moment, we turn our attention to the vanilla ROG Phone 6D- thenon-Ultimate model. Just like its 6D Ultimate stock, it’s grounded on the Dimensity 9000 chipset. Unlike it, still, it lacks the AeroActive gate, which means that, at the veritably least, there are some thermal operation differences between the two. Since this and the absence of a ROG Vision display on the reverse of the ROG Phone 6D are the only differences to note between the vanilla and the Ultimate, we will not be doing a full review. It would be veritably spare, to say the least. What we will be doing, still, is benchmarking the ROG Phone 6D and testing its thermal throttling geste to see how it compares to its stock, which would answer the topic of which is the best-performing ROG Telephone 6.
Synthetic marks
Before we get into standard figures, some fresh word is in order. The ROG Phone 6D unit we’ve for testing is the special Batman edition. Just like its Ultimate stock, it has an basically overclocked MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset. druggies get a single primary Cortex- X2 core, clocked at over to3.35 GHz rather of the dereliction3.2 GHz. The three Cortex- A710 cores are also overclocked to3.20 GHz rather of their dereliction2.85 GHz. The remaining four” small” Cortex- A510 cores are left at their dereliction1.8 GHz, which makes sense seeing how they’re meant for effectiveness rather of performance.
In terms of GPU, the ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate are both rocking the Mali- G710 MC10 with no citation of an overclock of any kind. The chipset is paired with 256 GB of UFS3.1 storehouse and up to 16 GB of RAM, which sounds kind of strange at first, given the ROG Phone 6 Pro offers up to 18 GB of RAM. still, the ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate use the newer LPDDR5X RAM, which presently only goes to 16 GB modules, which explains the decision. Our particular Batman unit, still, isn’t the highest- league model, so it has 12 GB of RAM at its disposal.
We will be the first to admit that standard scores from the ROG Phone 6D are predictable, but we will not hear us complain about thickness compared to the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate.
CPU performance from the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 is easily better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 inside the ROG Phone 6 Pro- especially in themulti-core test, where the former got further than 30 advanced performance in the dereliction Dynamic mode.
In the single- core part of the test, the ROG Phone 6 Pro took the lead untilX-Mode was actuated. Obviously, Asus has managed to tune theX-Mode on the Dimensity 9000 veritably well.
AnTuTu seems to offer a bit further of a” spread” in scores at first regard, but once you get down to it, the dissonances are still well within the periphery of blunder from one race to another, and the ROG Mobile 6D and 6D Extreme exchange blows the three unique modes. The ROG Phone 6 scores unexpectedly low in the dereliction Dynamic mode but gains back its stage once X Mode is engaged.
supposedly, the 12 GB of RAM in the ROG Phone 6D didn’t prove to be a major disadvantage in AnTuTu.
Moving on to graphical marks, we find another batch of constantly analogous scores. Again, the ROG Phone 6 scores at the bottom of both GFX Aztek tests but it gets back on track as soon as X Mode is actuated.
As we move lower in the standard mound, we get to less delicate tests that use aged graphical API performances. It’s then that we notice that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1- powered ROG Phone 6 Pro scores advanced than its MediaTek siblings.
The differences are hardly significant, but it does feel like Qualcomm’s chip is better optimized for aged OpenGL ES performances, for what that is worth.
In any case, we’re snappily starting to get figures well in excess of 100 fps, which is hard to complain about in these synthetic and unrealistically delicate loads. Any ultramodern game machine will be a lot more flexible when it comes to its picture to insure high frame rates.
Plus, it hardly comes as a surprise that what are arguably some of, if not the stylish, gaming phones presently around can render a lot of frames and bite through virtually any task you throw at them.
Eventually, the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme test paints the same picture as the last two tests- giving the nod to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Overall, the two MediaTek Dimensity 9000 phones- the ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate- catch the palm in the performance section of the test. Asus and Mediatek have worked effectively tuning the MediaTek chipset. The ROG Phone 6D is no couch potato indeed though it’s got’ only’ 12 GB of RAM. We will be keeping an eye on it in the thermal- throttling section of our test to see if it can hold up as well as the 6D Ultimate and its AeroActive Portal..
Thermal- throttling geste
In the alternate part of our test, we are taking a look at the thermal throttling geste of the three ROG 6 phones during an hour-long run of the aptly named CPU strangling standard as well as a 20 min run of 3D Mark’s Wild Life Extreme test, which is further GPU- ferocious as it circles Vulkan1.1- grounded 3D tests offscreen with a resolution of 1440p.
