REDMAGIC 11 Pro Global Review

REDMAGIC 11 Pro Display

The REDMAGIC 11 Pro is built around a 6.85-inch AMOLED display using the BOE 10X OLED material. It features a 1.5K resolution of 1216 x 2688 px and supports 10-bit color bit depth with 100% DCI-P3 color space coverage. The screen delivers a peak brightness of 2000 nits and supports a refresh rate of up to 144Hz with a 3000 Hz instantaneous touch sampling rate with up to 2592 Hz PWM dimming. The screen brings a significant upgrade over the previous generations, featuring a Synaptics 3910v touch chip and Magic Touch 3.0 technology for razor-sharp precision in fast games. The Star Shield Eye Protection technology with SGS and TÜV Rheinland low blue light certifications ensures your eyes won't be sore after longer gaming sessions. New Wet-Hand Mode ensures seamless use even in the rain or right after washing your hands, reducing accidental touches for a flawless gaming experience. OLED displays deliver more power to each pixel with every decrease in the white area that has to be displayed on the screen. Hence, the Average Picture Level (APL) is used to better assess the OLED panels' brightness. When smartphone brands advertise their peak brightness levels, it is usually measured at 1% or 2% APL. This means that only 1% or 2% of the entire screen displays white, and the other 98% is black. The APL graph above demonstrates the display brightness of our review unit at two different settings. The red line shows the brightness levels measured in intensive ambient light conditions with activated auto brightness. These are the prerequisites needed to reach peak brightness levels. The green line shows the brightness levels measured in ambient light conditions with inactivated auto brightness. We measure the brightness at ten APL values for a white area, from 10% to 100% of the display. Under normal day ambient light conditions with auto brightness turned off, at 10% APL, the 11 Pro we test shows a peak brightness of 585.158 nits. Under intensive light conditions with auto brightness turned on, at 10% APL, the display reaches a peak brightness of 2000.087 nits. This means that at 1-2% APL, the display will hit more than 2000 nits of peak local brightness, exceeding the officially specified one. At 100% APL (the entire screen displays white) in normal day ambient light conditions and auto brightness turned off, the maximum brightness is 581.269 nits, and this is considered to be the typical brightness of the screen. With auto brightness in intense light conditions, the maximum brightness at 100% APL is 1495.053 nits. With this level, the REDMAGIC 11 Pro takes the top place among all smartphones we have reviewed as the device with the brightest display at 100% APL.

Position	Left	Center	Right
Top	581.374 cd/m2 / 7295 K	581.651 cd/m2 / 7281 K	574.713 cd/m2 / 7322 K
Center	580.575 cd/m2 / 7297 K	581.285 cd/m2 / 7284 K	579.259 cd/m2 / 7324 K
Bottom	570.498 cd/m2 / 7344 K	566.624 cd/m2 / 7353 K	569.355 cd/m2 / 7381 K

The table above clearly demonstrates excellent brightness uniformity and a high brightness level that's very consistent for an OLED display. It depicts nine values taken from nine different points on a fully white screen with a maximized brightness level, in normal light conditions, and auto-brightness turned off. The top one-third has an average brightness of 579.25 nits, the middle one has an average brightness of 580.37 nits, while the bottom one delivers an average brightness of 568.83 nits. The temperature of the white point for all points of reference is around the pleasant 7300 K level.

Below, we publish our display measurements taken in normal light conditions with switched-off auto-brightness in the four available color modes. You can also check out the sub-pixel arrangement photo we took of the display. It seems like the BOE X10 panel is a customized version of the BOE Q9+ AMOLED panel, as it shows the same sub-pixel structure and almost identical performance to the display of the REDMAGIC 10S Pro. The Q9+ OLED family of BOE displays employs BOE's proprietary Blue Diamond subpixel architecture with an optimized underlying logic structure of pixel display, which greatly reduces the graininess of AMOLED screens. The close-up photo of the sub-pixel structure is identical to that of Samsung's Diamond PenTile sub-pixel architecture; however, the red pixels on BOE's display panel have a brighter center that makes it look orange instead of red.

Colorful Mode

The Colorful Mode is the default one. It has a very wide color space coverage, which should correspond to 100% DCI-P3 coverage. The colors look very saturated when this mode is on. The temperature of the white point is in the 7100-7200 K range.

Standard Color Mode

In the Standard Color Mode, the CIE diagram shows that the display has a wide color space coverage that's a bit narrower than the one from the Colorful Mode, i.e. corresponding to the 100% Adobe RGB coverage. As a result, the majority of dark blue, magenta, and pink hues are exact, while the light blue, green, yellow, orange, and some red hues are punchier. The color temperature gravitates around the 6500-6700 K level.

Soft Color Mode

The Soft Color Mode is for everyone looking for almost perfect 100% sRGB color space coverage with colors appearing as natural as possible. It does not accurately cover some of the red hues but this cannot be perceived by the eyes. The temperature of the white point gravitates around the same 6500-6700 K range as in the previous color mode.

Vivid Mode

The Vivid Mode shows a color space coverage that's identical to that of the Standard Color Mode. Hence, colors will look punchy for the most part. However, the temperature of the white point is higher, in the 7000-7200 K range.