I’ve just started testing a smartphone with more RAM than my custom-built gaming PC and I just don’t get it.
It’s no secret that modern Android phones often pack unnecessary specs — I’m looking at you,108MP cameras and 4K screens — and the new Nubia Red Magic 7 Pro brings some more. This is a new gaming phone from a company that’s made quite a few at this point (hence the ‘7’ in the name), so you’d think it’d know exactly what gamers need. Well, what they apparently need is more RAM than your average gaming PC. That’s right, the newly-unveiled Red Magic 7 Pro comes in a few configurations, and they top out at a whopping 18GB of RAM. Or, if you want to stick to a measly 16GB of RAM, you can go up to 1TB of storage space. That’s a lot. When I took the phone out of the box, and saw the high specs on the side of the box, I was pretty startled. But it was only when I was playing on my gaming PC later that I really twigged those specs. My gaming PC, built in 2021 to be able to handle high-end gaming, as well as whatever DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects could throw at it, has ‘only’ 16GB of RAM.
