ASUS’ ROG Phone 6D Ultimate has an much more elaborate cooling system | Engadget

After the launch of the ROG Phone 6 Pro gaming telephone, some hardcore followers have been left questioning what occurred to the “Ultimate” variant. As it seems, ASUS waited for over two months earlier than unveiling its “one more thing”: the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate. It’s equivalent to the 6 Pro in nearly each means, aside from 4 issues: the brand new “space gray” colour, the fascinating selection of the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ processor (which is what the “D” in “6D” stands for), the change to the quicker LPDDR5X RAM, and the brand new “AeroActive Portal” design for blowing cool air into its inner heat-dissipation fins — I’ll abbreviate this as heatsink from right here onwards.

The AeroActive Portal itself is basically a door flap that opens when the bundled AeroActive Cooler 6 is connected, so {that a} portion of the cool wind produced by the fan — at almost 1,000cc per second — is guided by a wind tunnel and into the heatsink, with sizzling air popping out from the highest slot. The heatsink is, in fact, linked to the generously sized thermal layers masking the logic board and battery cells, in an effort to switch warmth from the parts to the airflow. This is to assist maintain a excessive body charge over an extended interval whereas gaming, in addition to to make sure the telephone remains to be snug to carry.

ASUS claimed that after 60 minutes of Perfdog benchmarking on Genshin Impact at 60Hz in air cooling mode, the ROG Phone 6D reached 36.9°C (98.42°F), which was 3.4°C decrease than the ROG Phone 6 in the identical mode. It seems that the AeroActive Portal does make a notable distinction. Likewise in “Frosty” and “Frozen” modes (with the Peltier thermoelectric cooling chip enabled), and it is value noting that the AeroActive Cooler 6 is the one Peltier-enabled cooler available in the market that does not require extra energy externally — it solely wants that for the extra highly effective “Frozen” mode.

While the AeroActive Portal solely kicks in when an AeroActive Cooler 6 is connected, you’ll be able to open it quickly in settings for cleansing functions. The flap is in any other case shut tight to safeguard the telephone’s IPX4 splash resistance. It additionally has fall detection for robotically retracting the flap, and the stepping motor together with the zirconium alloy hinge are apparently good for over 40,000 flips — each of that are primarily based on the learnings from the now-retired Flip Camera function from the Zenfone sequence.

The 6D Ultimate packs the identical set of key options because the 6 Pro: 165Hz 6.78-inch AMOLED show, 720Hz contact sampling charge, as much as 512GB of storage, 6,000mAh battery, 65W quick charging (42 minutes), Dirac-tuned front-facing stereo audio system, ultrasonic “AirTiggers” and a customizable “ROG Vision” colour show on the again. It’s additionally the identical set of cameras: a 50-megapixel primary digital camera with Sony’s IMX766 sensor, a 13-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera plus a 5-megapixel macro digital camera; and on the entrance, there is a 12-megapixel selfie digital camera with a Sony IMX663 sensor.

For the processor, ASUS made the shock change to MediaTek for its Dimensity 9000+ processor, which apparently scores a tad increased than the ROG Phone 6’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The firm added that whereas the Snapdragon flagship chipset packs a greater GPU, the Dimensity’s CPU is allegedly 10 % extra highly effective (albeit with the identical 3.2GHz most clock velocity), and that is extra essential to most cellular video games. The CPU is complemented by the quicker LPDDR5X RAM as nicely, although this is identical motive as to why that is capped at 16GB as an alternative of 18GB right here.

The ROG Phone 6D Ultimate will likely be obtainable throughout Europe very quickly, with the only real mannequin (16GB RAM with 512GB storage) priced at €1,399 (round $1,400) or £1,199. Again, this premium mannequin comes bundled with an AeroActive Cooler 6. There’s additionally the ROG Phone 6D launching alongside, which is principally the ROG Phone 6 however packing MediaTek’s chipset and LPDDR5X RAM as an alternative (additionally, it is simply an RGB emblem as an alternative of an ROG Vision display on the again; and no AeroActive Portal, in fact). This begins from €949 (round $950) or £799 with the 12GB RAM plus 256GB storage base mannequin.