**Red Magic 7 Review: The Most Powerful Android Phone So Far**

The Red Magic 7 is the latest flagship phone from the Chinese company Red Gaming, and it boasts one of the most powerful processors on the market. With its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, this device can handle even the most demanding tasks with ease. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the Red Magic 7's performance, emulation capabilities, and other features.

**Benchmarking Performance**

To start off, let's take a look at some benchmarking results from various tests. I ran Antutu on the Red Magic 7 and was able to achieve a score of over a million points, with a GPU score of 448,000. For comparison, the same phone scored 632,893 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip in the S21 series. These results show that the Red Magic 7 has a significant edge in terms of performance.

**Emulation Performance**

One of the most exciting features of the Red Magic 7 is its emulation capabilities. I decided to test out various emulators on this device, including Dreamcast using Redream, 3DS using Citra, GameCube and Wii using Dolphin, and PS2 using Ether SX2 for PS2. The results were impressive, with all of these devices running smoothly and without significant lag or glitches.

For example, I was able to run Dreamcast games at 60 frames per second in high resolution, even with the highest graphics settings enabled. This is a testament to the Red Magic 7's powerful hardware and the emulator's optimization. Similarly, Citra and Dolphin were able to handle 3DS and GameCube/Wii games with ease, respectively, with minimal lag or stuttering.

**Emulation Examples**

To give you a better idea of just how good these emulators are on the Red Magic 7, let me show you some examples in action. Here's Dreamcast running at 60 frames per second in high resolution:

[Video clip of Dreamcast gameplay running smoothly]

As you can see, the game is running smoothly and without any lag or glitches. This is a testament to the Red Magic 7's powerful hardware and the emulator's optimization.

Similarly, here's 3DS running Citra with Tekken at 4x resolution:

[Video clip of 3DS gameplay running smoothly]

And here's GameCube/Wii running Dolphin with F-Zero GX at 1080p resolution:

[Video clip of GameCube/Wii gameplay running smoothly]

These results show that the Red Magic 7 is capable of delivering high-quality emulation performance, even on demanding titles.

**Active Cooling and Thermal Throttling**

One of the standout features of the Red Magic 7 is its active cooling system. This system includes a nine-layer heat sink and a fan that spins up to 20,000 RPM when needed. I was able to test out this system in various games and emulators, including the ones mentioned earlier.

The result was impressive: even with demanding titles like F-Zero GX, which requires intense processing power, the Red Magic 7's cooling system kept the temperature under control without any significant lag or throttling. This is a testament to the phone's ability to handle demanding tasks for extended periods of time.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Red Magic 7 is one of the most powerful Android phones available on the market today. Its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip delivers impressive performance and emulation capabilities that are unmatched by any other device in its class. The active cooling system ensures that the phone can handle demanding tasks without significant lag or thermal throttling.

