Every product created has to abide by specific standards to appeal to the general public. These goalposts allow manufacturers to analyze, improve, and elevate designs for future generations and rollouts. In the tech field, devices are often run through a gauntlet of tests once they’ve been released to help users compare different important metrics before making a purchase. These are generally called benchmark tests.
In this blog article, we’ll be looking at the reasoning and significance behind benchmark tests on gaming smartphones in particular, combing through specific tests and how they evaluate different elements of the device. For now, let’s get a better understanding of what smartphone benchmark tests are in the first place.
What Are Smartphone Benchmark Tests?
A benchmark test is essentially a performance test that measures specific requirements and key metrics. These tests use fixed reference points to understand the functionality and accuracy of each element being tested. In a smartphone benchmark test, the metrics are typically based on the device’s components, like the GPU, CPU, memory, battery, and more.
A benchmark is meant to assess how well each of these systems functions under normal and peak working conditions. Smartphone benchmark tests generally test speed, responsiveness, endurance, thermal management, and reliability.
While these tests are typically done by reviewers after a device is launched, they are just as important to manufacturers, who can then identify performance issues and areas that need to be improved.
What Do Benchmark Tests Prove?
Now, a benchmark test is generally an objective overview of a device’s capabilities; however, its results can vary marginally across testing platforms at times. This is why most reviewers use benchmark tests alongside their own personal gameplay testing and standards to provide a more comprehensive idea of what a device is capable of.
This applies especially to gaming smartphone reviews, where users could be gaming for different periods of time and using different settings. Generally, the idea is to push the device as far as it can go to set a benchmark; this provides an acceptable metric of performance.
Gaming smartphone benchmark tests are vital to ensuring device integrity when comparing the performance specs of different brands. This helps users make informed decisions before purchases and allows developers to improve their standards in the future. Some key aspects of benchmark testing for gaming smartphones include:
Performance: Testing loading and response times.
Agility: Seeing how fast the device can multitask, switch apps, or handle heavy processing.
Cooling: Seeing how quickly the device heats up once it’s pushed and how hot it can get.
Battery: Testing the battery drainage and charging speeds.
Gameplay: Assessing lag or frame rate drops as the game goes on for longer or the phone heats up.
Endurance: Testing real-life applications and reactions to scratches, bending, water, or dust interference.
Why Do We Use Benchmark Tests?
A benchmark test provides a general overview of your device’s characteristics and provides realistic expectations for speed, stability, and reliability. Generally, a benchmark test is helpful for several reasons, including:
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Validating Performance
When any form of tech excels in benchmark testing, it provides proof of optimal and expected performance for both users and manufacturers.
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Providing a Competitive Advantage
For a brand, a benchmark test provides quantifiable specs that reviewers and potential buyers can use to compare your device to another brand’s device. This gives you an edge if your benchmark tests are consistently positive.
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Improving the User Experience
Users can see devices being put through real-life testing before making a purchase. The tests also help developers improve their designs and systems for future products.
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Enhanced Efficiency
Benchmark tests allow developers to focus energy and resources on specific areas of concern, improving process efficiency.
Now, benchmark tests exist for almost every element of a product, which is why so many benchmark tests exist. However, it’s important to ensure that the test you use is relevant to the device or product you’re testing and relevant to current standards.
Types of Benchmark Tests
We’ve all seen a smartphone review on YouTube or read an article about a new device. During these, there’s always a point where certain benchmark test names get thrown around, and you might not know what these mean or how they should affect your opinion at all. However, generally, contextual clues might help out on whether a specific score is good or bad. If not, we’ve provided a general breakdown of some of the most commonly used smartphone benchmark tests you might run into.
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Geekbench 6: The Geekbench 6 measure is one of the most well-known CPU tests done on smartphones. Your CPU provides a general measure of how fast your device can complete tasks. Through this app, reviewers can assess a phone’s CPU performance by testing both single-core and multi-core performance to provide a score at the end. The single-core performance will reflect how the device handles low-demand tasks, like scrolling through social media or texting. On the other hand, multi-core tests show performance in more CPU-heavy tasks, like editing videos or gameplay.
