The RedMagic 10S Pro is a mid-season upgrade of the 10 Pro. That phone arrived late last year as one of the first Snapdragon 8 Elite devices and it was the first RedMagic to use liquid metal to improve cooling. The company has had time to refine its setup since then.
The “Leading Version” of the Snapdragon 8 Elite is now available, which overclocks the CPU and GPU. The two Orion Prime cores now run at 4.47GHz, up from 4.32GHz on the original model, the six performance cores stay put. Also, the Adreno 830 GPU now runs at 1.2GHz, up from 1.1GHz.
RedMagic 10S Pro in Nightfall, Moonlight and Dusk
There are other changes – the RAM (up to 24GB) is now LPDDR5T, which should offer more bandwidth than the LPDDR5X used in the 10 Pro. Storage is up to 1TB of UFS 4.1 Pro.
Performance
We tested the RedMagic 10S Pro with and without its cooling fan to see how much of a difference it made. Let’s look at performance first – note that the fan doesn’t really do much for peak performance, it’s mostly about sustained performance, which is coming up in the next chapter.
With the Prime CPU cores clocked higher, the 10S Pro edges out ahead of the 10 Pro in the Geekbench single-threaded test and is ahead of a pack of Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 powered phones. However, once the two Prime cores have to share the power budget with the six Performance cores, things even out with the original model. There are still applications that do heavy single-threaded tasks, they should see a small bump. Optimized apps and games won’t see a big benefit.
Source: RedMagic 10S Pro benchmarks and throttling tests