While there may be other powerful Android phones available, including the Moto X30, the Red Magic 7 stands out as one of the most promising devices on the market. With a full emulation video coming soon, I'm excited to show off just how well this phone can handle demanding titles and games.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a really powerful new android device from nubia known as the red magic 7. i've had this in my possession for the last two weeks i've been testing it out and yeah i mean this is the most powerful android phone that i've ever messed around with and next year we'll have something with even more power that's how technology works but as it sits right now this thing is an absolute powerhouse i mean with the chip we have here the amount of ram the screen and the cooling system i've been able to throw absolutely anything at it and it handles it without breaking a sweat i believe they also include a silicone case here something that you probably want to throw on it but later on down the road you can always get a better case for it this will protect the back from being scratched up and newbie is actually offering three different color variants of the red magic seven now with each color variant you're going to get a couple different specs here but we have the supernova with 18 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage i do love the supernova look because we have that transparent back but when it comes to these three color variants i opted for the pulsar and i think this is the best looking one we've got 16 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage which is more than enough for a device like this and they're also offering the obsidian model with 12 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage but we have that same cpu and cooling system plus that 165 hertz amoled display on all three of these devices and if you do end up picking one of these phones up you're gonna get a 65 watt power supply your usb type-c cable they've also thrown in that silicone case which we've taken a look at and the red magic 7 itself now like i mentioned this thing is an absolute powerhouse and we're going to run some benchmarks test out some native android gaming and emulation on this thing but before we jump into that i want to give you a quick walk around and we're also going to go over the specs but over here on the right hand side we have our two shoulder triggers which we find on most of these red magic devices these come in really handy you can program them and they're basically physical touch buttons and you might notice we have a vent over here because this is actively cool it's got a 20 000 rpm fan along with the nine layer cooling system built into this device on the bottom here we have our speaker grate our usb type c port and our sim card tray unfortunately these red magic devices do not support a micro sd card so if you need more storage you're going to have to buy one with more storage over here on the left hand side we have our volume rocker we've got some more ventilation for that built-in fan and we also have a red magic switch this will bring us into the red magic space and this gives us a lot of different options for our games and applications we can tweak and tune the performance of the built-in chip and if you're into tinkering this is a really awesome little setup they have on the red magic devices and finally up top here they have left us with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so if you're looking for a powerful device that still comes with a headphone jack then the red magic 7 might be for you now it's time for my favorite part the specs of this device because when it comes down to it they have loaded this thing down for the cpu we have the all new snapdragon 8 gen 1. a lot of people were complaining about this overheating and smaller devices and i could definitely see that happening but in the red magic 7 with that active cooling we can go all day long with maximum performance out of this new chip and it is an absolute beast since we have the new gen 1 it's using the arduino 730 gpu 16 gigabytes of lp ddr5 ram 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage a 6.8 inch amoled 165 hertz display 700 nits of brightness and 100 dci p3 4 500 milliamp hour battery with 65 watt quick charging capabilities wi-fi 6 bluetooth 5.2 and this device does support display over usb type-c so you can connect an hdmi adapter or if your monitor or tv supports usb type-c display you can plug it right in and get that bigger screen experience the first thing i wanted to take a look at was red magic time also known as red magic game space i'm not sure of the official name click this little switch here it's going to bring us over into the menu i'm going to plug this into my game capture so we can get a better look at it and from here we have a couple different views so right now i'm just kind of in the wall view i've got all of my applications loaded up that i want to load through red magic time if we tap this little icon in the bottom right hand corner it'll bring up a little bit of a different view but overall kind of really like this wall view just gives me more apps to choose from at one time now from within here we can actually turn the fan on we can turn it off i like having it on especially when i'm doing games like inch and impact or emulation does keep that gen 1 nice and chilly up at the very top if we tap on this little person gives us some more settings from within here and just gives us the red magic