Sourced from CNET
CNET put the REDMAGIC 10S Pro to the test in a few benchmark tests as well, and it easily got some of the highest benchmark scores they’d seen on an Android phone, steadily beating our REDMAGIC 10 Pro and the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro, which both run on the earlier edition of the Snapdragon Elite processor. The phone even went a step further to take over the $1,300 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, all while costing hundreds of dollars less.
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3DMark: The next test is more focused on GPU performance, which is typically responsible for graphics and visuals in the device. The 3DMark benchmark test uses a variety of metrics to push your device’s GPU to the limit. With Wildlife and Wildlife Extreme tests, extreme graphics, cooling, and enhanced gameplay capacity are often put to the test. A 3DMark Solar Bay is a benchmark ray tracing test designed to measure gaming with ray tracing performance. Solar Bay also simulates a ray-traced 4K game.
Sourced from Phone Arena
Phone Arena’s tests for the 10S Pro also show the device also led the charge with a 3Dmark Extreme score or 7063, beating out the ASUS ROG Phone 9 Pro, the ASUS Zenfone 12 Ultra, and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
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GFXBench: GFXBench is another test focused on GPU performance. The free, cross-platform, cross-API 3D graphics benchmark measures graphics performance, long-term performance stability, render quality, and power consumption.
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AnTuTu Testing: The AnTuTu benchmark is another popular performance testing tool for Android devices. It runs stress tests on various system components, like the CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and UX, to give an overall performance score. Generally, AnTuTu simulates demanding tasks to evaluate how each part of the smartphone performs under load. These include rendering complex 3D graphics, processing large files, switching apps rapidly, loading system UI under pressure, and managing RAM and memory speed. This test is often an easy metric to compare overall device performance.
Sourced from AnTuTu
According to the AnTuTu website, the REDMAGIC 11 Pro was the best-performing flagship phone in 2025, with an average score of 3933699.
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Battery Testing: As the name suggests, this is a typical assessment of a device’s battery performance. Many reviewers have different ways to manage battery tests, but they all center around how quickly the battery is depleted. Battery tests also assess charging speeds and determine how long it will take to reach a full battery.
Sourced from GSM Arena
GSM Arena described the REDMAGIC 11 Pro’s battery as expectedly solid with an Active Use Score of 20:02 hours, which is impressive with long web browsing sessions and video playback times.
REDMAGIC Aces Benchmark Reviews
As a dedicated gaming smartphone developer, REDMAGIC always tries to improve and elevate the standards of our devices throughout the years. Our continued high rankings on most benchmark tests is a testament to this fact.
Mark Knapp for IGN stated that he would run each benchmark several times and average the results to ensure consistency, as many times performance could falter as the phone heats up. He also runs every game at its highest graphics settings with a 60fps frame rate limit, playing for 30 minutes and watching for any hitches in performance or inability to maintain a steady 50-60fps in both the short and long term.
However, beyond the benchmarks and gaming tests, each phone is also evaluated on its everyday operation, the quality of its screen, its wireless connectivity speeds, day-to-day battery life, physical design, special features, and camera quality. Despite these strict parameters, REDMAGIC has consistently come out on top when it comes to testing.
In his 11 Pro review, Knapp noted that our flagship device dominated every benchmark thrown at it. In the Geekbench 6 testing, the 11 Pro offered the fastest multi-core performance seen by far, hitting an 11,248.5-point average, far outstripping the 9,339 points of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and even the 10,100 from the OnePlus 15.
Then, with the 3DMark graphics benchmarks, the 11 Pro continued to excel, leading the pack in Wild Life Extreme, Steel Nomad Light, and Solar Bay tests and averaging a 7.82% lead over the OnePlus 15, a staggering 59.6% lead over the iPhone 17 Pro Max in Wild Life Extreme, and a 36.8% average lead of Snapdragon 8 Elite-fitted Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
Overall, REDMAGIC has shown a distinguished ability to outperform and excel across every area to provide unmatched performance, capabilities, and features that meet the global standards for a leading gaming smartphone brand. We owe this commitment to our fans and community, who drive us to create innovative, intelligent, and benchmark-breaking devices that elevate every moment.
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