The ASUS ROG Telephone household has at all times been synonymous with squeezing probably the most efficiency out the Android smartphone platform and extra particularly Qualcomm’s Snapdragon cell processing platforms. In case you’ve been maintaining tabs on the ROG cellphone line-up, you are in all probability conscious that ASUS lately unveiled its fifth gen ROG Telephone 5, and it is based mostly on Qualcomm’s highly effective new Snapdragon 888 cell SoC. With huge features claimed in each commonplace compute and graphics workloads, versus Qualcomm’s earlier gen Snapdragon 865, the ASUS ROG Telephone 5 supplies for an attention-grabbing automobile to have a look at what ought to show to be absolute top-end efficiency for flagship Android telephones within the weeks and months forward.
We have solely had the brand new ROG Telephone 5 in-house for a number of hours, and we’re nonetheless grinding out our full assessment. Nonetheless, we have already run the brand new mighty ROG Telephone 5 by way of its paces across the benchmark check monitor right here at HotHardware, and we needed to share a few of our extra attention-grabbing findings.
Along with being a full-featured, giant format cellphone with a punchy 6.78″ HDR10+ licensed AMOLED show, that show can be able to pushing a silky {smooth} 144Hz refresh charge for what ought to end in buttery-smooth, uncapped efficiency in gaming workloads. As well as, our ROG Telephone 5 is strapped with a full 16GB of LPDDR5 reminiscence and 256GB of quick UFS 3.1 Flash storage. We now have a ROG Telephone 5 Final inbound as properly, and it sports activities one other 2GB of LPDDR5 for whole of 18GB, although we’re unsure how a lot that may add to the efficiency equation.
Replace, 3/17/21 10:55 AM – This is our video assessment to your viewing pleasure, to whet your urge for food for our full print assessment coming quickly!
Benchmarking The ASUS ROG Telephone 5 – An Amped-Up Snapdragon 888 Gaming Flagship
You would possibly say that this new Android gaming handset is dialed for the efficiency freaks. So let’s take a fast take a look at the early numbers, we could? Within the following benchmarks, we set the cellphone’s show to 144Hz and examined each within the ROG Telephone 5’s commonplace efficiency mode and better efficiency X-Mode settings.
From a common objective workload standpoint, the ASUS ROG Telephone 5 delivers a couple of 3 – 7% extra carry in efficiency, versus Samsung’s Snapdragon 888-equipped Galaxy S21, and over 20% higher efficiency versus earlier gen Snapdragon 865-class flagships. Though we did discover some attention-grabbing ends in PCMark for Android…
Right here you may see the ROG Telephone 5 continues its commanding lead when set to its efficiency X-Mode configuration. Nonetheless, when in commonplace mode, the brand new ASUS flagship gaming cellphone drops to the underside of the pack. We have had discussions with Qualcomm with respect to Snapdragon 888 and this benchmark, and have been advised PCMark’s workload is probably going being dealt with by the brand new Snapdragon structure’s effectivity cores, as a result of the workload is not all that strenuous. You may observe the Galaxy S21’s extra middling efficiency right here as properly on this benchmark. It appears as if the ROG Telephone 5’s commonplace mode, at the very least on this benchmark, actually let’s Qualcomm’s power-savings options kick into gear, whereas its X-Mode dials up the most effective scores we have seen but on this check.
Name Of Obligation Cellular On ASUS ROG Telephone 5
ASUS ROG Telephone 5 Gaming And Graphics Efficiency
Let’s take a look at some extra graphics-intensive benchmarks subsequent…
Right here the ROG Telephone 5 exhibits a couple of 3 – 4% lead over the similarly-equipped Galaxy S21 and a 17 – 25% lead over the earlier era Snapdragon 865-powered handsets, relying on whether or not you are contemplating GFXBench or the 3DMark Sling Shot checks.
3DMark Wild Life, nonetheless, offered extra balanced findings with its extra intense 3D graphics workloads…
ROG Telephone 5 X-Mode (Left) – Normal Mode (Proper)
As you may see within the prime stage efficiency benchmark, the ROG Telephone 5 is about on par with the Snapdragon 888-powered Samsung Galaxy S21 on this benchmark. In actual fact, it is properly throughout the margin of variability on this check. Nonetheless, as we found in our full Galaxy S21 assessment, not all smartphone thermal options are created equal, and the Galaxy S21 bleeds off over 40% (backside of that web page) of its efficiency over prolonged workloads within the Wild Life Stress check. In the meantime, trying on the ROG Telephone 5’s stress check outcomes above, in X-Mode the brand new Android gaming flagship is a rock, sustaining 99% of its efficiency throughout the check’s full 20 minute length. Whereas, in commonplace efficiency mode, the ROG Telephone 5 solely bleeds off about 17% of its efficiency.
Keep Tuned For Our Full ASUS ROG Telephone 5 Overview
That wraps-up our quick-take ASUS ROG Telephone 5 efficiency preview for now, however keep tuned to HotHardware within the days forward for our full assessment. Up to now, these benchmark numbers are attention-grabbing, particularly should you think about the nuances in every of ASUS’ efficiency modes, however we’re trying ahead to digging in deeper with this beastly gaming cellphone and actually seeing what it is fabricated from, so stick round.
And pontificate within the feedback under if you would like us to have a look at something particular for our full assessment.
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