RedMagic 11 Pro Review

RedMagic is backmost with yet different smartphone touting utmost show astatine a terms that undercuts virtually thing you’d pit against it. With a starting terms of $749 (alas, up from past year’s $649), the RedMagic 11 Pro brings Snapdragon’s latest flagship chip, stylish hardware, a stunning display, and gaming features that really marque a difference. It’s besides gone a measurement beyond progressive aerial cooling this year, further solidifying its spot among the champion gaming phones retired there. While there’s ever immoderate sacrifices to bash that overmuch portion keeping the terms down, you’ll conscionable person to determine for yourself if those sacrifices adhd up to much.

RedMagic 11 Pro – Design and Features

The RedMagic 11 Pro inactive has the dazzle that’s made the past mates generations of this bid truthful stunning. This includes slim bezels each the mode astir the display, an invisible selfie camera for a existent fullscreen, a level backmost with nary camera bumps, and a transparent rear to amusement disconnected RedMagic’s top-tier cooling solution.

On the RedMagic 11 Pro, that cooling includes the progressive aerial cooler that has been a mainstay of the series. This pulls aerial done a duct wrong the telephone to chill the CPU with vents connected either of its agelong sides and an RGB turbine instrumentality disposable done the back. This clip around, RedMagic has besides built successful a liquid cooling loop. While usually you wouldn’t beryllium capable to spot the azygous fluid successful motion, RedMagic has inserted 2 types of fluid to item the question similar a lava lamp. That’s each paired with a big of different heat-transfer materials and a ample vapor enclosure to dispersed and dissipate vigor from the Snapdragon spot powering the phone.

In spite of these additions, the RedMagic 11 Pro hasn’t changed excessively overmuch successful presumption of size oregon weight. It’s inactive a sizable telephone astatine 6.45 x 3.01 x 0.35 inches (increasing nary much than 0.02 inches successful immoderate dimension) and weighty astatine 8.11 ounces, but that’s not antithetic for a smartphone with a surface arsenic ample arsenic its 6.85 inches.

The show is mostly unchanged this year, with the aforesaid 1216x2688 solution moving astatine 144Hz. It’s not rated to tally rather arsenic bright, but with a highest of 1,800 nits, it’s inactive a stunning AMOLED display, offering vivid colour and bold opposition for games and movies alike. The information that the selfie camera doesn’t interrupt the show helps marque it that overmuch much engrossing. Like the selfie camera, a fingerprint scanner is besides hidden nether the display, and it works rapidly and consistently.

The speakers battalion a decent punch excessively with a satisfying sound. They tin duck a small astatine max volume, but they’re different solid. They’re not the lone happening that makes sound, though. When the cooling instrumentality kicks on, it besides kicks up a shrill racket – a broadside effect of that of that 24,000 RPM – though it tin manually beryllium deactivated erstwhile not needed, adjacent portion gaming.

RedMagic has made a sturdy phone, too. It feels similar a brick. The show and rear some get solid from Corning, though RedMagic doesn’t specify the type. The beforehand includes a pre-applied surface protector that hasn’t scratched astatine each successful my clip testing. Impressively, the telephone besides comes with an IPX8 rating. That’s managed by having the aerial duct beryllium an “independent cooling structure,” preventing h2o from getting into the remainder of the strategy and damaging it.

The remainder of the telephone is acquainted successful bully ways. It carries the torch for 3.5mm headphone jacks with a larboard astatine the apical of the phone. It includes interaction enarthrosis buttons that are useful for gaming and toggle to activate its peculiar gaming launching. At the bottommost borderline you’ll find a dual SIM slot useful for question (no eSIM though), and a USB-C larboard bully for 10Gbps transfers and 80W wired charging. In spite of each its cooling hardware, the RedMagic 11 Pro inactive recovered country for a wireless charging pad that besides offers 80W charging speeds.

RedMagic 11 Pro – Software

The RedMagic 11 Pro comes with Android 16 retired of the box, and RedMagic is promising 2 years of OS updates (i.e., up to Android 18) and 3 years of information patches. Despite its gaming nature, the operating strategy doesn’t importune connected a gaming theme, adjacent offering the enactment of a much subtle inheritance and icon taxable for the device. It does inactive travel with a spot of bloatware, including a clump of games and tools pre-installed and the ever dubious Mora character, which present features an integrated chatbot that doesn’t enactment terribly well.

The Game Space continues to beryllium a utile hub for changing crippled and show settings. Not each mounting is intuitive, but the app volition supply immoderate accusation the archetypal clip you tally it that’ll beryllium worthy paying attraction to. This year, it includes a caller diagnostic called AI trigger that automatically performs actions, which sounds astir similar cheating. Getting it to enactment is different question entirely, arsenic it relies connected screenshots and AI designation to determine erstwhile to execute an action, and the erstwhile makes nary notation of which games it supports. Another caller diagnostic lets you swap your dependable in-game for Mora’s voice, which is simply a astonishing 1 to adhd due to the fact that adjacent the Mora app isn’t accordant astir what her dependable sounds similar and the chatbot doesn’t usage her dependable astatine all.

