 Hey guys, Thunder E here and I've got two awesome gaming phones here for you today, so let's find out which one is actually the best. Alright, this is time for a battle vid guys and today we are checking out two really awesome gaming phones. One was just announced which is the ASUS ROG Phone 7 Pro. It's part of the ROG Phone 7 series and the other is the RED MAGIC 8 Pro in titanium. So this is going to be a duke out of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 powerhouses. Now if you're joining us for the very first time don't forget to hit the subscribe button notification icon to get notified about videos just like this on the channel. I know we've got a lot of new subscribers so we do videos like this so go ahead sit down and enjoy. So let's start off with the hardware. Both of them have very unique hardware. These specs will be on screen for each device but we start off with the ASUS ROG Phone 7 Pro. Design wise it's similar to last year the curves and the edges are a little bit smooth that I kind of like. What you do notice of course is that LED display at the back that allows for different graphic prompts so while you're gaming it shows you gaming graphic prompts at the back if you're charging the device there is a charging prompt if you receive a phone call so on and so on which we're getting to the software later. We've got a camera layout it's the standard three across and then we have this lip here that opens up for the aero cooler. That is the custom cooler that you get with the ASUS ROG Phone 7 Pro or you can buy it separately if you want to and this thing does some really impressive work. Now on the right hand side you do have of course top trigger buttons the way it says ROG, a power button volume rocker and then on the bottom headphone jack a USB type C port and then you've got another USB type C port where the aero cooler actually connects to. Display is solid it looks vibrant and we've got a front-facing camera right there. Now when we go over to the red magic 8 Pro this is a titanium version so it's got that titanium type look to it and you can see almost feels very see-through that glass lay on top is really nice in the build. You've got an inline camera set up here and you've got that snapdragon 8 gen 2 logo depicting where it actually is in the device which is cool then then you've got your built-in fan. This is one of the biggest differentiators with the red magic 8 Pro designed wise it's got a vintage fan it's got vents on the side. Now you can see the lettering all around those also do light up indicating of course where your triggers are and those triggers are on the top on the right hand side right next to your right triggers you do have this red action button that is to activate x-mode into your gaming arena where you can start gaming. Display is vibrant I really do like this display 1300 and it's really bright and as you can see it's got no front-facing camera because it's under the display which is actually pretty cool. Volume rock on the other side and this thing can stand on itself headphone jack you name it so who has the better hardware just in terms of looking feel honestly I have to give it to the red magic 8 pro it just feels fresher and newer in terms of design and also I do like the way it looks. Now speaking of power and performance we talked about the fact that it they do have the snapdragon 8 gen 2 chipset on both devices and who talk about impressive the benchmarks on your single score as well as also multiple multi-scores are great where the ASUS wins out on single score by at least 600 points compared to the red magic while the red magic wins slightly on multi-core scores there with maybe about 100 or so so that's where you have it there but again that should give us some really good performance all around that's not another point what we care about is the gaming experience and we'll start off first of course with the very first game we like to play call of duty mobile so I'll start with the red magic 8 pro performance on this we're getting a solid 90 frames per second playing of course on the best setting for this which was really cool but when we went over to the ASUS ROG phone 7 pro we got 122 frames per second this is the first time I've seen this on an android device without any hacks or anything like that but ASUS definitely won that round then we go up to apex legend I know that game is going off soon but I like to test it out apex legend was able to get a solid 60 frames per second at the highest possible settings which is I think ultra with HD all that fun stuff both devices both the ASUS ROG phone 7 pro and the red magic 8 pro got 60 frames per second solid overall so which means gameplay was smooth fast and effective and we head over to our next game pubg mobile now pubg mobile we start off with ultra HD ultra where we get 40 frames a second on the red magic 8 pro which is to be expected again still not optimized and we also get 40 frames a second on the ASUS ROG phone 7 pro now when we move over to usually smooth extreme we actually go to HDR extreme which is actually higher and both devices starting with the red magic 8 pro do 60 frames per second a solid 60 no issues no problems right there so both devices have game centers or gaming hubs where all your games is collected and you could customize it the red magic 8 pro allows you to list all your games there you can go in you can also turn on the fan and have it running at certain times and will automatically turn on with the games you're playing plus you do have the ability to customize the performance per game you also have the snapdragon adreno gpu settings which is very unique to this device allowing you to maximize your gpu performance on the device itself while the ASUS ROG phone 7 pro also has something similar you have your game library section for all your games you do have your console showing your performance and also the different performance node modes if you got your connected and then you can also customize what you do with your air cooler this is the air cooler 7 now let's get to genshin impact now this is the game we all know takes of course the performance to the max for these kind of devices and also temperatures with the red magic 8 pro we're able to play for 30 minutes on the device and our temperatures with the fan on were 105 degrees it got to about 105 roughly around six minutes into gameplay and it stayed there 105 degrees that's our standard so the the highest 105 was between 100 to 105 on there now turning the five fan off we got temperatures of 111 degrees play with the fan on especially graphical intensive games like genshin now the ASUS ROG phone 7 pro has a new cooling layer built into the device that should reduce those temperatures for you and we try different stages with the air coolant there is a smart there is a cool there is a frosty those three do not require an external power source it will run directly plugged into your device and with that the temperatures drop down from 111 down to 105 roughly 102 to 105 which was really cool but here's the kicker when we put it up to frozen it dropped down all the way to 90 60 degrees fahrenheit it ran cool absolutely cool and you could get to that with the arrow cool it is great so temperatures were fantastic and we got a solid 60 frames per second so performance again was great on both but the cooling of the arrow core 7 is on another level so i have to say that really does well but asus actually can handle his own without a built-in fan into its unit now what about of course the cameras ah you're going what about you know game streaming services let's let's take a quick look at what we get from the cameras the first thing i'll tell you is that asus does a really good job with its stabilization as you can clearly see the front-facing cameras for both are not that great especially on the red magic 8 pro it's just not something to kind of write home about but i'd like to see the improvements continue here especially for the kind of pricing these devices are for gameplay and audio is something to go hand in hand and honestly just take a listen because you will be impressed this is where the asus rg4 and 7 pro really shines the speakers not only are tuned well but also carry a lot of bass and you can see the inflection all the way through compared to the red magic 8 pro which may sound high but very tinny i love the way the asus sound and i think that is very key when you're playing your games especially on game streaming services like xbox game pass i tried it on both of them and both devices handled really well no complaints no issues i use the on-screen buttons and hopefully one day we can remap those buttons to these devices on the other hand when it comes to emulators i did try the psp emulator play that no issues and we know very well snapdragon a gen 2 can handle that so that's something it can do quite well so let's talk about what i think about both devices and who actually won this battle now we look at the red magic 8 pro starts at 699 goes all the way up to a 990 it's what i paid for the titanium version here it's a solid device it works really well it's got a vibrant display it's got that built-in fan which means it cools and you know where that temperature will stay and it's got a big battery and it will do everything you need to do now the rg4 and 7 pro has a design that is dated and does have a better camera than the red magic 8 pro now in terms of cooling it's a little behind because of course it doesn't have a built-in fan but that aero cooler is great which is an additional accessory you have to take with you but when i look at it all together though the rg4 and 7 pro wins for me the speakers sound great that great audio really ties into me and of course just the overall gaming experience with it here really takes it to the very next level i like it i like what it brings to the table and i think a lot of gamers will like that too so let me know what you think which is the better gaming device for you is it the isus rog phone 7 which i stated and i like and it starts at 999 or is it the red magic 8 pro leave your thoughts down below and always enjoy the entertainment