 Hey guys, Thundee here and welcome to the video you've been waiting for. I am talking about gaming on the Seuss ROG Phone 5. Now, the ROG Phone series is well known for its gaming prowls but this video we're going to find out if the ROG Phone 5 is truly taking back the crown as the king of gaming phones. Welcome back guys. So if this is the first time watching videos on this channel, definitely hit the subscribe button and notification icon. If you care about gaming on smartphones or just gaming in general, we do that right here. So in my hand is the Seuss ROG Phone 5 or the ROG Phone 5, whatever you want to call it. And a Seuss has done many different things on this device and we'll be looking at them in different sections. We'll cover audio, we'll cover gaming, we'll cover accessories and we'll cover just the overall functionality of this device including of course battery life. So let's start off with the aesthetics of the ROG Phone 5. In size it's 6.7 inches to some that might seem large but again that's pretty much similar to your S21 Ultra or your Galaxy Note 20 Ultra as well. So size wise, you've got something that is standard within the smartphone realm. It comes in two different colors, you've got the white and you've got the phantom black and I do like the fact that it comes in white now instead of the stereotypical gaming colors that are usually just black and red or whatever the case may be. It's a bit different, it's got a nice curved back to it and of course you do have RGB lighting with the ASUS logo at the back of the device. This of course is very customizable, you can do it directly within the software and that is really nice to see. Now in terms of the display, as you know as gamers we want something that gives us the best amount of functionality and this display is 144Hz, of course it's got an adaptive refresh rate so you can set it at auto and of course we'll set the refresh rate to match what you're doing at the time or you can manually change from 144Hz down to 120 or 60Hz if you choose and the big question is does it eat up battery life? The short answer is no but there's a much better answer so stay tuned for that within the video. Now it's not only 144Hz display, it also has 300Hz touch sampling so while you're gaming and your fingers are gliding across the screen it is so much easier to tap and move and doesn't feel stiff which is something you find with a lot of gaming smartphones. Now you have a couple other functionalities I really geared towards the gamer, you've got two USB ports, one at the bottom and then the other one on the left hand side with of course a proprietary port for the cooling fan. Now that cooling fan has a lot more functionality to it, it's got also a built-in 3.5mm jack which is great so you can do pass-through but the ability to have this side port is great so while you're gaming you can charge your device while gaming at the same time. Now at the very top on the left hand side of the device you do have your touch sensitive trigger buttons they've been more tuned to the ROG Phone 5, they've got better tuning so they feel more comfortable and also the triggers feel really solid while pressing them and of course they are quite remappable overall. When it comes to audio this is where the big part is with this device because you've got a headphone jack back now and you've got some stereo speakers which we should take a look quickly right now and then we'll talk more about it. So you just heard these speakers off the ROG Phone 5 and they do a fantastic job, they are crisp, loud and clear, I mean I put them back there and you can still hear them within the room that's because they use two symmetric super linear drivers that are powered by a mono amplifier so you're giving you that really rich loud clean sound probably the loudest I've heard from any smartphone and also the clearest I've heard from any smartphone in a while and that's that's really good. Now it's got a built-in amplifier app so you can of course change different EQs, music, gaming, movies, you can also manage your EQs in the custom fashion if you want to but the other cool thing about audio on this phone it's got a 3.5mm jack which you know I love right but that jack is also powered by ESS 92, 9280 Pro DAC and as well as also a built-in amplifier as well from ESS Sabre allowing you to drive your headphones to the best so whether you're using ASUS's Centera 2 headphones which are their gaming headphones they do a really good job actually they are really nice or you can drive something a little bit better like the DT9090 Pro which I absolutely love to take your gaming experience to the very next level the audio is so good and I like that they've done some work they're giving you that audio experience that you should definitely get as a gamer. Now how does that audio mixing with gaming you know it's time for us to go check out some gaming performance so let's take a look. So when it comes to gaming performance you can expect the best from the ROG Phone 5 powered by the Snapdragon AAA processor and a whopping 16 gigabytes of RAM in the model I have or 18 gigabytes of RAM in the ultimate edition you can expect the best performance from this device now do we need 16 or 18 gigabytes of RAM I don't think so but ASUS is giving the opportunity to have that on this device. Now when it comes to benchmarks you're looking at a Geek benchmark score of 1118 single core and of course multi cores 3661 so the multi-core performance beats out what we have with the Galaxy S21 Ultra both Exynos and Snapdragon but the single core comes in between the Exynos and the Snapdragon numbers but that is numbers and we don't care about that we saw some of that gameplay it looks smooth it looks fantastic it looked great so what kind of performance can we get with this device this is a real important part with the ROG Phone 5 so starting off with the most basic easy game that we all like to play call-duty mobile runs well runs at 60 frames per second each gameplay session I had I did multiple shorter gameplay sessions and it ran fine and it ran well the one thing to note it's not updated yet so it's not running at the max setting just the high setting it's something because this device while testing it was not available out yet so you can expect that now moving over to PUBG mobile we played roughly around 15 to 20 minutes of gameplay now what you will note is that the game setting is smooth extreme I do not have ultra HD ultra available yet so I could not test it out because again we need an update for that but playing at smooth extreme solid 60 frames per second temperatures while on this hand stayed at about 94 degrees which from roughly I believe around 32 or so so it stayed nice and cool pretty much that whole gameplay session now of course the game we've been waiting for Genshin Impact what kind of gaming performance can we get from this so when briefed by ASUS they said Genshin Impact for about 30 minutes to an hour gameplay we should be getting about 55 frames per second with X mode on so I tried that out I had X mode on I took off the cooling fan which just so you guys know it is really important and I played for about 30 minutes and 50 seconds and we got about 56 frames per second and of course Genshin's highest gameplay mode with you know 60 fps on it ran really solid really well temperatures on the other hand did ramp up quite extraordinarily here so by the end of my gameplay session at 30 minutes the screen itself was about 120 degrees