time time plate per game through red magic time but all the good stuff is inside of a game once you start it up so i'm just gonna go with something simple we'll do minecraft real quick if i swipe over from the left hand side you can see that we have a ton of different settings we can mess around with and one of the main settings that i like using is right over here we're in rise mode and what this is going to do is give us the maximum performance out of the cpu and the gpu side of things with this snapdragon 8 gen 1. we can also go to balance mode and this is great for lower end games give you a bit more battery life or eco which i guess if you're just doing video playback or something like that or even just playing kind of a you know a tap game i would go with eco we're not going to need that much power for those type of games but something like genchin impact or even the ps2 emulator definitely set it up for ryze now it's going to give us a warning we're in high gear mode right now so this is going to get a bit hotter because the cpu and gpu clocks will be bumped up from here we can also set the refresh rate of the screen i'm going to go to 165 we've also got our screen recorder we can set up do not disturb change the brightness and things like that but over on the left hand side we do have some plugins that actually work really well with a lot of these games site assist is one of those that's going to give us a little dot in the middle of the screen great for shooters some people call this cheating on android devices i actually really like the fact that they do have this built-in for me when it comes to like call of duty mobile i do use this quite a lot so shut that down back to plugins we've got our sound effects gives us a nice little equalizer here you can adjust this to your liking you have to turn it on and off from here from plugins there's also a macro application which allows us to kind of pre-program taps and you know swipes on the screen but this can definitely come in handy depending on the game you're using for something like minecraft the only thing i turn on is that high gear mode and i also have my performance on screen now if we tap this little performance you'll see it right up here and we can just go with the fps if you want to do that or if you want let's say your battery percentage or all of them at once usually i just leave that fps on and this is a real-time fps counter so i've been getting the gameplay here it comes to minecraft this is one of those games that only runs at up to 120 hertz but i do have that fps counter on screen we're in high gear mode otherwise known as rise mode got that fan going and as you can see this runs minecraft just fine at 120 fps by the way i do have fancy graphics on and chunks are set to 20 right now one game that definitely runs at 165 hertz from google play is real racing 3. it's been on the market for a while not a super hard game to run but it does take quite a bit to run it at 165 fps and this will do it all day long especially since we have that built-in cooling fan we don't have to worry about thermal throttling on this device and another one i wanted to show off here was gentian impact i'm not using the built-in screen recorder so we're not taking away any kind of cpu or gpu performance this is plugged in through hdmi or usb type-c to hdmi and with this i'm at very high settings with msaa turned off that's one of those that i usually always like to turn off that and bloom but with this little chip here i left bloom on we're getting 60 fps every once in a while when there's lots of particles on screen or that shader hasn't cached yet you will see it dip down but overall i'm getting amazing performance with ginge and impact on this device and the same goes for every other native android game that i've thrown at this device call of duty mobile 90 fps i guess that's the cap i'm not sure if you can get 120 but this will do very high settings 90 fps with call of duty mobile also so the next thing i wanted to take a look at were a couple benchmarks on the red magic 7 versus the galaxy s21 when it comes to geekbench 5 as you can see the snapdragon 888 really isn't that far off from the gen 1. i mean we do have a little uptick on the single core and the multi-core with the gen one but where the real performance jump comes in is the gpu on that snapdragon 8 gen 1. here's 3dmark wildlife this tests the vulcan performance of the gpu we're at 10 000 on the red magic 7 and 5400 on the s21 and the final benchmark i ran was antutu on the red magic 7 we're over a million points with antutu and if you take a look at that gpu score we're at 448 000 there and with the s21 with that snapdragon 88 total score 632 893 now it's time to take a look at some emulation of the red magic 7 and this was really impressive you might notice some banding with the screen this is not visible to the naked eye it's just my camera's frame rate trying to keep up with the frame rate of the screen here's dreamcast using the redream emulator and we're totally maxed out here i'm at the highest resolution which is 38.90 by 2880 and it's gonna run these games at 60fps next up we have some 3ds using citra this uses the opengl back in and with tekken i'm at 4x and even with mario kart 7 i can run this at 4x at 60fps and we're getting some really good 3ds emulation performance with this chipset moving over to the dolphin emulator for some gamecube and wii here we have f zero gx one of the harder ones to emulate especially on arm devices and with this setup here