe from one side of the screen to the other to bring up this on-screen display what's the game is loaded and you have the game genie overlay on top you can make adjustments to your air triggers and sort of what buttons they click when you press them you can setup macros for repetitive tasks you can turn on and always-on on-screen display that will give you your stats of your CPU GPU battery life and I even think your temperature and you can activate a Game Capture as well as stream yes you can live stream on the ROG phone to twitch or YouTube now the new bia has something called game space which is activated by pressing the red button here it's very similar to asus is army crate but i would say it's not as in-depth so you have options of you know adjusting the fan speed again you can change the performance per each individual game just don't expect to have a lot of sliders like you would see in the armory crate now once you've launched into the game you can actually bring up the game space 2.1 again by sliding from one side of the screen towards the middle and in there there are actually more features than you would find in the traditional game space launcher you can choose between four different types of performance either auto GPU focus CPU focused or performance focus which you know maximizes everything you can also adjust the shoulder buttons you can adjust macros and you can also block text and block calls all within that overlay screen in the game space you can set up something called red magic moments where it automatically captures for specific games and it can either record the entirety of the game or just moments when you get kills or die all in all I really didn't have any problems with both of the phones specific software I really liked Nubia zabid to adjust the screen refresh rate on the fly especially when you realize the game couldn't get close to 144 Hertz it wasn't useful to burn your battery like that but I did enjoy the ROG phones - incredibly in-depth tuning features which if you're used to overclocking on a PC that's sort of what it felt like I really didn't get too involved with it but when I was scrolling through the settings and seeing all the sliders for the different functions for each individual game I felt that if you were really into to new game and optimizing your performance you'd probably want to go with the ROG phone - but if you're just cool just like hitting you know like give me a hundred percent everything well then the red magic 5g might be for you when you start playing for hours and hours and hours it becomes an issue of heat the asus rog phone tube gets really hot it has a traditional albeit beefed up cooling system and it can be concerning at time I wouldn't say I was worried about breaking the phone but it was really hot the red magic 5g phone fared a lot better when it came to temperatures but it has a built-in fan and it is the second phone to ever do that the first being the red magic three it still got hot don't get me wrong but it dissipated the heat a lot better and when it comes to fan noise however to be honest they both sound like laptops like a laptop that's kind of old and all the fan ports are kind of covered with dust I do have to say that the asus phone does have an attachment which is this little fan do that here it's not something that I carry with me all the time if I was going outside if I were able to slide this phone into my pocket with this attachment on it yeah it's kind of thick and I feel like it would sort of snag as it enters you know my sort of jeans and also I would lose this as far as comfort in the hand even though the red magic 5g has a bigger screen the overall thickness is a little bit thinner than the ROG phone not by much though but because the ROG phone is a little bit fatter it sort of made it feel more like a controller and less like a phone when playing and actually enjoyed the air triggers a little bit more than the red magic phone mainly because the red magic phone is a little bit thinner but then again you know we're talking about phones here thinner is better you know less bezel is better so it's kind of tough to decide which triggers are the best obviously the red magic ones feel a lot snappier but because of the bulbous nests of the ROG phone it felt more like a controller and therefore I liked the air triggers a little bit more personally on the ROG phone let's talk about the displays both of these phones have an AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass six the ROG phone 2 is a six point five nine inch display with a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rate the red magic 5g is a six point six five inch display with a hundred and forty four Hertz display now both of these displays have sort of shown me how far mobile gaming has come as far as graphics goes but it also shows me that there's still a lot of improvement left to do especially when it comes to the frames per second generated by these games more often than not many games are sort of capped at either 30 or 60 fps there are a few games that will achieve the 120 or 144 Hertz fps that's needed to drive these displays but they're just not too common that being said these phones are really X for daily driving scrolling is really nice and buttery smooth text looks nice and sharp videos look good as well we just can't show them to you because to be honest we capture most of our video in 30fps which isn't enough to show 120 or hundred 44 quickly touching on cameras they're just okay the asus phone has three cameras a 48 megapixel and a 13 megapixel wide-angle camera on the back and then a 24 megapixel camera on the front the red magic 5g has four cameras a sixty-four megapixel a 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro lens on the back as well as a 8 megapixel camera on the front so really quickly I'm just gonna show you a couple images that I took especially zoomed in at a hundred percent and yeah these phones they don't have a lot of texture in them there's a lot of mud in