Wired
OnePlus Ace, as a new “performance trump card” of OnePlus, has both hard-core hardware and a fast, stable and ruthless user experience.
Not only the exclusive customized Dimensity 8100-MAX chip, but also the HyperBoost game frame stabilization engine, the world’s first supercrystalline graphite heat dissipation and other black technologies, which have laid a solid foundation for the status of OnePlus Ace performance ace.
Customized processor, mainstream masterpieces run smoothly
“Customization” is the behavior when it can’t meet the needs of use. The OnePlus Ace is equipped with the exclusive custom chip of Dimensity 8100-MAX for the first time to meet the growing game needs of users.
This custom chip is built on TSMC’s 5nm process, and the CPU energy efficiency is 25% higher than the previous generation. It uses an eight-core CPU architecture and an Arm Mali-G610 MC6 GPU, which can provide players with a smooth, high-frame-rate gaming experience in masterpieces of mobile games, as well as longer battery life.
The author uses OnePlus Ace to experience the four mainstream games on mobile phones. Each game is played for 30 minutes. The game settings are the highest frame rate supported by the device. Let’s take a look at the performance of OnePlus Ace.
After half an hour of game testing, the average frame rate of OnePlus Ace King Glory was 115.3 frames (full frame 120), the average frame rate of Peace Elite was 87.8 frames (full frame 90), and the average frame rate of League of Legends mobile game was 88.1 frames ( Full frame 90), Genshin average frame rate is 48.9 frames (full frame 60).
However, the average frame rate of some games does not represent the actual game frame rate, such as King of Glory, Peace Elite and League of Legends mobile games. According to the frame rate statistics chart, let’s take a look at the frame rates of these three mobile games in the actual game.
An interesting phenomenon can be seen, the actual game frame rate will be higher than the average frame rate. Because there will be unstable factors such as page switching between the two games, the average frame rate cannot represent the actual frame rate during the game.
When OnePlus Ace was released, Louis, President of OnePlus China, also emphasized that the average frame rate is only a reference to judge the smoothness of playing games on a mobile phone, and the focus is on the smoothness of the frame rate.
To achieve a stable frame rate, it is necessary to cross two mountains of cliff-like frame drops and sudden freezes. In the official document diagram of the professional mobile phone performance testing software Perfdog (below), this problem is well illustrated. The sudden freeze is represented by the Jank value, and the frame rate curve can be observed by the cliff-like frame drop.
First, let’s take a look at the frame rate of the King’s Glory, which is full of frame rate and image quality. Excluding the lobby page between the two games, the Drop value of the first game is 11.8, the Jank value is 0, and the average frame rate is 116.4.
The second game has a Drop value of 4.4, a Jank value of 0.7, and an average frame rate of 116. The game lag is not actually perceived.
At the press conference of OnePlus Ace, Louis used the Peace Elite game as an example to show a very smooth game effect, which impressed me deeply.
After actual measurement, under the image setting of 90 frames of smooth image quality, the Jank value and Drop value of the actual game between OnePlus Ace Peace Elite are 0, and the average frame rate is 87.9, which is 0 freeze.
Unfortunately, the author switched to the viewing angle after being eliminated, so the frame rate fluctuated, but the previous 0 freeze was quickly restored, which is consistent with the official publicity effect.
In the League of Legends mobile game, at the highest picture quality and frame rate, OnePlus Ace runs perfectly at nearly 90 frames per game.
The first game has a Drop value of 0 and a Jank value of 0.6. The Drop value of the second game is 0, and the Jank value is 0. Observe the frame rate curve, it is very stable.
Due to the characteristics of multi-scene switching of Genshin Impact, it is not suitable to use it as a reference for frame rate stability.
During the period of experiencing Genshin Impact, OnePlus Ace kept the frame rate very stable on the premise of ensuring that the picture quality does not drop. I would like to give a big compliment here.
From the perspective of overall game performance, OnePlus Ace’s game is very smooth, the frame rate is stable, and there is no frequent freeze or cliff-like frame drop.
Chip-level optimization to improve game lag
So, how does OnePlus Ace achieve smooth and stable game frame rate?
According to the author’s understanding, in order to make OnePlus Ace perform better in games, MTK has equipped a chip expert for each popular game, and adjusted it together with the optimization team of OnePlus. In general, for devices equipped with MTK chips, the chip side will only assign a chip expert to work with the manufacturer’s tuning team to adjust the performance.
Secondly, it is the leading AI architecture of Dimensity 8100-MAX, which provides sufficient computing power for many algorithms of mobile phones.
The chip can be customized so that OnePlus can get a deeper interface, and adjust the algorithm of the chip and the internal power supply system according to the actual needs. Therefore, the HyperBoost game frame stabilization engine can perform CPU and GPU performance scheduling optimization at the chip level.
