62 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 65BUYING GUIDEoriginal boasts arguably the best smartphone
display out there, that’s no bad thing.Processor, memory and storage
Internal specs haven’t had a major shift either. The
processor has had the expected upgrade from the
Snapdragon 835 to this year’s flagship 845 chip
to keep pace with other top phones. It also now
features Vapor Chamber Cooling – a lot of fancy
words to say that it should stay cooler even at peak
performance – though we have noticed that the
phone does still get noticeably hot in use.
As with the previous model, you get 8GB of
RAM and 64GB of storage, together with a microSD
card slot – though this will accept cards up to 2TB,
giving you plenty of room to expand.
As to be expected, the Razer Phone 2 is rapid both
in general use and when gaming, especially with the
display clocked up to 120Hz. That’s backed up by
a Geekbench 4 multi-core score of 8,955, blowing
the Xiaomi Black Shark’s 7,173 out of the water.
It’s not clear-cut though; the Razer Phone 2
boasts impressive GFXBench results in T-Rex at
90fps, but when it came to the high-intensity Car
Chase test, Razer’s new model managed only
22fps compared to 31fps by Xiaomi’s offering.
This can be down to several factors, including the
fact that Razer’s smartphone offers a much higher
resolution and has to power more pixels. In reality,
though, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll notice any
lag when gaming on the Razer Phone 2, even with
graphically-intense games such as PUBG Mobile.62 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 65BUYING GUIDE
original boasts arguably the best smartphone
display out there, that’s no bad thing.Processor, memory and storage
Internal specs haven’t had a major shift either. The
processor has had the expected upgrade from the
Snapdragon 835 to this year’s flagship 845 chip
to keep pace with other top phones. It also now
features Vapor Chamber Cooling – a lot of fancy
words to say that it should stay cooler even at peak
performance – though we have noticed that the
phone does still get noticeably hot in use.
As with the previous model, you get 8GB of
RAM and 64GB of storage, together with a microSD
card slot – though this will accept cards up to 2TB,
giving you plenty of room to expand.
As to be expected, the Razer Phone 2 is rapid both
in general use and when gaming, especially with the
display clocked up to 120Hz. That’s backed up by
a Geekbench 4 multi-core score of 8,955, blowing
the Xiaomi Black Shark’s 7,173 out of the water.
It’s not clear-cut though; the Razer Phone 2
boasts impressive GFXBench results in T-Rex at
90fps, but when it came to the high-intensity Car
Chase test, Razer’s new model managed only
22fps compared to 31fps by Xiaomi’s offering.
This can be down to several factors, including the
fact that Razer’s smartphone offers a much higher
resolution and has to power more pixels. In reality,
though, it’s highly unlikely that you’ll notice any
lag when gaming on the Razer Phone 2, even with
graphically-intense games such as PUBG Mobile.