 Hey guys, Thundee here and as you can clearly see it's all about gaming and the heart for gamers with the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro versus the Red Magic 9 Pro. This one's going to be very interesting because we're going to see what the best gaming phone is quite early in this year for 2024. As I mentioned the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro is a redesign of the ROG Phone space in terms of design and build. You've got this nice graphite looking back as you can see and then you also have the animatrix animation which Asus has been using on a lot of their laptops built into the device as well and of course a brand new camera hump. This is where Asus talks about going beyond gaming here with the camera sensors you will find on the regular Zenfone devices you can find here on this gaming device. Now this shouldn't be lost that this is not a gaming device because it's packed with a ton of features. You've got the Snapdragon 8th Gen 3. You've also got the new Ultimate Cooling with some very interesting cooling layers set up on this device to make sure that your cooling is solid. You've got shoulder triggers as well and you've got two USB ports, one on the side and of course one on the back plus a headphone jack. So everything you need for that gaming performance. Now don't think that the Red Magic 9 Pro is a slouch in every respect. This thing looks absolutely lovely. It comes in three different color variants and do have the transparent black here as you can see it clearly says Snapdragon 8th Gen 3 on it and you know Red Magic comes in the built-in fan. That fan is faster and also quieter as you use it. You've got a dual camera set up here and with the Red Magic phones you do have your shoulder buttons which do light up as well as also what I like to call the gaming switch which takes you straight into the gaming hub for the Red Magic phone. There is one USB port at the bottom and a headphone jack on the top. So now that we have some of the early specs out of the way, let's take a look at the displays for both devices. 6.7 inches for the ASUS ROG Phone 8 Pro as well as 6.8 on the Red Magic. Both of them are really good. You've got high refresh rates on both displays with the ASUS leading the pack at 165 hertz while the Red Magic is at 120. That being said it doesn't mean that of course you will find games to match that. So jumping into benchmarks we geeked Ben 6. We have some interesting numbers where the numbers are very close for both devices as you can clearly see both the ASUS and the Red Magic 9 Pro got above 2,000, 2,250 for the ASUS, 2,272 for the Red Magic while the ASUS got 7,135 for multicore and Red Magic got 7,108. Really close numbers and when we look at GPU performance for both of them we can see that GPU is also quite interesting with 14,326 for the ASUS while 14,885 for the Red Magic. Close numbers overall but really high and impressive numbers. Now taking a look at 3DMark scores here we're going to go to wildlife extreme and here the numbers are close again with the ASUS winning at 5,208 and the Red Magic at 5,167. Average frame rate is 31, frames per second for the ASUS 34, the Red Magic you can see the numbers really close, 97% scores, great temperatures and bad performance all around. We also did a solar bar score as well where the ASUS got 8,689, frame rate average is 33 while the Red Magic got 8,694 with the frame rate of 33 as well. So again really close numbers all the way through but what does that mean for us while we game? So we started off with of course Call of Duty Mobile and playing Call of Duty Mobile both devices were set to the highest settings you'd expect and starting off with the ASUS we got a solid clean 120 frames per second. Now that's pretty solid and really great performance overall, I did like it as well as also the Red Magic 9 Pro did a solid 120 frames per second. Both devices handled really well and as you can see it ran very very well. Now we went over to PUBG Mobile where the ASUS has the capability of running at 90 frames per second gameplay so we played that and it ran a solid 90 frames per second which is pretty nice as well, played really well, no issues, no slowdowns. Then with the Red Magic 9 Pro we couldn't do that but we were able to do both smooth extreme at 60 frames per second locked solid and then of course Ultra HD Ultra at 40 frames per second. Again that ran well, that did good. Now some would say that is better with ASUS but I just think it's something where the game has to be optimized or at least updated for the Red Magic to actually hit those numbers because in terms of benchmarks they're pretty much the same. Now when we move over to Genshin Impact this is where I also included some of my temperature tests. ASUS ROG Phone 8 Pro, this did a solid 60 frames per second for 30 minutes. Now you can see the press announcements from both companies, they talked about how they can play Genshin for 30 minutes at 60 FPS. What I wanted to see was what temperatures would be with the new cooling chambers with the ASUS device and it did pretty well. It went up to about 42 degrees around the 15 minute mark. Then I went ahead and applied the new Aerocooler. Now this should bring the temperatures down by I believe 10 to 15% and it did a good job brought the temperatures down to 38 degrees as I continued to play. And it stayed at 38 going through another 15 minutes of gameplay so I think with the cooler on you will get that solid cool temperature at around 38 or slightly lower and I think it dipped down when I switched from Genshin Impact to about 34. Now what about the Red Magic 9 Pro which has that built in cooler there. Now once you start playing usually you can set the cooler to turn on once you fire up a game or whatever situation you want to. Also in the case you