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HTC One X CPU Overclocking???

Can someone tell me where I can find over-clock able kernel for my international One X? And what is the biggest clock speed on ONE X?

At present faux kernel can oc depending on what variant CPU you have but max at 1.6ghz
I have a v2 and can do 1.55 quad fine
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Eternity Project has an OC version up to 1.7GHz single core and 1.6GHz quad core

ZeroInfinity said:
Eternity Project has an OC version up to 1.7GHz single core and 1.6GHz quad core
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Can you post link?

stefan063 said:
Can you post link?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1640532
Be careful of OC, always remember, not all chips are made equal

About last Repacked Eternity Project for ARHD 9.x.x
Hello,
I try the Last repacked eternity project kernel for ARHD 9.x.x the Kernel: 3.4 v0.38 (Overclocked) at :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654982
But the module file was repacked for CMW ROM.
Who find good repacked module corresponding to this kernel ?
Thank you for jour help.

Underclock
As this thread is about setting CPU speeds, can somebody help me with my problem as no one is responding?
Its about underclocking..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1868011
Thanks in advance!

how does the OC work? i mean then running all our core it is limited to 1.2 ghz and is 1.5 on a single core.
does that men all cores run at the OC value or just the single core?
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I suggest you flash faux's kernel.
It can oc to 1.6GHZ for most user~
and it support s2W!

I expect many users will be aware of this information, but just in case you aren't.
Anyone overclocking should be aware that this will usually lead to higher power consumption which leads to more heat produced and lower battery life.
Especially if it is necessary to overvolt to acheive higher clock frequencies with stability.
Power consumption is proportional to Voltage squared, so small increases in core coltage can result in larger increases in power consumption than mught be thought.
Needless to say this can have negative impacts on battery discharge time and overall life (due to higher temperatures).
Plus there may be some throttling back of frequency if high temperatures are reached. Also possible that frequency may be reduced to 1Ghz maximum when battery voltage is low (i.e when discharged)
Hope this is helpful (first post here)

paul_59 said:
I expect many users will be aware of this information, but just in case you aren't.
Anyone overclocking should be aware that this will usually lead to higher power consumption which leads to more heat produced and lower battery life.
Especially if it is necessary to overvolt to acheive higher clock frequencies with stability.
Power consumption is proportional to Voltage squared, so small increases in core coltage can result in larger increases in power consumption than mught be thought.
Needless to say this can have negative impacts on battery discharge time and overall life (due to higher temperatures).
Plus there may be some throttling back of frequency if high temperatures are reached. Also possible that frequency may be reduced to 1Ghz maximum when battery voltage is low (i.e when discharged)
Hope this is helpful (first post here)
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CPU throttle starts at 85c with thermal TJ-max of 99c.
also there is many debates about this, higher speed need more power which drains battery, but that said it means work gets faster meaning it can idle faster saving power, same the other side slower speeds save power but take longer to get work done using more power.
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stefan063 said:
Can someone tell me where I can find over-clock able kernel for my international One X? And what is the biggest clock speed on ONE X?
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Go to Faux123 and read the opening post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647993
it will teach you about Tegra 3 variants.
Flash Faux123 latest kernel to know what variant you have.
You can have 1.5ghz quadcore minimum, except if you have the poor variant0 of the Tegra 3, and 1.6ghz quadcore max if you have variant 3
So the overclocking you can achieve depends on your Tegra 3 variant, whatever the kernel, don't trust the figures in kernel threads titles, they just give the max if you have variant 3. And the majority of people have variant 1 so limited to 1.5ghz quadcore and there's nothing to do about it, no future kernel can change the way your CPU was manufactured.
Just, SetCPU can display 1.6ghz or more, but if you have variant 0 or 1 it will never use it (CPUspy will say 1550 and 1600 are unused frequencies)
Variant 1 can go upt to 1550mhz but not for quadcore, so who cares....! Same for kernels claiming up to 1.7ghz, it's in single/dual core, so once more, who cares?
What is important is what max speed you can achieve in quadcore, nothing else, and the limits are clearly defined by your Tegra3 variant
"all chips are not created equal" was a silly bull**** invented more than one year ago as an easy answer to noobs claiming they couldn't overclock their dual core at their max. Now, on the One-X and because of Nvidia unstable quality"all chips are not created equal" is sadly the truth.
PS: wrong=> to say that overclocking means more voltage, undervolting a custom kernel a little can surprisingly reduce heat when you push your CPU to its max,I can have both 1500mhz quadcore and less voltage than stock, as well as less heat (I was surprised, really, on the Sensation I had always found undervolting kinda useless)
PPS: true=> thermal throttle will always come pretty soon and reduce your max speed......