Going into the test, we anticipated the ROG Phone 6 Pro to run the coolest with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset.
The 6D Ultimate AeroActive Portal only activates once you attach the AeroActive cooler on the reverse of the phone, which is also when you’re allowed to spark the X Mode mode.
So in the dereliction Dynamic mode and in the lower X Mode, we anticipated the two 6D phones to perform also.
Dynamic mode
We start with the ROG Phone 6D in the dereliction Dynamic mode. The vanilla 6D displayed the lowest performance throttling of the three phones, but the other two started with much advanced peak performance figures with the 6 Pro leading the pack. This geste leads to the 6 Pro and 6D Ultimate having lower average performance than the 6D over the 1h test runtime.
As you see, the 6D and 6D Ultimate feel to be tuned else. We are also witnessing a surprising variation from what we saw in the CPU- bound Geekbench affect, where the two 6D phones scored identically.
The 3DMark test paints the same picture, although there’s much lower difference in the performance. The ROG Phone 6 Pro leads the pack in 3DMark’s test anyhow of the performance mode.
X Mode without the AeroActive Cooler attached
Continuing on toward X Mode without the AeroActive cooler appended.
Then, we see another great performance from the vanilla ROG Phone 6D. It indeed had the loftiest peak performance of the three phones in the CPU strangling test.
The winner with X Mode ON, still, was the ROG Phone 6 Pro scoring the loftiest Average score and the loftiest Minimum performance score in the CPU strangling test. It also had the loftiest score in the 3D Mark and the least throttling among the three bias.
The ROG 6 Extreme had the biggest dunk in execution and a substantially more rugged exhibition line. presumably not jagged enough to really be felt as stuttering in real life, but it’s still a specially different geste from the other two phones.
X Mode with the AeroActive Cooler 6 attached
Eventually, we’ve to look at the ROG Phones in their top performance state- X Mode with an attached AeroActive Cooler 6 going at full blast, which Asus calls” firmed” mode. This is meant to give the chipset and the cooling setup the stylish chance to impress.
The winner then’s yet again the ROG Phone 6 Pro with the loftiest scores across the board- its maximum, avg, and min scores are better than what the 6D Ultimate could assemble, it’s additionally the top gadget in 3D Imprint’s pressure test.
The ROG Phone 6D Ultimate scores the smallest though the periphery isn’t as large as in the former test in X Mode. Overall, it’s a solid caching, but we’re a bit surprised it could not beat the vanilla 6D despite the erected- in AeroActive Portal, which should ameliorate the cooling in proposition.
The ROG Phone 6D surely does well in this round of testing. It did not have the top peak performance in the CPU strangling test( by a really small periphery), but it bested the 6D Ultimate with its average and minimal scores, which are the bones that count in a thermal- throttling test like this bone .
The ROG Phone 6D also performed identically to the 6D Ultimate in the 3D Mark stress test- both in terms of scores, as well as in stability indeed though it lacks the Aeroactive Portal of the more precious model.
Conclusion
In performance marks, the ROG Phone 6D proved to have identical performance to the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate. After all, both phones partake nearly the same tackle, with the Asus- tuned MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset at the helm.
They also have better standard scores than the ROG Phone 6 Pro, except for the aged OpenGL marks, where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 takes back its lead.
But perhaps the biggest surprise in this relative test was that when it comes to thermal throttling geste , the vanilla 6D performed more or inversely good as the ROG Phone 6D Ultimate in all three performance modes. That, yet it stood its ground against the 6 Expert.
still, it seems that the Mediatek chips are more prone to heating than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 when pushed harder as the Snapdragon chipset kept its cool in the GPU Stress test.
Verdict
As we reach the end of this relative test, it’s time to come up with averdict.However, we would recommend getting the vanilla ROG Phone 6D, If we had to choose a single device out of the three. It only comes in 12GB/ 256 GB configuration but we did not find the 12 GB RAM to be a tailback in any of the marks. It also does not have a screen on its back, but the ROG Phone 6 Pro and 6D Ultimate will bring you about 30 further without furnishing any meaningful increase in performance.
The two 6D models are still onpre-order, but if you aren’t in a hurry with your purchase, we would say the ROG Phone 6D is the cheapest and most sensible entry in the ROG Phone 6 series.