A cost-effective and quality choice for gamers? OnePlus 9R gaming experience

Recently, mobile phone manufacturers have put a lot of effort into preparing for their promotions, especially the spokespersons who have been carefully selected, but this time the mobile phone industry has ushered in a unique spokesperson image, the Giant of Light Di Ultraman Ga has come to be the spokesperson for mobile phones! The Ultraman series is a work that has influenced the childhood of countless people, and its image has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, the Giant of Light’s endorsement of OnePlus 9R is indeed very eye-catching, so this time we will take a look at the OnePlus 9R experience.

The author learned from the official website that the first two large pages of the OnePlus 9R product overview page are to convey to consumers that this phone has made great efforts in gaming, although it does not claim that the OnePlus 9R It is a gaming phone, but it can be seen that OnePlus wants to tell consumers that the gaming experience of OnePlus 9R will also be very good.

This reminds me that thanks to the rapid development of the mobile game market, many manufacturers have launched their own game phones. However, game phones usually pay too much attention to the gaming experience, and what follows is the gaming experience. With the decline in external experience, as a gamer, must you only consider gaming phones?

The official promotion of OnePlus 9R emphasizes the gaming experience while also attaching great importance to the quality of the phone itself. From the parameter point of view, OnePlus 9R is equipped with the Snapdragon 870 processor and does not use the Snapdragon 888 The platform may have certain shortcomings due to its power consumption. The 870 may be a better choice. The running memory is 8GB/12GB and the storage memory is 128GB/256GB. The screen refresh rate is as high as 120hz and the sampling rate is as high as 240hz. It looks like the same platform. Plus 9R seems to have the potential to combine gaming experience with mobile phone quality. Is this really the case? In order to get the answer to the question, the author conducted some experience with this mobile phone.

Appearance and screen

The weight of the OnePlus 9R is less than 190g, and the thickest part is only 8.4mm. There is still a classic three-stage silent vibration ring mode switch on the side. The appearance of the switch also continues the fashionable and simple style of OnePlus mobile phones with a bit of business atmosphere. The style is pragmatic and low-key, and a certain sense of quality is reflected in many places.

The screen is still the main selling point of OnePlus 9R. It uses a flexible straight screen that is said to have the best display effect in the industry. The flexible straight screen technology makes it almost impossible to see the black edges on the front screen of the phone, and the touch screen area The design of the straight screen is in line with people's intuitive control, which can fundamentally overcome the problem of accidentally touching the game caused by the curved screen. At the same time, the mobile phone screen will be color calibrated at the factory, and the color accuracy restoration will be more accurate. The screen also supports HDR10 and SGS low blue light. Eye protection certification, 8192 levels of brightness adjustment.

Indeed, at first glance, I will feel that the screen looks very good, the colors are relatively full and gorgeous, but it does not have the eye-catching feeling of ordinary AMOLED screens at all.

In terms of appearance, OnePlus 9R still continues OnePlus’ low-key style, and the screen does not save costs. It still uses Samsung’s E3 luminous material AMOLED screen.

Vibration experience

Talking about the quality of mobile phones, the vibration motor used in the mobile phone itself has attracted more and more attention from consumers, and now many games have begun to make vibration effects. Many new attempts have been made, such as Peace Elite has launched a trial version of the vibration system, so a good vibration experience is no longer just one of the requirements for quality mobile phones, but also a new rigid demand for gamers.

OnePlus official also happens to emphasize the vibration motor of OnePlus 9R, so next we will experience the vibration experience of OnePlus 9R.

OnePlus 9R is packed with the Haptic vibration motor, the largest X-axis vibration motor in OnePlus history. According to official claims, the motor feedback speed is at the millisecond level, and the system can also enable 4D vibration for games. Function, Honor of Kings has also adapted to more than ten scenes. The author has actually experienced many mobile phones with linear vibration motors, but in fact, there are really only a few mobile phones that have left a deep impression on me.

Because although the motor hardware used by everyone is good, different manufacturers have different adjustments to the motor. OnePlus 9R can say that the motor on the hardware is very good, but if the official It would be a pity if its tuning is average, so I focused on experiencing the vibration experience of OnePlus 9R, and I also have high expectations.

The author used various firearms at the Peace Elite’s special training island shooting range to experience the vibration. The vibration effects of different weapons are indeed different. For example, when using a bolt sniper, First, give a vibration feedback at the moment of shooting, and the vibration feedback of the pull bolt will follow. Based on this vibration feedback, you can know that the sniper rifle can fire the second shot at this time, and the vibration feedback when changing bullets will also be It is much clearer and cleaner than ordinary vibrating mobile phones.

