The K50 universe is finally here! The first model is the most powerful K50 e-sports version, as the sequel to the previous generation of K40G, K50 e-sports edition can be said to carry forward the fine traditions of the previous generation this time, not only has an excellent game experience, but also the overall experience of the mobile phone is full, and the overall balance is more balanced and comprehensive.
Rather than being an "e-sports phone", I would like to call it a "game workhorse", which is suitable for daily use as a workhorse and has the ultimate mobile game experience.
No less than the configuration and experience of the flagship machine positioning, but also has the exclusive physical buttons and cool appearance of the e-sports mobile phone, the K50 e-sports version of the all-round upgrade is undoubtedly a good start to this year's Redmi, and also announces the official opening of the K50 universe.
Racing design, the passion of gamers romantic
When I picked up the K50 esports version, I found at a glance that its design was inspired by racing cars, the back of the AG glass process, the central axis and the waist of the fuselage were outlined by the smooth glass to outline the sports car style lines, very textured, the color scheme in my hand is called "Silver Wing", the actual look and feel of the real machine is even cooler than on the rendering, and the glossy homogeneous process of the back panel even brings the illusion of metal texture visually.
K50G fuselage frame using a full straight edge design, the overall style is more tough, as a game phone, 8.5mm thickness, 213g weight is also more reasonable control, in the stacking of materials at the same time can also take into account the daily use of the scene of one-handed holding feel.
Although it is not light, due to the position of the fuselage center of gravity close to the middle, it does not feel pressed when holding it in the hand.
In addition to the fingerprint key, the rest of the keys are also using CNC chamfering process, the feel is also extremely solid, there will be no large shaking, the key range and feedback feel show that the machine is solid, in daily use I once felt that this is a standard flagship model.
If you look closely at the fuselage, you can also find that the "X" element runs through almost every detail on the fuselage, and the matte part of the back of the fuselage is a huge "X", the lens module, the speaker opening, the volume key, and everywhere you can see the large and small "X" elements echoing each other.
The breathing lights and lightning flashes on the K40G, two of my favorite designs, have been continued on the K50 gaming version, and they have also made the gaming style of the whole machine more intense, after all, RGB is productivity, besides, who doesn't want a cool lightning-shaped flash?
However, the K50 e-sports version is the most distinctive and the most e-sports mobile phone style is these two magnetic power shoulder keys, which can be popped up with a swipe. Compared with touch, pressure, the physical feedback of the physical button is incomparable to other ways, for some games of multi-finger operation, two fingers scattered into the fuselage frame can also increase the field of vision of the game, the conventional holding method can also get a more extreme control experience.
But there is one point I still want to complain about, this shoulder key toggle switch if it is not raised, so that even if the shoulder key is recycled, there will still be two raised keys on the middle frame, affecting the feel.
And this shoulder key also supports the custom shortcut function, you can set double-click or long press to open the flashlight, camera and other new usage, may be because of the fear of accidental touch, so there is no click in the custom settings. If you can press the shutter by default in the camera page, it would be good, so that there is an additional "physical shutter key" when taking pictures.
On the basis of the K50 e-sports version, Redmi also deeply customizes a "K50 Championship Edition", which cooperates with the only eight-time champion in history - Mercedes-AMG F1 team, from the inside to the outside, it is integrated into countless F1 events and the exclusive elements of AMG-F1 teams, which can be said to be very careful.
Exclusive green waistline, carbon fiber texture, F1 checkered flag dark pattern... All show the speed and competitiveness of the K50 Championship Edition.
The champion version of the box is also a gift box version, which is larger and more delicate than the standard version.
On the side are AMG F1 race cars, and the bottom of the box pulls out the charger and data cable.
The charging head is also replaced by a 120W GaN charger with USB-C interface, which is more compact and portable.
However, it is a pity that the charging cable does not do L-shaped design, and the charging cable of the standard version of the magic USB-A interface adopts the design of L-type, and the dual C-port cable of the L type can only be purchased by yourself.
