{"id":152486,"date":"2025-11-25T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/152486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:29:08","slug":"redmagic-11-pro-review-ign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/152486\/","title":{"rendered":"RedMagic 11 Pro Review – IGN"},"content":{"rendered":"

RedMagic is back with yet another smartphone<\/a> touting extreme performance at a price that undercuts virtually anything you\u2019d pit against it. With a starting price of $749 (alas, up from last year\u2019s $649), the RedMagic 11 Pro brings Snapdragon\u2019s latest flagship chip, stylish hardware, a stunning display, and gaming features that actually make a difference. It\u2019s also gone a step beyond active air cooling this year, further solidifying its place among the best gaming phones<\/a> out there. While there\u2019s always some sacrifices to do that much while keeping the price down, you\u2019ll just have to decide for yourself if those sacrifices add up to much. <\/p>\n

RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Photos\"\"RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Design and Features<\/p>\n

The RedMagic 11 Pro still has the dazzle that\u2019s made the past couple generations of this series so stunning. This includes slim bezels all the way around the display, an invisible selfie camera for a true fullscreen, a flat back with no camera bumps, and a transparent rear to show off RedMagic\u2019s top-tier cooling solution. <\/p>\n

On the RedMagic 11 Pro, that cooling includes the active air cooler that has been a mainstay of the series. This pulls air through a duct inside the phone to cool the CPU with vents on either of its long sides and an RGB turbine fan visible through the back. This time around, RedMagic has also built in a liquid cooling loop. While normally you wouldn\u2019t be able to see the uniform fluid in motion, RedMagic has inserted two types of fluid to highlight the motion like a lava lamp. That\u2019s all paired with a host of other heat-transfer materials and a large vapor chamber to spread and dissipate heat from the Snapdragon chip powering the phone. <\/p>\n

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In spite of these additions, the RedMagic 11 Pro hasn\u2019t changed too much in terms of size or weight. It\u2019s still a sizable phone at 6.45 x 3.01 x 0.35 inches (increasing no more than 0.02 inches in any dimension) and weighty at 8.11 ounces, but that\u2019s not unusual for a smartphone with a screen as large as its 6.85 inches. <\/p>\n

The display is mostly unchanged this year, with the same 1216×2688 resolution running at 144Hz. It\u2019s not rated to run quite as bright, but with a peak of 1,800 nits, it\u2019s still a stunning AMOLED display, offering vivid color and bold contrast for games and movies alike. The fact that the selfie camera doesn\u2019t interrupt the display helps make it that much more engrossing. Like the selfie camera, a fingerprint scanner is also hidden under the display, and it works quickly and consistently. <\/p>\n

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The speakers pack a decent punch too with a satisfying sound. They can duck a little at max volume, but they\u2019re otherwise solid. They\u2019re not the only thing that makes sound, though. When the cooling fan kicks on, it also kicks up a shrill racket \u2013 a side effect of that of that 24,000 RPM \u2013 though it can manually be deactivated when not needed, even while gaming. <\/p>\n

RedMagic has made a sturdy phone, too. It feels like a brick. The display and rear both get glass from Corning, though RedMagic doesn\u2019t specify the type. The front includes a pre-applied screen protector that hasn\u2019t scratched at all in my time testing. Impressively, the phone also comes with an IPX8 rating. That\u2019s managed by having the air duct be an \u201cindependent cooling structure,\u201d preventing water from getting into the rest of the system and damaging it. <\/p>\n

The rest of the phone is familiar in good ways. It carries the torch for 3.5mm headphone jacks with a port at the top of the phone. It includes touch shoulder buttons that are handy for gaming and toggle to activate its special gaming launching. At the bottom edge you\u2019ll find a dual SIM slot handy for travel (no eSIM though), and a USB-C port good for 10Gbps transfers and 80W wired charging. In spite of all its cooling hardware, the RedMagic 11 Pro still found room for a wireless charging pad that also offers 80W charging speeds. <\/p>\n

RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Software<\/p>\n

The RedMagic 11 Pro comes with Android 16 out of the box, and RedMagic is promising two years of OS updates (i.e., up to Android 18) and three years of security patches. Despite its gaming nature, the operating system doesn\u2019t insist on a gaming theme, even offering the option of a more subtle background and icon theme for the device. It does still come with a bit of bloatware, including a bunch of games and tools pre-installed and the ever dubious Mora character, which now features an integrated chatbot that doesn\u2019t work terribly well. <\/p>\n

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The Game Space continues to be a useful hub for changing game and performance settings. Not every setting is intuitive, but the app will provide some information the first time you run it that\u2019ll be worth paying attention to. This year, it includes a new feature called AI trigger that automatically performs actions, which sounds almost like cheating. Getting it to work is another question entirely, as it relies on screenshots and AI recognition to decide when to perform an action, and the former makes no mention of which games it supports. Another new feature lets you swap your voice in-game for Mora\u2019s voice, which is a surprising one to add because even the Mora app isn\u2019t consistent about what her voice sounds like and the chatbot doesn\u2019t use her voice at all. <\/p>\n