the shadows a lack of sharpness a lack of detail tons of chromatic aberration it's really unfortunate too because there's a lot of high specs involved with these like they have tons of megapixels but the cameras themselves are really lacking I would say but again you're not buying this phone for its cameras you're gonna buy it for its gaming features which I've already explained are top-notch let's talk about accessories as you may have seen late last year when ASA sent this phone out for reviews they sent a lot of youtubers a kit full of stuff Patrick Holland graciously is letting me borrow his Asus phone and here I do have the oh really absurd Asus case I just think that ace is kind of went overboard and pried away too many accessories for the phone and then with the Nubia phone they have a fair amount of accessories I think like 2 or 3 which is much more manageable so if you're you know not really interested in the ton of accessories like I am maybe the Nubia will be a better choice for you just because they just have like a controller to be honest for me if I'm mobile gaming if I'm on the go or something like them I'm gonna bring my Nintendo switch but if I'm gaming on a commute you know say to school or to the office or something like that I really don't want to walk around with a bunch of accessories already got a laptop with me most of the time I think the air triggers and the shoulder buttons are just enough for me let's talk about some gaming services Project X cloud is available on both of these phones however if you're interested in Google stadia that is only supported on the ROG phone to the Nubia red magic 5g does not have official support for stadia yet both of these phones also lack of waterproof rating so keep them out of the shower keep him away from steam or anything like that get it it's a PC joke both of these phones have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the Nubia it's located at the top of the phone with the USB charge port at the bottom on the asus rog phone they have both the 3.5 million jack and the USB C charge port on the bottom of the device and finally obviously the most important part of these phones we need to talk about connectivity the red magic supports 5g however I wasn't able to test it before you buy it I recommend checking that your current carriers 5g is supported it also has Wi-Fi 6 so if you have a newer router you can have Wi-Fi 6 speeds on the new via red magic 5g on the asus rog phone - it's just running regular 4G or LTE and it's also running y55 not Wi-Fi 6 so just be aware of that so let's talk about battery life the asus rog phone 2 has a six thousand milliamp hour battery where the red magic 5g has a 4500 milliamp hour battery it's difficult to talk about battery life because both phones offer a lot of customizations for your game as far as performance goes when I was using the red magic 5g I did do a three hour gaming session starting at a hundred percent and after the three hours I was still left with about 50 percent battery now let's get down to the nitty-gritty the price the Nubia red magic 5g starts at 579 while the asus rog - starts at 899 in the US now when it comes to making a choice between both of these phones it gets a little bit difficult both phones perform very similar to each other they both have these shoulder buttons they both have their individual game launchers the Aces phone has a little bit more granularity when it comes to picking performance or individual parameters for performance in the games whereas the Nubia red magic just performs well I mean it has the snapdragon 865 processor in it and it has the faster refresh rate on the screen so making a choices could it be a little bit tougher me but I will have to say that the Nubia red magic just went it over all by the price I mean at 579 you really can't go wrong with it just because they have so many similar features the asus rog phone 2 though does fit better in my hands so it's kind of hard to put this one away I mean with all the tuning features if you're used to overclocking on a PC then you'll feel right at home with this but if you're just looking for something that plays games really well well then the Nubia red magic 5g might be for you it's worth acknowledging that at this point the ROG phone 2 is nearly a year old we've seen rumors of the ROG phone 3 appear and if Asus follows the same release cycle for the ROG phone 1 & 2 we would likely expect an announcement very soon which could drop the price of the ROG phone - making it more competitive price-wise with the red magic 5g well there you have it are you gonna get the newbie a red magic 5g or are you gonna get the asus rog phone to let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching I'll see you next timethe asus rog phone - is considered one of the best gaming phones on the market today newbie as red magic 5g is making a run at that title but does the 5g pack enough to dethrone asus let's find out now both of these phones are marketing themselves to gamers and me being a gamer I thought I'd pick him up and try him out for a month I was actually pleasantly surprised by the experience that they both deliver and most importantly the performance both phones performed really well on max settings on a variety of games I really didn't have any issues with dropped frames or game crashes in my month of using these phones it was actually a really nice experience to be able to crank like Puggsy all the way up on both phones and have almost a ps3 kind of graphical experience it was really great both of these phones have some physical attributes that separate them from traditional phones they both have shoulder buttons on the ASIS we have something called the air triggers which also act as a Google assistant button so if you squeeze your phone vertically then Google will come up and ask you what you would like there triggers are only on one side of the phone they're only on the volume rocker side and you really can't see them since they are ultrasonic sensors the