by It’s no secret that modern Android phones often have unnecessary specifications – I look at you, 108 MP cameras and 4K monitors – and the new Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro brings something 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 would think it would know exactly what players need. Well, what they apparently need is more RAM than your average gaming PC.
That’s right, the newly unveiled Red Magic 7 Pro comes in a few configurations, and they top with a full 18 GB of RAM. Or, if you want to stick to a measly 16 GB of RAM, you can go up to 1 TB of storage. It is much.
When I took the phone out of the box, and saw the high specifications on the side of the box, I was quite startled. But it was only when I played on my gaming PC later that I really looked at these specifications.
It tops the gaming PC min
My gaming PC, built in 2021 to handle advanced gaming, as well as what DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects could throw at it, has “only” 16 GB of RAM.
This was an amount that, when I bought the parts, was sold to me as enough for these intensive processes. And after using the PC for several months, it seems to be enough for games or video production. So 16 GB is perfectly fine for tasks you would not even do on a smartphone.
The PC has “only” a 1TB SSD as well, the same amount of storage space that the Nubia phone goes up to. This was certainly not the best decision on my part, and I have just ordered a 6TB HDD, but it shows that Red Magic 7 Pro matches my gaming PC for storage as well.
Obviously when you move on to the other specs, the gaming PC has my Nubia beat – but even when it comes to RAM, I just do not understand why the phone needs so much.
I should point out that neither the 18GB nor 1TB models of the Red Magic 7 Pro go on sale in the US. But the two versions that are both have 16 GB of RAM – the same as my PC – so my point remains.
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When it comes to mobile gaming, it is a simple fact that undermines much of the marketing around gaming phones.
Mobile phones are not like consoles; there are 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 owners can play games together, Most titles are optimized to play on all devices.
You do not need a super powerful mobile to play PUBG, or Call of Duty, or Fortnite or Genshin Impact. Any pretty modern device can do that, but maybe not on the top graphical options.
There is a curious but valued difference mobile phones have with PCs – many PC developers like to shrug their shoulders and say “well, some players can not play our game”, excluding users who do not have top-end specifications.
Maybe because they are designed as portable and easily accessible, or maybe because mobile developers are trying hard to compete for your attention, any old phone can play all the most popular games.
With that in mind, 18GB of RAM is just completely unnecessary. I would go so far as to say that you really do not need more than 8 GB and some will not even need it.
So why are phone companies, especially Nubia, pushing in extra RAM like this? Well, it’s hard to know for sure, but there’s one reason I can think of: I would not have written this article if the phone had a normal amount of memory.