i'm using the vulcan back in at 1080p i mean this is really really impressive i did try opengl and really the highest i could go with 720p and even then i still had some stutters but with the vulcan back in and multi-threaded rendering turned on with the dolphin emulator this is some of the best gamecube performance that i've seen out of an arm device so far this is really really great i also wanted to throw at least one wii game at it so here we have tatsunoko versus capcom one of my favorite games vulcan back in 1080p with multi-threaded rendering on and that works with the vulcan back in i do notice a few shader stutters every once in a while but with the way i have it set up right now i'm using specialized shaders and i'm not skipping them so you will see that until it's cached in the memory and the final emulator i wanted to test for this video was ether sx2 for ps2 here we have gotta pour 2 opengl back in 2x resolution i was really hoping we could go up the 3x here but i did get some dips every once in a while with opengl and vulcan at 3x at least with this game and in the future there's a chance with more optimizations done to this emulator we'll be able to run this at 3x and maybe higher with vulcan or opengl but right now 2x is the way to go with this device and it works great but when i moved over to gran turismo 4 i was able to take this up to 4x and in the rally stages i could go up to 5x with it which does look really really well and if you take a look i do have all of my stats on screen right now so you know we're really at 4x with this game using that opengl back in really really impressive performance out of the snapdragon 8 gen 1. so overall when it comes to the red magic 7 this is the most powerful android phone that i've tested so far and we will see more powerful ones come down the road that's just how it works i mentioned it at the beginning of the video recently i did a video on the moto x30 which has the same chip but no active cooling and it can definitely thermal throttle after a while and it takes those clocks on the cpu and the gpu down to keep it cooler with this having active cooling built in you can play these all day long i mean this little fan does spin up at 20 000 rpm it's got that nine layer cooling setup in it and it does an absolutely amazing job cooling this gen one off so that's gonna wrap it up for this video i will have a full emulation video coming up because there's a ton of stuff that i want to test on this device i really want to show it off over hdmi it does 1080p 60 out of usb type c which is plenty for emulation and this little chip can definitely handle it as you saw with what we tested in this video but i do have more coming and if there's anything else you want to see running on the red magic 7 let me know in the comments below if you want to learn more maybe pick one of these up i'll leave a link in the description but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a really powerful new android device from nubia known as the red magic 7. i've had this in my possession for the last two weeks i've been testing it out and yeah i mean this is the most powerful android phone that i've ever messed around with and next year we'll have something with even more power that's how technology works but as it sits right now this thing is an absolute powerhouse i mean with the chip we have here the amount of ram the screen and the cooling system i've been able to throw absolutely anything at it and it handles it without breaking a sweat i believe they also include a silicone case here something that you probably want to throw on it but later on down the road you can always get a better case for it this will protect the back from being scratched up and newbie is actually offering three different color variants of the red magic seven now with each color variant you're going to get a couple different specs here but we have the supernova with 18 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage i do love the supernova look because we have that transparent back but when it comes to these three color variants i opted for the pulsar and i think this is the best looking one we've got 16 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage which is more than enough for a device like this and they're also offering the obsidian model with 12 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage but we have that same cpu and cooling system plus that 165 hertz amoled display on all three of these devices and if you do end up picking one of these phones up you're gonna get a 65 watt power supply your usb type-c cable they've also thrown in that silicone case which we've taken a look at and the red magic 7 itself now like i mentioned this thing is an absolute powerhouse and we're going to run some benchmarks test out some native android gaming and emulation on this thing but before we jump into that i want to give you a quick walk around and we're also going to go over the specs but over here on the right hand side we have our two shoulder triggers which we find on most of these red magic devices these come in really handy you can program them and they're basically physical touch buttons and you might notice we have a vent over here because this is actively cool it's got a 20 000 rpm fan along with the nine layer cooling system built into this device on the bottom here we have our speaker grate our usb type c port and our sim card tray unfortunately these red magic devices do not support a micro sd card so if you need more storage you're