In addition, the water jacket included in the box is decent, it is recommended to buy the K50 e-sports version of the exclusive metal magnetic heat dissipation phone case, the texture is better, and with the Black Shark ice refrigeration back clip 2 can better suppress this dragon SoC.
It is worth mentioning that this K50G exclusive metal magnetic heat dissipation mobile phone case is also full of sincerity, designed for the game, even if the installation of the mobile phone case will not hinder the heat export of the fuselage, the magnetic power shoulder key switch can also be easily slid on the mobile phone case to open, plus the mobile phone case, while protecting the mobile phone, the overall appearance is more handsome.
Top heat dissipation, taming powerful fire dragons full of blood
As the first esports phone on the market equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the performance of the K50 esports version, especially the performance of the game, is what I pay the most attention to, although it is the same SoC, but the temperature control strategy of the esports mobile phone will be more aggressive, and the performance scheduling will be more fierce.
I also scored it under test conditions: 20°C room temperature, performance mode, sufficient power.
The specifics are as follows:
AnTutu running score of 1008901 points easily crossed the million mark, of which the CPU score was 223228 points and the GPU score was 435458 points, which was a huge improvement over the Snapdragon 888.
Geekbench5 has a single-core score of 1159 points and a multi-core score of 3466 points. The score for OpenCL is 5981 and the Vulkan score is 6796.
However, the running points belong to the running points, and the actual game experience still has to open the game to know that we still carry out the experience of the three major national mobile games as usual.
First of all, the king of glory, the frame rate is set to extremely high, the resolution is set to ultra-high, through Perfdog real-time monitoring of the king of glory of a whole game frame rate situation (about 30 min), you can see that the frame rate curve fluctuation is very small, almost has been stable at 120fps, there is no cliff dropping situation at all.
However, it is not uncommon to be able to play the king at 120fps full frame rate, and the 60fps test of the original god is the real test. I have to say that it is unlikely that the original god wants to get a perfect frame rate curve, but the average frame rate of 57.2fps is still a very good result.
During the 15-minute game, the frame rate fluctuation of the fight scene will be more obvious, but there is no obvious drop-frame stuttering phenomenon in the naked eye. Frame rate curve interrupts cliff drop frames for character death and teleportation to switch scenes.
And after 15min of the original god game, the body temperature of the mobile phone is not very hot, the maximum temperature on the back of the measured back is 41.2 ° C, the maximum temperature on the front is only 37.3 ° C, and the maximum temperature in the middle frame is only 39.7 ° C, for the Snapdragon 8, such a temperature has been particularly "cold".
From the temperature, you can clearly feel the luxury of the K50G in the use of heat dissipation materials, double VC liquid cooling, large area graphene, thermal copper block instead of gel, the configuration of passive heat dissipation of mobile phones is almost on the top, and finally it is indeed the dragon that is pressed down.
As a game phone with shoulder keys, the most suitable is definitely this kind of FPS game, when playing Peace Elite, these two shoulder keys are definitely "physical plug-ins", I am used to setting the left shoulder button for the opening mirror, the right shoulder button for shooting, you can also set it in segments, press the opening mirror, let go of the hand to shoot, so that even if it is moving, you can easily press the gun to take away the opponent.
After turning on the 4D vibration, the footsteps and shooting have vibration feedback, and the immersion of the whole game is stronger, which makes me find a little feeling of playing shooting 3A with the controller, especially the vibration of the shooting key press, as if the trigger is really pulled, and the new CyberEngine ultra-wideband X-axis linear motor is extremely sensitive.
And thanks to the wideband four-speakers tuned by JBL on both sides of the fuselage, even the amplifier can listen to the sound debate position, and hear the opponent's footsteps to eliminate it with one blow. The new standalone tweeters complement the treble and add a lot of detail to the sound.
A whole game (20min) is steadily maintained at 60fps, there is almost no frame drop and card frame situation, and the whole game experience is excellent except for the lack of a chicken at the end.