i900frenchaddict said:
Go to Faux123 and read the opening post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647993
it will teach you about Tegra 3 variants.
Flash Faux123 latest kernel to know what variant you have.
You can have 1.5ghz quadcore minimum, except if you have the poor variant0 of the Tegra 3, and 1.6ghz quadcore max if you have variant 3
So the overclocking you can achieve depends on your Tegra 3 variant, whatever the kernel, don't trust the figures in kernel threads titles, they just give the max if you have variant 3. And the majority of people have variant 1 so limited to 1.5ghz quadcore and there's nothing to do about it, no future kernel can change the way your CPU was manufactured.
Just, SetCPU can display 1.6ghz or more, but if you have variant 0 or 1 it will never use it (CPUspy will say 1550 and 1600 are unused frequencies)
Variant 1 can go upt to 1550mhz but not for quadcore, so who cares....! Same for kernels claiming up to 1.7ghz, it's in single/dual core, so once more, who cares?
What is important is what max speed you can achieve in quadcore, nothing else, and the limits are clearly defined by your Tegra3 variant
"all chips are not created equal" was a silly bull**** invented more than one year ago as an easy answer to noobs claiming they couldn't overclock their dual core at their max. Now, on the One-X and because of Nvidia unstable quality"all chips are not created equal" is sadly the truth.
PS: wrong=> to say that overclocking means more voltage, undervolting a custom kernel a little can surprisingly reduce heat when you push your CPU to its max,I can have both 1500mhz quadcore and less voltage than stock, as well as less heat (I was surprised, really, on the Sensation I had always found undervolting kinda useless)
PPS: true=> thermal throttle will always come pretty soon and reduce your max speed......
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Nice words and I just won't to add variant 1 can now go to 1.55ghz with faux 07vf I'm currently usein with the lowest most stable undervolt values and less heat than stock kernel and gameplay is amazing also on arhd 9.4
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treebill said:
CPU throttle starts at 85c with thermal TJ-max of 99c.
also there is many debates about this, higher speed need more power which drains battery, but that said it means work gets faster meaning it can idle faster saving power, same the other side slower speeds save power but take longer to get work done using more power.
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Your argument makes sense, but unless the governor is very efficient at controlling the CPU speed very quickly, in most cases your argument doesn’t hold true. For example when playing a game or running a CPU intensive application (where overclocking has any use) the processor works at full speed for the duration of the application.
EDIT: Frankly I don’t see any point in overclocking a phone like One X. I don’t play many games, but the few games I have played ran very smoothly. And if people are overclocking because of the (barely noticeable) laggy UI then overclocking is not a real fix anyway. Installing a custom ROM (perhaps JB), a different launcher, tweaking background apps/services are some of the more sensible and effective things to do instead.
No disrespect to the devs who are working on overclocking, but IMO HTC and nVidia must have spent a considerable amount of time and effort designing the CPU and deciding the optimal operational parameters to maximize performance while minimizing battery drain. Therefore anything out of those parameters (in theory at least) should impact either stability, or battery life. Perhaps the values HTC has decided are not the maximum possible values , because I assume they would have designed the phone to handle few exceptional conditions (i.e: extremely hot weathers). But I think over clocking would probably cause more problems in the long run than whatever the little gains you experience in short term. Just my 2c.

joewong1991 said:
Nice words and I just won't to add variant 1 can now go to 1.55ghz with faux 07vf I'm currently usein with the lowest most stable undervolt values and less heat than stock kernel and gameplay is amazing also on arhd 9.4
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Late reply, I hope you'll read it anyway
I tried faux 007b5, so overclock free too, I had 1.55ghz indeed, but never for quadcore, just for single or dual. Sadly I wasn't able to reach 1.5ghz quadcore but 1.4
With 007u, I have 1.5ghz quadcore, but 1.55 is an unused frequency
Can you check, with tegrastats, if you reach 1.55ghz quadcore or only for 1,2 (or3??) cores?