going to have to buy one with more storage over here on the left hand side we have our volume rocker we've got some more ventilation for that built-in fan and we also have a red magic switch this will bring us into the red magic space and this gives us a lot of different options for our games and applications we can tweak and tune the performance of the built-in chip and if you're into tinkering this is a really awesome little setup they have on the red magic devices and finally up top here they have left us with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so if you're looking for a powerful device that still comes with a headphone jack then the red magic 7 might be for you now it's time for my favorite part the specs of this device because when it comes down to it they have loaded this thing down for the cpu we have the all new snapdragon 8 gen 1. a lot of people were complaining about this overheating and smaller devices and i could definitely see that happening but in the red magic 7 with that active cooling we can go all day long with maximum performance out of this new chip and it is an absolute beast since we have the new gen 1 it's using the arduino 730 gpu 16 gigabytes of lp ddr5 ram 256 gigabytes of ufs 3.1 storage a 6.8 inch amoled 165 hertz display 700 nits of brightness and 100 dci p3 4 500 milliamp hour battery with 65 watt quick charging capabilities wi-fi 6 bluetooth 5.2 and this device does support display over usb type-c so you can connect an hdmi adapter or if your monitor or tv supports usb type-c display you can plug it right in and get that bigger screen experience the first thing i wanted to take a look at was red magic time also known as red magic game space i'm not sure of the official name click this little switch here it's going to bring us over into the menu i'm going to plug this into my game capture so we can get a better look at it and from here we have a couple different views so right now i'm just kind of in the wall view i've got all of my applications loaded up that i want to load through red magic time if we tap this little icon in the bottom right hand corner it'll bring up a little bit of a different view but overall kind of really like this wall view just gives me more apps to choose from at one time now from within here we can actually turn the fan on we can turn it off i like having it on especially when i'm doing games like inch and impact or emulation does keep that gen 1 nice and chilly up at the very top if we tap on this little person gives us some more settings from within here and just gives us the red magic time time plate per game through red magic time but all the good stuff is inside of a game once you start it up so i'm just gonna go with something simple we'll do minecraft real quick if i swipe over from the left hand side you can see that we have a ton of different settings we can mess around with and one of the main settings that i like using is right over here we're in rise mode and what this is going to do is give us the maximum performance out of the cpu and the gpu side of things with this snapdragon 8 gen 1. we can also go to balance mode and this is great for lower end games give you a bit more battery life or eco which i guess if you're just doing video playback or something like that or even just playing kind of a you know a tap game i would go with eco we're not going to need that much power for those type of games but something like genchin impact or even the ps2 emulator definitely set it up for ryze now it's going to give us a warning we're in high gear mode right now so this is going to get a bit hotter because the cpu and gpu clocks will be bumped up from here we can also set the refresh rate of the screen i'm going to go to 165 we've also got our screen recorder we can set up do not disturb change the brightness and things like that but over on the left hand side we do have some plugins that actually work really well with a lot of these games site assist is one of those that's going to give us a little dot in the middle of the screen great for shooters some people call this cheating on android devices i actually really like the fact that they do have this built-in for me when it comes to like call of duty mobile i do use this quite a lot so shut that down back to plugins we've got our sound effects gives us a nice little equalizer here you can adjust this to your liking you have to turn it on and off from here from plugins there's also a macro application which allows us to kind of pre-program taps and you know swipes on the screen but this can definitely come in handy depending on the game you're using for something like minecraft the only thing i turn on is that high gear mode and i also have my performance on screen now if we tap this little performance you'll see it right up here and we can just go with the fps if you want to do that or if you want let's say your battery percentage or all of them at once usually i just leave that fps on and this is a real-time fps counter so i've been getting the gameplay here it comes to minecraft this is one of those games that only runs at up to 120 hertz but i do have that fps counter on screen we're in high gear mode otherwise known as rise mode got that fan going and as you can see this runs minecraft just fine at 120 fps by the way i do have fancy graphics on and chunks are set to 20 right now one game that definitely runs at 165 hertz from google play is real racing 3. it's been on the market for a while not a super hard game to run but it does take quite