red magic 5g has something called pro triggers over here on the top again on the same side as the volume rocker it senses an input 300 times a second so it feels incredibly snappy when gaming but to me honestly I didn't really feel a difference when gaming between both devices the air triggers were both very responsive I actually had some issue with the red magic specifically and pub G for some reason every time I would you know try to move around I would accidentally hit the trigger and the the the the right trigger would activate but other than that I mean to be fair it also happened on the Asus phone sometimes but just not as often as the red magic 5g phone now asus has armory crate which is essentially a games launcher within the games launcher you can find a variety of settings things that change you know like the refresh rate of the screen you can turn on and turn off notifications when specific games are running you can also adjust the performance settings of the CPU in here and there's a lot of features within that armory crate but essentially you could overclock your phone when playing a specific game after launching a game in the armory crate you also have a bunch of options as an overlay called the game genie now that requires you to sort of swipe from one side of the screen to the other to bring up this on-screen display what's the game is loaded and you have the game genie overlay on top you can make adjustments to your air triggers and sort of what buttons they click when you press them you can setup macros for repetitive tasks you can turn on and always-on on-screen display that will give you your stats of your CPU GPU battery life and I even think your temperature and you can activate a Game Capture as well as stream yes you can live stream on the ROG phone to twitch or YouTube now the new bia has something called game space which is activated by pressing the red button here it's very similar to asus is army crate but i would say it's not as in-depth so you have options of you know adjusting the fan speed again you can change the performance per each individual game just don't expect to have a lot of sliders like you would see in the armory crate now once you've launched into the game you can actually bring up the game space 2.1 again by sliding from one side of the screen towards the middle and in there there are actually more features than you would find in the traditional game space launcher you can choose between four different types of performance either auto GPU focus CPU focused or performance focus which you know maximizes everything you can also adjust the shoulder buttons you can adjust macros and you can also block text and block calls all within that overlay screen in the game space you can set up something called red magic moments where it automatically captures for specific games and it can either record the entirety of the game or just moments when you get kills or die all in all I really didn't have any problems with both of the phones specific software I really liked Nubia zabid to adjust the screen refresh rate on the fly especially when you realize the game couldn't get close to 144 Hertz it wasn't useful to burn your battery like that but I did enjoy the ROG phones - incredibly in-depth tuning features which if you're used to overclocking on a PC that's sort of what it felt like I really didn't get too involved with it but when I was scrolling through the settings and seeing all the sliders for the different functions for each individual game I felt that if you were really into to new game and optimizing your performance you'd probably want to go with the ROG phone - but if you're just cool just like hitting you know like give me a hundred percent everything well then the red magic 5g might be for you when you start playing for hours and hours and hours it becomes an issue of heat the asus rog phone tube gets really hot it has a traditional albeit beefed up cooling system and it can be concerning at time I wouldn't say I was worried about breaking the phone but it was really hot the red magic 5g phone fared a lot better when it came to temperatures but it has a built-in fan and it is the second phone to ever do that the first being the red magic three it still got hot don't get me wrong but it dissipated the heat a lot better and when it comes to fan noise however to be honest they both sound like laptops like a laptop that's kind of old and all the fan ports are kind of covered with dust I do have to say that the asus phone does have an attachment which is this little fan do that here it's not something that I carry with me all the time if I was going outside if I were able to slide this phone into my pocket with this attachment on it yeah it's kind of thick and I feel like it would sort of snag as it enters you know my sort of jeans and also I would lose this as far as comfort in the hand even though the red magic 5g has a bigger screen the overall thickness is a little bit thinner than the ROG phone not by much though but because the ROG phone is a little bit fatter it sort of made it feel more like a controller and less like a phone when playing and actually enjoyed the air triggers a little bit more than the red magic phone mainly because the red magic phone is a little bit thinner but then again you know we're talking about phones here thinner is better you know less bezel is better so it's kind of tough to decide which triggers are the best obviously the red magic ones feel a lot snappier but because of the bulbous nests of the ROG phone it felt more like a controller and therefore I liked the air triggers a little bit more personally on the ROG phone let's talk about the displays both of these phones have an AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass six the ROG phone 2 is a six point five nine inch display with a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rate the red magic 5g is a six point six five inch display with a hundred and forty four Hertz display now both of these displays have sort