Some utile tools inactive bent around, similar the 1 for remapping the enarthrosis buttons and the question controls, which fto you marque gestures with the telephone to execute actions. I recovered this useful successful games similar Call of Duty, wherever I could reload by flipping the telephone up concisely and swap weapons with a sideways twist.

RedMagic 11 Pro – Gaming and Performance

The RedMagic 11 Pro has benignant enough, but show is wherever it is king. Few phones connection the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 spot truthful far. The OnePlus 15 is one, and that spot made it 1 of the fastest phones we’ve tested successful a clump of areas. The lone crushed it wasn’t the fastest was due to the fact that it was tested alongside the RedMagic 11 Pro, which took things to different level still.

In Geekbench 6, the RedMagic 11 Pro offered the fastest multi-core show we’ve seen by far, hitting a 11,248.5-point average, acold outstripping the 9,339 points of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and adjacent the 10,100 of the OnePlus 15. In 3DMark’s graphics benchmarks, it besides enactment each challengers down it. In Wild Life Extreme, Steel Nomad Light, and Solar Bay, it led the pack. In those 3DMark tests, it averaged a 7.82% pb implicit the OnePlus 15, and from there, the spread lone widened. It led the iPhone 17 Pro Max successful Wild Life Extreme by a staggering 59.6%. Even against Snapdragon 8 Elite chips successful a telephone similar the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, the RedMagic 11 Pro pulled up by an mean of 36.8%.

That translates to fantabulous gaming performance. The RedMagic 11 Pro was blessed to max retired the settings successful each crippled I threw astatine it. More often, the limiting origin was what the game’s settings would let – Wuthering Waves, Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, Call of Duty Mobile, War Thunder Mobile, Destiny: Rising, you sanction it.

The telephone tin get a small spot lukewarm portion gaming, but its cooling strategy proves capable. For astir gaming, it didn’t adjacent look to request to max retired its fans. And adjacent erstwhile throwing it a gauntlet similar the Steel Nomad Light Stress Test, it performed with 84.50% consistency. A accent trial similar that truly heats things up, but adjacent past the telephone itself remained lone lukewarm to the touch. It adjacent completed the Wild Life Extreme Stress Test that galore reviewers person recovered the OnePlus 15 crashing retired connected (though the RedMagic 11 Pro gets rather blistery successful this test).

That level of utmost show and the quality to prolong it adjacent with mounting vigor readily lets the RedMagic 11 Pro instrumentality the gaming crown. And naturally, that translates to creaseless mundane operation, with the telephone ne'er feeling the slightest spot challenged with emblematic operation.

RedMagic includes the artillery to lucifer each that horsepower, slotting successful a 7,500mAh battalion that’s much than blessed to spell a mates of days without a recharge oregon prolong lengthy gameplay sessions.

The RedMagic 11 Pro seems to connection dependable networking arsenic well. Testing with a T-Mobile SIM installed, I mostly had a bully awesome and could spot download speeds implicit 100Mbps.

RedMagic 11 Pro – Cameras

The cameras connected the RedMagic 10 Pro weren’t each that impressive, and not overmuch has changed this generation. Here are the sensors included connected the phone:

• 50MP Wide, f/1.88, 1/1.55”, OIS, OV50E40
• 50MP ultrawide, f/2.0, 1/2.88”, OV50D40
• 2MP auxiliary sensor
• 16MP Selfie, f/2.0

As with earlier models, the RedMagic 11 Pro continues to slap a sizable banner watermark astatine the bottommost of photos taken connected it by default with nary notice.

The main sensor connected the RedMagic 11 Pro is solid. It captures immoderate large close-up item with lovely, earthy color. Got pets? They’ll look large successful beforehand of this lens. It tin snag immoderate vibrant quality shots, too, though distant item gets fuzzy. Digital zoom is besides a wash, conscionable showing disconnected the deficiency of sharpness of those distant subjects.

The ultra-wide besides falls abbreviated of the main sensor. Colors from it deficiency the vibrance of the main sensor, and it doesn’t compensate capable for its tighter aperture, producing noticeably darker images. That leads to unfortunate inconsistency betwixt the 2 sensors.

Selfie camera sample

That 2MP sensor isn’t specified arsenic a macro sensor, but the telephone produces 2MP photos erstwhile shooting successful macro mode, truthful it’s a harmless stake that’s the sensor it deploys. Either way, it’s a bittersweet sensor that would person been conscionable arsenic good omitted.

It’s hard to accidental whether the selfie camera is conscionable inherently not large oregon the under-display setup hampers it, but the constituent is that it doesn’t look good. It exhibits immoderate unsightly oversharpening that creates colour fingering (notice each the bluish and yellowish connected my monochrome jacket?), and it inactive produces brushed images.