can use the cooler while you are charging your device to keep your device cool and with Genshin Impact you're able to play 30 minutes at 60 frames per second but what's interesting is the temperature stayed at around 38-39 degrees the whole time so that built in cooler really comes in handy and it wasn't loud. It's about 22-25% quieter so which means you're getting less noise and get still getting higher cooling rates with the inbuilt cooler and it does just as well as the external cooler. I think that's a huge win for Red Magic. Now both devices do have game centers you can go into which is quite interesting giving you a lot of customization in there. Now with the Suisse ROG Phone 8 Pro you can tap the X button and that takes you into the console mode where you can select different options for your performance dynamic or ultra. You can also go into the anime vision which is of course the animated logo behind your device which gives you a bunch of customizations there where you can change half customizations for music, notifications, charging, the ROG logo screen on and off while you're gaming recording all those things built in. I also have customizations for your arrow cooler as well. Now the other thing too is you do have the game genie when you are gaming and this also gives you more customization. You pull that from the either top or left right hand corner and that gives you the ability to customize say like the on-screen FPS counter. You can also turn off notifications, you can add in a cursor. The menu functionality is built into this and that's pretty nice. Now with the Red Magic 9 Pro you do have something similar but Red Magic also has that game button on the side which is really cool. That slider works well with no matter where you are you want to game. You hit the slider and then it takes you straight into the game center. The Red Magic game center allows you to customize everything for each game, fully customize the world. There are also some really great plugins including one for Diablo mode which is a higher performance mode that moves your clock speed up to 3.3 gigahertz per second and it has similar features when you go into your game where you can swipe from the left twice and that will bring up your in-game menu and you can do a lot of customizations with the trigger buttons as well as some of the game functions as well which is pretty nice. Now some of you ask about emulators. Now, Saber Dragon Agent 3 runs emulators really well and you only see that performance all the way through. Looking at PSP emulator playing God of War there it ran well on both the Asus as well as the Red Magic 60 frames per second, 10x resolution on both devices really solved. You can tell how well it handles on the Asus as well as also the Red Magic and moving over to the GameCube emulator, Dolphin emulator played F-Zero GX which ran at 60 FPS as well as also Star Wars World Leader which also ran at 60 FPS although I did have to drop it down to 1080p for those two GameCube games which also did the same on the Red Magic as well. So performance for emulators for both of them were really solid and I think a lot of people were like that. Now as your gaming audio is really important and I want you guys to take a listen to the speakers of both devices to see how well they sound. Now when it comes to speakers we've heard audio from both the ROG Phone 8 Pro and the Red Magic 9 Pro and the clear winner is the ROG 8 Pro. Now even though the ROG doesn't have the dual front facing speakers anymore it just sounds better and sounds clearer than what Red Magic does have. Red Magic is loud but it's not as clear and it's not as rich in the base there. So speakers, Asus ROG 8 Pro wins. Then what about battery life? Now both devices have some really large batteries and we do have a 5500 mAh battery on the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro while we have a 6500 mAh battery on the Red Magic 9 Pro and that 6500 mAh really showcases on the Red Magic. That battery lasts a really long time and it is great for all use cases. So in terms of battery life it takes the cake here even though the Asus Red Magic 8 Pro has a really good battery. So the last thing I want to talk about are the cameras. Now Asus has talked about how they've actually gone past gaming and giving you flagship cameras on your device. So I want to see how it stands against the Red Magic 9 Pro. Now Red Magic also has something very interesting where they have an under the display camera in the front and I'll just say this right now let's just stop doing that until we perfect that technology because the camera even though it is better than what I've seen in the Galaxy Fold it's still not great, doesn't compete with Asus and it's just something that shouldn't be on any device till it's improved. But what about the rear cameras? Let's take a look at some of the images and video from them. Honestly I think the image quality is very similar with the Red Magic winning in some situations and Asus winning in others as well. So I'm not sure where the leg up is for Asus in the camera department. I think some of the video is better but I want to know what your thoughts are and I want to know what your thoughts are in general between two devices here. Do you think the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro is still the leader in mobile gaming smartphones or do you think the Red Magic 9 Pro has taken that crown especially early on in the year? Now the reason I say that is also when you look at price the Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro is priced at $1,099 while the Red Magic you can get it for about 920. Now Asus also goes up to 24GB of RAM, 1TB of storage. So let me know your thoughts guys, who do you think won this battle bit? Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.