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Some useful tools still hang around, like the one for remapping the shoulder buttons and the motion controls, which let you make gestures with the phone to perform actions. I found this handy in games like Call of Duty, where I could reload by flipping the phone up briefly and swap weapons with a sideways twist.<\/p>\n

RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Gaming and Performance<\/p>\n

The RedMagic 11 Pro has style enough, but performance is where it is king. Few phones offer the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip so far. The OnePlus 15<\/a> is one, and that chip made it one of the fastest phones we\u2019ve tested in a bunch of areas. The only reason it wasn\u2019t the fastest was because it was tested alongside the RedMagic 11 Pro, which took things to another level still. <\/p>\n

In Geekbench 6, the RedMagic 11 Pro offered the fastest multi-core performance we\u2019ve seen by far, hitting a 11,248.5-point average, far outstripping the 9,339 points of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and even the 10,100 of the OnePlus 15. In 3DMark\u2019s graphics benchmarks, it also put all challengers behind it. In Wild Life Extreme, Steel Nomad Light, and Solar Bay, it led the pack. In those 3DMark tests, it averaged a 7.82% lead over the OnePlus 15, and from there, the gap only widened. It led the iPhone 17 Pro Max in Wild Life Extreme by a staggering 59.6%. Even against Snapdragon 8 Elite chips in a phone like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, the RedMagic 11 Pro pulled ahead by an average of 36.8%. <\/p>\n

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That translates to excellent gaming performance. The RedMagic 11 Pro was happy to max out the settings in every game I threw at it. More often, the limiting factor was what the game\u2019s settings would allow \u2013 Wuthering Waves, Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, Call of Duty Mobile, War Thunder Mobile, Destiny: Rising, you name it. <\/p>\n

The phone can get a little bit warm while gaming, but its cooling system proves capable. For most gaming, it didn\u2019t even seem to need to max out its fans. And even when throwing it a gauntlet like the Steel Nomad Light Stress Test, it performed with 84.50% consistency. A stress test like that really heats things up, but even then the phone itself remained only warm to the touch. It even completed the Wild Life Extreme Stress Test that many reviewers have found the OnePlus 15 crashing out on (though the RedMagic 11 Pro gets quite hot in this test). <\/p>\n

That level of extreme performance and the ability to sustain it even with mounting heat readily lets the RedMagic 11 Pro take the gaming crown. And naturally, that translates to smooth everyday operation, with the phone never feeling the least bit challenged with typical operation. <\/p>\n

RedMagic includes the battery to match all that horsepower, slotting in a 7,500mAh pack that\u2019s more than happy to go a couple of days without a recharge or sustain lengthy gameplay sessions. <\/p>\n

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The RedMagic 11 Pro seems to offer dependable networking as well. Testing with a T-Mobile SIM installed, I generally had a good signal and could see download speeds over 100Mbps. <\/p>\n

RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Cameras<\/p>\n

The cameras on the RedMagic 10 Pro<\/a> weren\u2019t all that impressive, and not much has changed this generation. Here are the sensors included on the phone: <\/p>\n

50MP Wide, f\/1.88, 1\/1.55\u201d, OIS, OV50E4050MP ultrawide, f\/2.0, 1\/2.88\u201d, OV50D402MP auxiliary sensor16MP Selfie, f\/2.0<\/p>\n

As with earlier models, the RedMagic 11 Pro continues to slap a sizable banner watermark at the bottom of photos taken on it by default with no notice. <\/p>\n

RedMagic 11 Pro \u2013 Camera Samples\"\"<\/p>\n

The main sensor on the RedMagic 11 Pro is solid. It captures some great close-up detail with lovely, natural color. Got pets? They\u2019ll look great in front of this lens. It can snag some vibrant nature shots, too, though distant detail gets fuzzy. Digital zoom is also a wash, just showing off the lack of sharpness of those distant subjects. <\/p>\n

The ultra-wide also falls short of the main sensor. Colors from it lack the vibrance of the main sensor, and it doesn\u2019t compensate enough for its tighter aperture, producing noticeably darker images. That leads to unfortunate inconsistency between the two sensors. <\/p>\n

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That 2MP sensor isn\u2019t specified as a macro sensor, but the phone produces 2MP photos when shooting in macro mode, so it\u2019s a safe bet that\u2019s the sensor it deploys. Either way, it\u2019s a sad sensor that would have been just as well omitted. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to say whether the selfie camera is just inherently not great or the under-display setup hampers it, but the point is that it doesn\u2019t look good. It exhibits some unsightly oversharpening that creates color fingering (notice all the blue and yellow on my monochrome jacket?), and it still produces soft images. <\/p>\n

Purchasing Guide<\/p>\n

The RedMagic 11 Pro is available from RedMagic\u2019s online store<\/a> with a starting configuration of 12GB of memory and 256GB of storage for $749. This base configuration comes in a Cryo black color way that lacks the transparent back. A transparent black Nightfreeze or transparent silver Subzero (tested here) color scheme are available in 16GB+512GB configurations for $849 or 24GB+1TB configurations for $999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RedMagic is back with yet another smartphone touting extreme performance at a price that undercuts virtually anything you\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-152486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}