And in the game can also slide sideways to call out the suspension menu, the side can open the application window, switch the performance mode, and display the CPU, GPU occupancy and real-time frame rate in real time, as well as a variety of practical tools in the game can be turned on at any time, and also added a bullet screen notification in the game, so that the game can see the message pop-up window, but also will not block the field of vision.
Comprehensive experience, full of workhorse level
Last year, Redmi Note 11 Pro+ directly pulled the charging power of The Redmi mobile phone to 120W, and the K50 e-sports version also increased the battery capacity to 4700mAh on the basis of the 120W super power fairy second charge, which further improved the endurance of the whole machine, without using the single cell scheme of the Mi 12 series, it is still a dual-cell scheme, but the charging is really fast.
The measured screen off state can be charged from 1% to 100% within 19 minutes, and the peak power in the screen out state is about 96W.
In the case of playing while charging can also achieve extremely fast charging speed, because the K50 gaming version adopts the design of the heat source is arranged separately, so the SoC heat and charging heat are separated, and the actual measurement can be charged from 1% to 100% from about 1% in the case of opening the King of Glory 120fps game.
Thanks to the design of the heat source partition, the charging power of the fuselage temperature increase in the game is also around 83W, and even this power can exceed a large number of mid-range models on the market.
In terms of battery life, the large battery of 4700mAh is enough for a day to use, even if it is a heavy mobile game player, 120W charging power can also help the mobile phone quickly return to the blood, if you want to play while charging, the L-type charging plug will not interfere with the player's game operation at all, the line length of 1.5m can also let people play arbitrarily in any posture, how to play how to play, after I lie on the workstation to play the game no longer need to feel that the socket is too far.
In terms of display, the performance of this screen has also passed the certification of DisplayMate A+, reaching 15 screen records, supporting 10bit color depth, and the color level will be calibrated before leaving the factory, Delta E ≈ 0.30, which is already a professional-level color accuracy. Even if it is not used for games, daily life and work can bring comfortable and accurate colors, do not worry about the problem of retouching and grading on the mobile phone, the video and audio experience is not a problem, and high-frequency PWM dimming can also avoid the sour eyes caused by stroboscopic.
For the game, 120Hz high brush can bring a smoother screen display, 480Hz ultra-high touch sampling rate can give users a more silky experience, the design of the straight screen is more friendly to the operation of the game, reducing the possibility of accidental touch, but also to avoid the phenomenon of reddish green screen edges caused by curved design, and the center digging hole can also bring a very close to the full screen look.
However, the screen border is still slightly wider at this node in 2022, but in gaming phones, this width can also be regarded as a very narrow border.
The camera of the game phone can scan the code for me, but the K50G's main camera still uses a well-polished IMX686 and is also equipped with an anti-flicker sensor, which can effectively avoid the appearance of strobe stripes in the picture when shooting projection and computer screens.
The IMX686 has 6400W pixels and supports 4-in-1.6μm large pixels, which can get very pure photos even in low-light conditions.
K50G has also made a significant upgrade to the ancestral infrared, which is simply that it can be remotely controlled farther, sitting in the last row of the classroom can also turn on the air conditioning on the podium, and the remote control angle has also been expanded to 50° And the more delicate angle can also be remotely controlled.
summary
K50 esports edition is a product that is chased after the K40G sold out, for a game phone, 50W+ of the number of east reviews is beyond reach. Therefore, Redmi keenly found that the original focus on mobile games but can take into account the daily use of mobile phones have a great market demand, people for the control of mobile games are getting higher and higher, which also gave birth to a number of main "e-sports" mobile phones on the market, K50 e-sports version is obviously launched under this idea.
So we can see that the K50 e-sports version has the ultimate performance and strong heat dissipation capabilities at the same time, but also has an excellent daily use experience, and does not affect the other experience of the phone itself because of too much pursuit of the game experience, is a product that has no shortcomings in all aspects, and the game ability is particularly prominent.
For many digital enthusiasts or gamers, the game phone is their just need, but if it can only be used to play games, other experiences are very bad, you have to prepare another phone to use, and the K50 e-sports version may be the best solution to this pain point.