Due to the reduction of the sudden high load, the stuttering in the game game basically disappears. OnePlus Ace is not satisfied with this, and an additional game independent display chip is added. It is also the first time that a OnePlus mobile phone is equipped with a game independent display chip, which surpasses the treatment of the digital series.
Through the MEMC game frame insertion technology brought by the game’s independent display chip, some games with 60 frames and 90 frames can be upgraded to 90 frames or even 120 frames, which further improves the game experience.
The game processed by MEMC game frame insertion technology not only doubles the frame rate, but also makes the 120Hz game more stable, the picture fluency is higher, and the heat of the fuselage is better controlled.
MEMC game frame insertion technology has been fully adapted to popular mobile games, such as Genshin Impact, QQ Speed, and League of Legends mobile games, and more games are also being adapted.
Playing games for a long time, the body is not hot
The author used a thermal imager to record the actual temperature of the OnePlus Ace, and the room temperature was 26°C. According to the thermal imager, the position of the highest temperature of the fuselage is not the position we often hold.
Good heat dissipation control is inseparable from OnePlus’ strict control of heat dissipation materials. The world’s first supercrystalline graphite heat dissipation is launched on the OnePlus Ace. Compared with ordinary graphite crystal particles, the heat dissipation performance has been improved by nearly 60%.
On the basis of the super-strong graphite process heat dissipation technology, the combination of large-area liquid-cooled VC + high thermal conductivity die-cast aluminum middle frame + large-area graphite sheet has become a powerful weapon for OnePlus Ace to fight against the raging heat wave.
Moreover, the VC heat dissipation area is as high as 4129.8 square millimeters, and the total heat dissipation area is as high as 35198.2 square millimeters, which is the largest in the history of OnePlus. Higher heat dissipation efficiency makes the phone heat up more slowly under high load.
If you are very sensitive to the heat of your phone, there is also a OnePlus 18W freezing point cooling clip for you to buy. It is not only the most powerful of all the cooling clips on sale, but also has three levels of intensity that can be adjusted.
The intelligent Hall switch will automatically operate when the back clip is opened, which is very convenient without manual operation. The straight back design of the OnePlus Ace can fully contact the OnePlus 18W freezing point cooling back clip to achieve rapid cooling.
Newly designed antenna, the delay is no longer annoying
In the case of guaranteed performance and heat dissipation, the signal of the mobile phone is the final factor that determines the game experience. OnePlus Ace’s new e-sports 9 antenna design, holding the signal from all angles will never happen again.
Usually when there are many people playing games, in order not to affect others, we always use Bluetooth headsets. However, the signal of the Bluetooth headset will always interfere with the network signal, causing the sound output of the Bluetooth headset to be delayed, and to a certain extent, the smooth operation of the video game. Combined with the exclusive self-developed network optimization algorithm, OnePlus Ace comprehensively optimizes the chip, RF link, antenna, and communication protocol to solve the problem of signal mutual interference.
Behind the smoothness is an excellent comprehensive experience
The performance, heat dissipation, and network iron triangle are stable, starting from the comprehensive experience.
OnePlus Ace not only has a custom chip, but also has a top-level gaming screen customized to BOE. On the basis of a 120Hz refresh rate, it supports a touch sampling rate of 720Hz and an instantaneous sampling rate of 1000Hz, making it easy to operate at the limit.
The screen display effect of OnePlus Ace is also very good, supporting HDR10+, and customized X-axis linear motor and stereo dual speakers, full of vibration between touch and dynamic sound when playing, which greatly enhances the immersive experience of the game.
In addition to audio-visual aspects, all OnePlus Ace series are equipped with a long-life version of 150W super flash charge as standard. If you have enough time to wait, the overall power of the OnePlus Ace can be fully charged in about 17 minutes.
Epilogue
OnePlus Ace is the first performance trump card launched by OnePlus after it has made it clear that it will focus on the performance track. Customized chips, customized screens, independent display chips, targeted optimization, spread out a heat dissipation area larger than the face, etc., it is destined that this trump card will be a king fried, full of sincerity.
And Louis, President of OnePlus China, also revealed at the OnePlus Ace conference that OnePlus will continue to cooperate with Genshin to optimize the plan, so that the OnePlus Ace Genshin gaming experience is not only high-frame and smooth, but also has infinite possibilities in the future.
Such a sincere performance ace, OnePlus Ace continues to create surprises in price. OnePlus Ace quickly won the double champion of single product sales and sales in OPPO Mall, JD.com, and Tmall on the day it was officially launched.
With the powerful configuration and the starting price of only 2499 yuan, it is normal for the first sales to be popular.