ROG Phone snaps the Snapdragon 845 spine

Asus recently unveiled the most powerful gaming phone — ROG Phone. This phone stacks up to an exciting comparison with other phones already built around the powerful SD845.

The ROG too runs off Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset with a clock speed of 2.96GHz. As per a report by GSMArena, this gives it a 200MHz benefit over other recent flagships and gaming phones.

The ROG beats the likes of Xiaomi Mi MIX 2s, OnePlus 6, HTC U12+, Sony Xperia XZ2 and the Samsung Galaxy S9+ in both the single and multi- core Geekbench 4.1 benchmark test.

Although the ROG beats the other handsets, the difference isn’t much. The report states that it is not clear if the scores benefits from the X Mode, which disables the four slow cores in the SD845 and increases the minimum clock speed of the four big cores. The big cores provide most of the power in multi- core tests. With one core scoring around 2,500 points, four of them together should hit 10,000; but don’t, because they run hot — a single core runs cooler, and four cores need to clock down. Hence, disabling the four small cores leaves some headroom for the big ones to show their best.

The ASUS ROG Phone features a GameCool 3D vapour- chamber cooling system, ultrasonic AirTrigger touch sensors, an exclusive gamer- centric design with sidemounted ports optimised for landscape- mode, a vivid AMOLED display with HDR visuals, a 90Hz refresh rate and a 1ms response time for a true gaming experience.

It is meant to be a gaming smartphone, and the company has also partnered with Garena, developer of the world’s bestranking games, Free Fire. This was implemented to explore the possibilities that ROG Phone brings to the gaming scene.