What makes OnePlus 11R 5G The Best Gaming Flagship For Gamers

Whenever a device maker calls its smartphone a ¡®flagship¡¯, the understanding is that it is loaded with the best hardware and that it is truly uncompromising.

But many fail to understand that just cramming the faster processor/hardware without necessary optimisations does more harm than good. And for a gamer who is simply looking for a smooth gaming experience, the phone fails to do just that.

But OnePlus recently rolled out the OnePlus 11R 5G, with its flagship-grade hardware tries to do this with an entirely different approach -- an approach catered specially for gamers -- and the end result is nothing I¡¯ve experienced in a flagship smartphone before.

As a gamer, I prefer playing Genshin Impact, not just because the game is probably one of the most fun and engrossing RPGs of all time, but also because it looks almost as good as a console or a PC game from the current generation.

This also means that the game is fairly demanding, especially when you crank its settings to the max. However, the OnePlus 11R 5G did this rather effortlessly, to say the least.

The perfect display for smartphone gaming

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OnePlus 11R 5G sports a 6.7-inch 120Hz Super Fluid Display, sporting a resolution of 2772 by 1240 pixels.

The screen is pretty sharp with a pixel ratio of 450 PPI. The 6.7-inch display size is perfect to absorb the beautiful open world of Genshin Impact. The colours truly pop, making the experience undeniably engrossing. The 120Hz refresh rate keeps the whole experience appear butter smooth too.

The OLED panel sports HDR10+ certification as well as 100 percent DCI P3 colour gamut support, which brings out the brightest contrast in the most accurate manner, possible.

However, what truly makes this display perfect for gaming is its range of brightness. It has been certified with SGS Low Blue Light Ex Certification which means your late-night gaming sessions won¡¯t really affect your eyesight as other phones would. However, it is also one of the brightest Android smartphones out there with a 1450 nits peak brightness, which means more viewable outdoor gaming sessions.

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Mobile Platform is Slick

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The octa-core Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Mobile platform took a massive leap from its predecessor in performance and overall battery optimisations. And this, even after a year, is by far one of the most powerful hardware you could find on an Android smartphone.

It takes on Genshin Impact like a pro, mostly thanks to the Adreno 730 GPU that lets the game¡¯s true aesthetic shine beautifully. All while the game is running butter smooth at all times.

3D Cooling System keeping the experience chill

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Gaming on the smartphone is only fun until the device remains cool under loads. Playing Genshin Impact can be very stressful on the hardware and that means more heat. However, OnePlus has cleverly crafted a heat-dissipation system dubbed Cryo-velocity VC, which is crafted along with a Super Graphite structure.

What these two enable is the efficient passing of heat so that the phone is never uncomfortable to hold. What also works in tandem is the newest Change Material that has been crafted using graphene slice and paraffin, which actually stores instant heat and gradually releases it, making the phone¡¯s heat-up not happen instantly.

This overall enables for a far cooler gaming experience than the competition, without the need for external fans or cooling vents. I legit was able to play for hours at a stretch without really feeling uncomfortable, even during outdoor game sessions in warm Delhi afternoons, and that¡¯s truly saying something.

16GB of LPDDR5X RAM with RAM-Vita

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Let¡¯s face it. For a gamer, no amount of RAM is enough. And this is even truer for a smartphone gamer, where there are so many tasks that are going on in the background, that the more ram, the better the multitasking experience.

OnePlus 11R 5G comes with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X memory. But OnePlus has gone a step further and included a server-level memory management system. This enables efficient multitasking without causing any compromises on the gaming experience.

I was playing Genshin Impact while also simultaneously watching a live stream of another gamer on Twitch (in Picture-In-Picture view) and the game ran butter smooth, without any jitters or frame drops. How cool is that?

All tied together with the HyperBoost Gaming Engine

While Genshin Impact is a fun game to spend hours on leisurely, the entire experience is a lot different in competitive titles. Games like Call of Duty: Mobile where performance, framerate, and network connectivity all need to be in a proper flow. Even a single glitch could be a difference between life and death.

For such gaming sessions, I really enjoyed OnePlus¡¯s HyperBoost Gaming Engine. I feel this is by far one of the best gaming modes on an Android smartphone to date. It makes use of a General Performance Adapter 4.0 (GPA4.0) to squeeze the frame rate from fluctuating when enabled.

This results in far more stable GPU processing, lower latency, and instantaneous responsiveness. What¡¯s more, is that the GPA4.0 actually improves power efficiency by 5 percent to allow more gameplay time.