At the same time, the input method that comes with the system is also well adapted to the vibration motor. It can also turn on the simulated keyboard mode and add sound effects that imitate the physical keyboard trigger, so the typing experience is indeed better than that of ordinary motor phones. It's much better, adding a certain sense of quality to the OnePlus 9R.

In short, the experience of the vibration motor on the OnePlus 9R is beyond my expectation, because there are actually more and more mobile phones using linear vibration motors, and manufacturers will work very hard. to promote the vibration feedback experience of their motors, but every time I actually use it, I always feel that the manufacturer’s tuning is a waste of good motors. This is reflected in the fact that most of them cannot make vibrations that I can immediately perceive for different scenarios. There is a sense of differentiation, and the feedback is slow and heavy. But the tuning of this motor on OnePlus 9R really surprised me. I am even willing to use it to "decompress", especially the feedback vibration level of the backspace key on the input method is my favorite tuning level. .

Benchmarks and gaming performance

In terms of hardware parameters, the configuration parameters of OnePlus 9R and the gaming experience should be excellent and satisfactory. But it’s not like we haven’t seen some “negatively optimized” mobile phone products so far, so we still need to enter the actual game testing session to know the actual performance of OnePlus 9R.

In order to better experience the gaming performance of OnePlus 9R, I applied the settings in the picture above to each tested game to ensure that the phone's performance is fully activated when the game is running.

In the image settings of King of Glory, ultra-high frame rate, ultra-high resolution, and anti-aliasing are turned on, the overall picture quality is turned to the extreme, and dynamic resolution is turned off.

The author turned on the screen recording function that comes with the phone and recorded 1080P video. However, the frame rate of small-scale team battles in the game surprisingly did not change much.

As can be seen from the frame rate curve, the average frame rate of Honor of Kings in the best picture is 80.7. As the play time changes, the frame rate does not drop too obviously. Considering the actual play time, if With the default quality options, frame rates may be smoother.

Then there is the recently discussed mobile game Genshin Impact. The default image quality option is used here, but the frame rate is set to 60.

Here we chose the scene effect and monster skill special effects to test the explosive tree battle scene, which is more stressful for the opponent. It is still recorded in 1080P that comes with the system. The control is relatively smooth, and the most important thing is that there is no obvious lag, so the reaction and operation of the elderly author can also avoid the BOSS's skill attacks. The overall control experience is very consistent with the performance of this configuration.

The frame rate test curve is very close to my control experience. Genshin Impact is currently a relatively performance-hungry game for mobile phones. As you can see from the curve in the figure, the game tests the performance of the mobile phone very much when loading scenes, switching maps and other interfaces, and in large-scale battle scenes, including the performance of the mobile phone. In terms of read and write performance, the flash memory specification of OnePlus 9R is UFS3.0, so the performance of OnePlus 9R in these scenarios is still up to standard. Genshin Impact also has an average frame rate of 51.8 frames. Excluding battle scenes, the game can even reach a maximum of 55 frames.

Next is the chicken-fighting game Peace Elite that many people like to play. The game has recently been updated with many picture options. OnePlus 9R can enable ultra-high definition and extreme frame rate picture settings.

It can be seen that the average frame rate in the Peace Elite team competition mode is 58.7 frames. Some interface loading scenes require instantaneous computing performance and the frame rate in ultra-intense battle scenes will decrease slightly. In other cases, The number of frames downloaded is relatively stable.

In terms of flash memory read and write speed, random read and write speeds are more than 200 megabytes per second, which is in line with UFS3.0 standards.

In the latest benchmark test of the latest version of AnTuTu, we conducted the benchmark test at room temperature of 26°C, and the score reached 711,141 points. Among them, in the CPU test, which has a great impact on mainstream games The running score is close to 200,000 points, and other running scores are also in the first echelon of the Android camp, in line with the performance of the Snapdragon 870 platform.

System experience

OnePlus 9R is equipped with the new Color OS 11.2 system, and the underlying Android version is also the latest 11 version. The pre-installed is not Hydrogen OS but Color OS, which can be said to be "hydrogen knot", which may be a pity for users who like Hydrogen OS very much. I used to like Hydrogen OS very much, because it is one of the very few domestic Android systems that retains a large number of native design styles, and the whole system is very simple. But after using it for a period of time, I found that this system actually brought me Lots of little surprises.

In addition to the common functions of high-performance release, notification text message and call blocking, brightness lock, etc., the game space function that comes with the mobile phone also has intelligent lightning startup, 4D vibration, and ultra-realistic enhanced painting. Quality, game filters, game voice changing and other innovative features that I have not seen in other mobile phone systems.