of shown me how far mobile gaming has come as far as graphics goes but it also shows me that there's still a lot of improvement left to do especially when it comes to the frames per second generated by these games more often than not many games are sort of capped at either 30 or 60 fps there are a few games that will achieve the 120 or 144 Hertz fps that's needed to drive these displays but they're just not too common that being said these phones are really X for daily driving scrolling is really nice and buttery smooth text looks nice and sharp videos look good as well we just can't show them to you because to be honest we capture most of our video in 30fps which isn't enough to show 120 or hundred 44 quickly touching on cameras they're just okay the asus phone has three cameras a 48 megapixel and a 13 megapixel wide-angle camera on the back and then a 24 megapixel camera on the front the red magic 5g has four cameras a sixty-four megapixel a 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 2 megapixel macro lens on the back as well as a 8 megapixel camera on the front so really quickly I'm just gonna show you a couple images that I took especially zoomed in at a hundred percent and yeah these phones they don't have a lot of texture in them there's a lot of mud in the shadows a lack of sharpness a lack of detail tons of chromatic aberration it's really unfortunate too because there's a lot of high specs involved with these like they have tons of megapixels but the cameras themselves are really lacking I would say but again you're not buying this phone for its cameras you're gonna buy it for its gaming features which I've already explained are top-notch let's talk about accessories as you may have seen late last year when ASA sent this phone out for reviews they sent a lot of youtubers a kit full of stuff Patrick Holland graciously is letting me borrow his Asus phone and here I do have the oh really absurd Asus case I just think that ace is kind of went overboard and pried away too many accessories for the phone and then with the Nubia phone they have a fair amount of accessories I think like 2 or 3 which is much more manageable so if you're you know not really interested in the ton of accessories like I am maybe the Nubia will be a better choice for you just because they just have like a controller to be honest for me if I'm mobile gaming if I'm on the go or something like them I'm gonna bring my Nintendo switch but if I'm gaming on a commute you know say to school or to the office or something like that I really don't want to walk around with a bunch of accessories already got a laptop with me most of the time I think the air triggers and the shoulder buttons are just enough for me let's talk about some gaming services Project X cloud is available on both of these phones however if you're interested in Google stadia that is only supported on the ROG phone to the Nubia red magic 5g does not have official support for stadia yet both of these phones also lack of waterproof rating so keep them out of the shower keep him away from steam or anything like that get it it's a PC joke both of these phones have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the Nubia it's located at the top of the phone with the USB charge port at the bottom on the asus rog phone they have both the 3.5 million jack and the USB C charge port on the bottom of the device and finally obviously the most important part of these phones we need to talk about connectivity the red magic supports 5g however I wasn't able to test it before you buy it I recommend checking that your current carriers 5g is supported it also has Wi-Fi 6 so if you have a newer router you can have Wi-Fi 6 speeds on the new via red magic 5g on the asus rog phone - it's just running regular 4G or LTE and it's also running y55 not Wi-Fi 6 so just be aware of that so let's talk about battery life the asus rog phone 2 has a six thousand milliamp hour battery where the red magic 5g has a 4500 milliamp hour battery it's difficult to talk about battery life because both phones offer a lot of customizations for your game as far as performance goes when I was using the red magic 5g I did do a three hour gaming session starting at a hundred percent and after the three hours I was still left with about 50 percent battery now let's get down to the nitty-gritty the price the Nubia red magic 5g starts at 579 while the asus rog - starts at 899 in the US now when it comes to making a choice between both of these phones it gets a little bit difficult both phones perform very similar to each other they both have these shoulder buttons they both have their individual game launchers the Aces phone has a little bit more granularity when it comes to picking performance or individual parameters for performance in the games whereas the Nubia red magic just performs well I mean it has the snapdragon 865 processor in it and it has the faster refresh rate on the screen so making a choices could it be a little bit tougher me but I will have to say that the Nubia red magic just went it over all by the price I mean at 579 you really can't go wrong with it just because they have so many similar features the asus rog phone 2 though does fit better in my hands so it's kind of hard to put this one away I mean with all the tuning features if you're used to overclocking on a PC then you'll feel right at home with this but if you're just looking for something that plays games really well well then the Nubia red magic 5g might be for you it's worth acknowledging that at this point the ROG phone 2 is nearly a year old we've seen rumors of the ROG phone 3 appear and if Asus follows the same release cycle for the ROG phone 1 & 2 we would likely expect an announcement very soon which could drop the price of the ROG phone - making it more competitive price-wise with the red magic 5g well there you have it are you gonna get the newbie a red magic 5g or are you gonna get the asus rog phone to let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time\n"