Asus ROG Phone II is a terminal that equips the 2.96GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor which, as we said, is able to reproduce gaming experiences on the smartphone with a quality that can be matched to the console. Furthermore, such a powerful processor is required by the ROG Phone II display, which updates at a frequency of 120 Hz. The latter allows you to enjoy more fluent and (even by simply navigating the phone menus) gaming experiences, and, updating faster than a normal display, it reproduces the player’s interaction more faithfully, increasing its performance.
To understand what the added value of the 120 Hz game could be, we recorded Shadowgun Legends running on Asus ROG Phone II. We have compared this flow of images with a recording always made on ROG Phone II, but at 60 Hz, and then on a Samsung Galaxy S8, still at 60 Hz. As you can see, the differences are visible.
The images were recorded with a 96 frame per second camera, and then slowed by 50%. We used this approach to make the differences as explicit as possible but, as the most experienced gamer knows, the difference is also sensitive during the actual gameplay: with a higher refresh rate you improve the performance and enjoy a fluidity and greater image strength, without compromises due to tearing or stuttering.
Asus ROG Phone II boasts a beautiful AMOLED screen with 1ms of latency and Delta-E declared below 1, also characterized by a sampling rate of 240Hz for touch inputs and a touch latency of 49ms to make high reactivity gaming possible.
Shadowgun Legends and War Games, one already available and the other arriving in the final release on February 12th, are the first two video games specially optimized for ROG Phone II. Shadowgun Legends in the central hub remains anchored at 60 fps, while going on a mission it takes advantage of the full computing capacity of Rog Phone II: it runs, therefore, at 120 fps using the high refresh rate of this display. War Games is instead designed to always run at 120 fps with a competitive multiplayer game nature. Obviously, note that the smartphone hardware must be able to process 120 frames per second in order to benefit from a display that updates to 120 Hz. For this purpose, you need a performance hardware such as that used by Asus within this terminal. At the same time, the game must be developed in such a way as to guarantee such a high frame rate.
In addition to the two Shadowguns, many other games run at 120 frames per second on Asus ROG PHone II, including Deus Ex Go, Don’t Starve, Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, Hitman Go, Injustice 2, Lara Croft Go, Minecraft, Rayman Adventures, Real Racing 3, The Wolf Among Us and Vainglory.
