It’s no secret that modern Android phones often pack unnecessary specs – I’m looking at you, 108MP cameras and 4K screens – and the new Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro brings something else.
It’s a brand new gaming phone from a company that’s pretty much been built at this point (hence the ‘7’ in the name), so you’d think it would know what gamers need. Well, they clearly need more RAM than your average gaming PC.
That’s right, the recently unveiled Red Magic 7 Pro comes in a few configurations, and they top off with 18GB of RAM. Or, if you want to stick to just 16GB of RAM, you can go up to 1TB of storage space. this is too much.
When I took the phone out of the box, and saw the high specs on the side of the box, I was quite shocked. But it’s only when I was playing the latter on my gaming PC that I really tweaked those specs.
This is the top of my gaming pc
My gaming PC, built in 2021 to be able to handle high-end gaming, as well as whatever DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects could throw at it, has ‘only’ 16GB of RAM.
It was an amount, when I was buying parts, I was sold enough for these intensive processes. And, after using the PC for months, it seems like enough to make games or videos. So 16GB is fine for tasks you wouldn’t even do on a smartphone.
The PC ‘only’ also has a 1TB SSD, the same amount of storage space as the Nubia phone goes for. Admittedly, it wasn’t the best decision on my part, and I just ordered a 6TB HDD, but it shows that the Red Magic 7 Pro even matches my gaming PC for storage space.
Obviously when you go to other specs, my gaming PC has the Nubia beat – but when it comes to RAM, I don’t understand why the phone needs that much.
I should point out that neither the 18GB or 1TB models of the Red Magic 7 Pro are going on sale in the US. But both versions have 16GB of RAM – the same as my PC – so my point remains.
state of play
When it comes to mobile gaming, the simple fact that gaming reduces a lot of the marketing fluff around phones.
Mobile phones are not like consoles; There aren’t just two or three versions that all gamers have. There are hundreds of different types of mobile phones, and to ensure that all mobile owners can play the game simultaneously, Most of the titles are optimized to play on all devices.
You don’t need a super-powerful mobile to play PUBG, or Call of Duty, or Fortnite, or Genshin Impact. Any fairly modern tool can do this, although probably not among the top graphical options.
It’s a curious, but admirable, difference that happens with PCs in mobile – a lot of PC developers just shrug their shoulders and say ‘well, some gamers can’t play our games’, locking down those users. Those who don’t have top-end glasses.
Maybe because they’re designed to be portable and easily accessible, or maybe because mobile developers are working hard to get your attention, any old phone can play all the most popular games.
With that in mind, 18GB of RAM is completely unnecessary. I’d go so far as to say that you really don’t need more than 8GB, and some won’t even need it.
So why do phone companies, especially Nubia, put so much effort into extra RAM like this? Well, it’s hard to know for sure, but there’s one reason I can think of: I wouldn’t be writing this article if the phone had a normal amount of memory.