Smart Lightning uses the artificial intelligence of OnePlus 9R to determine frequently played game apps, and then resides in a game background that consumes less resources, so that the game can be hot-started, so it can quickly increase the speed of starting the game. . The author mainly tested Honor of Kings. Honor of Kings can skip the startup screen and open the game lobby. However, this function requires the game to be resident in the running memory. Although it will not increase the power consumption, if you want to make better use of this function, it is recommended to buy a large memory version.

Ultra-realistic game quality is very useful in games like Peace Elite. It can improve picture details and capture enemies more clearly. In the actual game, there were no excessive frame drops due to turning on this option. The picture performance remains smooth. However, since the color performance of the game screen will be relatively rich, I think this function is very suitable for competitive competition but it is not recommended for everyone to use it for a long time.

The game filter function is similar to the game filter function that comes with the graphics card on the computer platform. By adjusting the game screen, it improves the player's recognition speed and accuracy of game content. The author It is considered that this function is the same as the ultra-reality enhanced image quality and is not suitable for long-term use. The built-in filters are not suitable for games like Honor of Kings, so I hope that if the official has the opportunity in the future, they can launch a filter customization function, so that players can have one more choice and DIY their favorite game filters.

When we play games, we usually communicate via voice with friends or wild teammates to quickly exchange real-time battlefield information. This feature can add to the fun of the game to a certain extent. The system also has a real-time voice changer function. In fact, I was not interested in this function before I learned about it, because I have used many similar software. They can also realize the function of players changing their voices in the game, but these software only It can stay at the software level, so there will be various compatibility issues or usage issues. The most common one is delay. If the delay is too high, the voice changing function will have almost no usability.

But I was quite surprised by the voice change that comes with the system. The voice change delay is almost imperceptible, and the effect is rich and interesting, and it is completely usable.

After analysis, the author learned that Color OS does game voice changing at the system level. The response speed of system-level software is absolutely unachievable by ordinary software, so the effect will be much better than ordinary software.

Disadvantages

Based on the above-mentioned many advantages, more importantly, the price of OnePlus 9R is only 2,999 yuan, but with such a low price, it is foreseeable that OnePlus 9R There is bound to be room for compromise.

Currently there is no DC dimming function.

DC dimming is a small function that can relieve human eye fatigue, but it is currently not available for use on the OnePlus 9R. Fortunately, the screen quality of the OnePlus 9R itself is quite excellent, and the level of adjustment is also very good. The objective data strobe is 480, so it will not tire your eyes at all. It can already bring a comfortable viewing and use experience. It can be said that the OnePlus 9R without DC dimming is also very comfortable to watch, and there is no serious rainbow like other A screens. Pattern. At the same time, DC dimming will reduce the display effect to a certain extent, which will indeed waste such a good screen like the OnePlus 9R, and DC dimming may be reopened in a system update.

Summary

Looking at the current mobile phone market of 2,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan, with the efforts of major mobile phone manufacturers, although the price of 5G chips is not low, the current choices are actually very Rich, but if you require a low-key appearance, a sense of quality, and powerful gaming performance, OnePlus 9R is a very good choice. Among other mobile phones in the same price range, gaming phones have better performance, and there are many levels of compromise. However, for mobile phones with a sense of quality, the performance configuration used will be somewhat castrated.

At first I wasn’t too interested in this low-key-looking mobile phone, but after some experience, the gaming experience it brought left a very deep impression on me. I didn’t expect this. Underneath the appearance, there is still a core that makes gaming very enjoyable. No wonder OnePlus 9R found Tiga to endorse it. "Daku" who is neither strong nor smart in everyone's eyes actually inherited the genes of a super ancient warrior and can transform into Ultraman Tiga. And OnePlus 9R also has big... The shadow of Gu and Tiga.

Although OnePlus 9R also has some shortcomings, these shortcomings are outweighed by its many advantages. After all, in this price range, it is really difficult to have a perfect mobile phone, and these shortcomings are not covered up. The mobile phone exudes a sense of quality, so I admire the product manager of OnePlus 9R for spending the cost where it should be spent, and the knife skills can be said to be very precise.

Nowadays, OnePlus 9R also has a 2-year official warranty service. It can be said that OnePlus has indeed carefully created a sense of quality for this 3,000 yuan mobile phone. After all, service is also a point to consider when buying a mobile phone. , OnePlus 9R’s warranty service is also a plus for the phone. If you really love playing mobile games, but have certain requirements for the quality and appearance of your mobile phone, and your budget is relatively small, OnePlus 9R should be a good choice for you.