ISSUE 67 • ANDROID ADVISOR 57REVIEWaddition to having 12GB of RAM and 512GB of
storage, it comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon
855+ processor. This is an improved version of
the company’s flagship chip and boosts CPU
performance by a slender 4 percent and GPU
speeds by a much meatier 15 percent.
To the average phone user that won’t mean
much, or even be noticeable in day-to-day usage.
If, however, you’re throwing some serious games
at it day-in, day-out, then that extra performance
will start to add up in frames per second. It helps
that with solid cooling (and an optional fan
accessory) there should be no need for throttling
performance even at high loads.
You can see how the ROG Phone II compares
with its predecessor and key rivals, including
the Razer Phone II and Red Magic 3, in our
benchmarks overleaf. It’s tight at the top, but
Asus’s latest offering smashes it out the park by
coming top in every single test.
Display
You’ll need every frame you can get, too, if you
want to make the most of the 6.59in AMOLED
display, which has a 120Hz refresh rate – up from
90Hz in the original ROG Phone. This means silky
smooth navigation and scrolling, and even smoother
performance in, for example, MOBA games, where
the high refresh rate tends to pay dividends.
Note that the screen is set to 60Hz by default, so
you’ll need to head into the settings to change it –
90Hz is also an option if you want a halfway house.