$1,700 liquid-cooled phone can run GTA V at up to 100 FPS, Red Dead 2 at 50+ FPS via emulation — Redmagic 11 Pro packs 24 GB of RAM and pulls more than 40W at peak load

(Image credit: ETA Prime on YouTube) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter PC emulation on Android has come a long way from the days of its inception. Today, we have hardware that can natively run a lot of games through translation layers, all while delivering reasonable frame rates. And there is no better device to show this progress than the Redmagic 11 Pro Golden Saga Edition — the most powerful Android phone in the world, and it can play AAA PC games better than a Steam Deck. PC Game Emulation On Android Phone Is INSANE! - YouTube Watch On The video above from ETA Prime showcases a bunch of games running inside GameHub, a Windows emulator that translates x86 code into Arm. GameHub actually started as just mapping software for GameSir's controllers, but has since transformed into a full-blown emulator that comes baked into Redmagic devices. It has native integration with Steam, so all your save files are synced on mobile, just like on a PC. The phone in question is a special edition of the Redmagic 11 Pro that features 24 GB of RAM and upgraded internals for slightly better cooling. The rest of the specs are identical between the regular model and this Golden Saga Edition, such as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, the 6.9-inch OLED display, and the 7,500 mAh battery. There's 1 TB of storage onboard, and the phone features liquid cooling, along with a fan. Article continues below (Image credit: Redmagic) Coming back to the actual performance, ETA Prime ran Red Dead Redemption 2 at 720p with low settings and no upscaling. The game ran at above 50 FPS even in outdoor areas, and it was locked at 60 indoors, but drops down to the 40s at higher render distances in the open world. This was in the "Rise" performance mode, which is one tier below the maxed-out "Diablo" mode, and the phone was docked while playing. Enabling the Diablo profile, the frame rate jumped from the low 40s to the low 50s, but the power draw also went up to 40W. We even saw an insane peak of 45W; that's laptop territory, and the YouTuber reiterated it's not thermally sustainable, even with a cooler on the back. Throughout the test, RDR2 consumed around 20 GB of RAM, so the extra memory pool is certainly worth it if you want to run AAA games. (Image credit: ETA Prime on YouTube) ETA Prime also tested GTA V, and it ran at above 70 FPS, while reaching 100 FPS in indoor scenes. It's crazy to think that just a few years ago, something like this would still be a