Fahrenheit so that's about 50 degrees Celsius while the rear of the phone was also between 118 to 120 so it ran right a heart on this device that's something that happens now I did the same test again play Genshin Impact with the cooler on the device for 30 minutes and at playing this way I actually got 59 frames per second so pretty much close to 60 frames per second which was good to see the impact of that cooling fan enabling better performance and in terms of temperatures the display still was between 118 to 120 at its maximum while the rear of the device dropped down to about 94 to 98 degrees so it promises about a 10 decrease and that definitely shows it means that look where the processor is where cooling is most needed the fan does work and I was able to get better performance from Genshin Impact so that is something to take note if you're looking at the kind of performance you're going to be getting from this device in terms of any game you want to play it will play well it will play really smooth you can check out the gameplay clips they look absolutely gorgeous very smooth great performance a quick note on game streaming services like Stadia and Xbox Game Pass I will say using the Kinect controller it was a seamless experience it played fast smooth very responsive of course you've got Wi-Fi 6 built into this device so you've got a very clean and fast gameplay experience now with all that gaming performance you're asking how is battery life on this device so Isuzu has come up with a very interesting way of implementing battery on the ROG45 it's got a 6000 mAh battery which sounds absolutely fantastic but it's split into two 3000 mAh batteries there to effect faster charging and also better performance in the long run so with that 6000 mAh battery it comes with a 65 watt charger and Isuzu promises about zero to 151 minutes we got about 58 minutes within an hour which is fine I mean that was actually great to see in terms of battery performance and I was glad that you could actually fast charge this here but it's got a couple of battery modes that are quite interesting overall so when you look at the device you can actually schedule your battery charging if you want to which means that instead of you taking advantage of that full charge it full fast charging you can schedule the time that it will actually fully charge for you so when you're going to bed you can plug it in and maybe between two to six a.m. in the morning that's when it does this full charge and you're good to go you can also slow down that charge process so it doesn't go to zero to 100 all the way it can actually slow down from 80% and then trickle charge all the way to 100 again extending the life of your battery but the best feature that I love for gamers is kind of like this steady charge I believe is the name it's called it gives the ability to do a power pass through so when you're gaming you plug it in right using that side port and you don't want to basically use your battery and you don't want to charge the device while you're gaming because of course that might all affect performance overall what you can do is basically stop the charging and stop the use of the battery and pass do a pass through power from the charger so basically it's running from the charger you lose no juice on your device that is great for battery management it's great for sustaining battery life on this device I think they've done a really good job there so when it comes to accessories asus has done a really good job with the ROG 5 giving you enough accessories that you will definitely need and wants to use now the first one is the aero active 5 cooler we know the asus phones come with coolers in the past for the ROG phones now with the ROG phone 5 you don't get this by an accessory if you get the pro ultimate edition you will get this cooler what's interesting about the cooler it is that not only does it cool and it comes with the 3.5 mm jack it has that port for your usb type c cable it also has two extra paddles which are great because they are remappable for your gaming experience so once you use it you have four extra buttons to use while gaming on your mobile device you've got the two top touch sensitive buttons as well as the extra paddles which makes your gaming experience absolutely awesome playing games like call of duty mobile as well as also pubg it is so great to use it and it's very easy to set up now the next accessory I do like is the konai 3 and this is what it turns into when you use it together with your ROG phone 5 I love it because it gives you a full mobile gaming experience that allows you to play of course your mobile games all the way through but also your game streaming services like stadia as well as also xbox gamepass what's great is that this gives you full button layout you've also got extra buttons at the back that are remappable your ROG lights up at the back of your phone but you can take this off you can slide it back into its dock and then you've got the konai controller as a controller this is pretty good altogether this makes the gaming experience on the ROG phone pretty much to the next level and these are accessories if you want to use them to enhance your gameplay performance these are absolutely worth it now before we round up some of you are asking okay fun to eat it's got it's got cameras on there right how the how's the camera performance well simply put the cameras are okay honestly this is the part of the device that I am really bummed out about because of the pricing we should expect to see here asus has put in a triple camera system one with a macro lens that really isn't worth it the camera steels are okay and decent the front facing camera does a good job at it but I think overall the experience here is something that I expected to see better especially when asus has devices like the zen phone series which hasn't really saw the camera system I was hoping to see that here you've got video with the device as well which has a steady mode which apparently if you turn on video stabilization it cuts all recordings to 1080p or basically super steady if you will but it can record up to 8k 4k 60 and so on and so forth I would say you're not buying this device for the camera we'll give you distant photos and video but if you want a game then let's talk about it before we round up this video the ROG phone 5 we mentioned a bunch of things in this video the things I like and I don't like but overall what do I think about this device I think it's a solid phone I think it's a great gaming phone with great gaming features and all the gaming capabilities you could ever dream of in terms of taking the crown as the gaming phone I think it's back I think asus has taken that crown and they've held it strong and are calling our competitors to challenge them I think if you want to pick this up yeah definitely go ahead if you're a gamer you like to game you want something that will last you the whole day and more the ROG phone 5 is definitely worth it for you if you want to take pictures not so much anyway guys thank you for watching this video hopefully you enjoyed it and you like videos like this if you want to see more if you want to see more gaming on this device definitely head over to board gamer I do have some tips and tricks on how to use the ROG phone 5 you can definitely check out there if you have any questions or any comments let me know otherwise don't forget to like share and always enjoy your entertainment and I'll see you there