a bit to run it at 165 fps and this will do it all day long especially since we have that built-in cooling fan we don't have to worry about thermal throttling on this device and another one i wanted to show off here was gentian impact i'm not using the built-in screen recorder so we're not taking away any kind of cpu or gpu performance this is plugged in through hdmi or usb type-c to hdmi and with this i'm at very high settings with msaa turned off that's one of those that i usually always like to turn off that and bloom but with this little chip here i left bloom on we're getting 60 fps every once in a while when there's lots of particles on screen or that shader hasn't cached yet you will see it dip down but overall i'm getting amazing performance with ginge and impact on this device and the same goes for every other native android game that i've thrown at this device call of duty mobile 90 fps i guess that's the cap i'm not sure if you can get 120 but this will do very high settings 90 fps with call of duty mobile also so the next thing i wanted to take a look at were a couple benchmarks on the red magic 7 versus the galaxy s21 when it comes to geekbench 5 as you can see the snapdragon 888 really isn't that far off from the gen 1. i mean we do have a little uptick on the single core and the multi-core with the gen one but where the real performance jump comes in is the gpu on that snapdragon 8 gen 1. here's 3dmark wildlife this tests the vulcan performance of the gpu we're at 10 000 on the red magic 7 and 5400 on the s21 and the final benchmark i ran was antutu on the red magic 7 we're over a million points with antutu and if you take a look at that gpu score we're at 448 000 there and with the s21 with that snapdragon 88 total score 632 893 now it's time to take a look at some emulation of the red magic 7 and this was really impressive you might notice some banding with the screen this is not visible to the naked eye it's just my camera's frame rate trying to keep up with the frame rate of the screen here's dreamcast using the redream emulator and we're totally maxed out here i'm at the highest resolution which is 38.90 by 2880 and it's gonna run these games at 60fps next up we have some 3ds using citra this uses the opengl back in and with tekken i'm at 4x and even with mario kart 7 i can run this at 4x at 60fps and we're getting some really good 3ds emulation performance with this chipset moving over to the dolphin emulator for some gamecube and wii here we have f zero gx one of the harder ones to emulate especially on arm devices and with this setup here i'm using the vulcan back in at 1080p i mean this is really really impressive i did try opengl and really the highest i could go with 720p and even then i still had some stutters but with the vulcan back in and multi-threaded rendering turned on with the dolphin emulator this is some of the best gamecube performance that i've seen out of an arm device so far this is really really great i also wanted to throw at least one wii game at it so here we have tatsunoko versus capcom one of my favorite games vulcan back in 1080p with multi-threaded rendering on and that works with the vulcan back in i do notice a few shader stutters every once in a while but with the way i have it set up right now i'm using specialized shaders and i'm not skipping them so you will see that until it's cached in the memory and the final emulator i wanted to test for this video was ether sx2 for ps2 here we have gotta pour 2 opengl back in 2x resolution i was really hoping we could go up the 3x here but i did get some dips every once in a while with opengl and vulcan at 3x at least with this game and in the future there's a chance with more optimizations done to this emulator we'll be able to run this at 3x and maybe higher with vulcan or opengl but right now 2x is the way to go with this device and it works great but when i moved over to gran turismo 4 i was able to take this up to 4x and in the rally stages i could go up to 5x with it which does look really really well and if you take a look i do have all of my stats on screen right now so you know we're really at 4x with this game using that opengl back in really really impressive performance out of the snapdragon 8 gen 1. so overall when it comes to the red magic 7 this is the most powerful android phone that i've tested so far and we will see more powerful ones come down the road that's just how it works i mentioned it at the beginning of the video recently i did a video on the moto x30 which has the same chip but no active cooling and it can definitely thermal throttle after a while and it takes those clocks on the cpu and the gpu down to keep it cooler with this having active cooling built in you can play these all day long i mean this little fan does spin up at 20 000 rpm it's got that nine layer cooling setup in it and it does an absolutely amazing job cooling this gen one off so that's gonna wrap it up for this video i will have a full emulation video coming up because there's a ton of stuff that i want to test on this device i really want to show it off over hdmi it does 1080p 60 out of usb type c which is plenty for emulation and this little chip can definitely handle it as you saw with what we tested in this video but i do have more coming and if there's anything else you want to see running on the red magic 7 let me know in the comments below if you want to learn more maybe pick one of these up i'll leave a link in the description but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"