i900frenchaddict said:
Late reply, I hope you'll read it anyway
I tried faux 007b5, so overclock free too, I had 1.55ghz indeed, but never for quadcore, just for single or dual. Sadly I wasn't able to reach 1.5ghz quadcore but 1.4
With 007u, I have 1.5ghz quadcore, but 1.55 is an unused frequency
Can you check, with tegrastats, if you reach 1.55ghz quadcore or only for 1,2 (or3??) cores?
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I tried tegrastats and I got 1.55 4 cores for about 20 sec and then 2 shut of and then ran 2 at 1150 playin dead trigger and on cod zombies 2 cores at 1350 witch I find strange faux 0105b
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Poll: Need some info about OC (only Project T users)

Hi, I need some info from all the Project T users out there (both phone models).
As I made some tests I discovered that the OC code in ZE551ML doesn't seem to work consistently (or not at all according to some users).
I know that UC works, but depending on your feedback I will just continue with one UC'ed build or keep the normal and the OC/UC build
So here my Poll question:
Who has real performance improvements with the OC code?
1) ZE551ML and OC does work
2) ZE551ML and OC doesn't work at all
3) ZE550ML and OC does work
4) ZE550ML and OC doesn't work at all
Thanks!

I can see the phone running at 2000mhz in the freq table... But no much performance boost...
550ml

It doesn't improve performance but yes showing 2ghz in 1.8ghz..
And as I said I can test any build which have 1.8ghz to 2.3ghz if you want and zenfone zoom is going to have 2.5ghz, gpu @640mhz, if they released source, try to implement what they did in that, becoz basically all are same hardware with different clock,. .

It shows 2.5GHz, but geekbench score is not higher than using 2.33GHz. The score for 2.5GHz is even a little bit lower. Tested with performance governor.

Yeah, I feared that...let's see what this poll says, then I can decide if I at least keep the underclocking and keep only the UC version

Intel processors are probably well locked. If tdp throttling is an issue, that can be worked with, but playing with the multiplier is probably out. If anything building a kernel with support for implausibly high frequencies could be a good test. If the phone "works" at 4ghz....
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As I sayed in the Kernel-Thread, all my testing makes clear, that on my phone OC doesn't really work. I see the higher clock used in CPU Spy / Kernel Adiutor but there is no performanceimprovement (551ML).
Thank you for your work. And maybe, there is a solution to unlock the SoC.

Overclocking and Benchmark Scores

Haven't posted on XDA in forever. I originally made an account on here because I'm a benchmark nerd and wanted to know what the highest Antutu score on a Note 2 was (It was my first real smartphone). I was just wondering if anyone has overclocked a Note 10 Plus and what their benchmarks are compared to a stock Note. I remember the stock score I got on the Note 2 was about 11,000 and after overclocking was about 19,000 so I'm just wondering if someone has done it if there is about the same percentage of increase in scores. (Highly doubt it's almost double ?)

I would Def interested in this as well. I love benchmarks and am curious how one over clocks a phone if the bootloader is locked? ****ing pay a $1000 for a phone and can't do what I want with it.. My last note was a 3, then got iPhone for a bit. (not sure what I was thinking) I'm back for good now.
What tools does one need for this?
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You'd need a custom kernel in order to overclock. Currently there are no custom kernels available for the N10+, but you are welcome to create one yourself, as the kernel sources for our phone are available.
However, I think that the Snapdragon variant will take a while to get a custom kernel, given that the bootloader is locked in the american version. Expect custom kernels for the Exynos variant first.
But I don't think we have much headroom for overclocking on these chips.
We currently don't have much information on the Exynos 9825 in the N10+, so my information is purely based on the Exynos 9820, which is the same CPU but in a slightly larger phabrication (8nm vs 7nm). The 9825 should use a little less power than the 9820.
The 9820 at stock clocks pulls around 3 watts for CPU intensive loads (https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14072/SPEC2006eff-overview_575px.png) and around 5 watts for GPU loads (https://www.anandtech.com/show/14072/the-samsung-galaxy-s10plus-review/10).
Given that the phone is a passive design, we can't expect the phone to cool 5 watts peak performance. which is what we see. The 9825 appears to throttle under certain sustained loads (https://www.computerbase.de/2019-09/samsung-galaxy-note-10-exynos-9825-dauerlast/).
And given how overclocking works, you'd realistically just get a few couple hundred MHz on the Mongoose cores or the A75 cores, before things become unstable or overheat.
The 9820 was already pretty agressive on the voltage curve (https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14072/Exynos9820-Voltages_575px.png), I don't think the Exynos can push that much higher than stock.
But only time can tell when we can test it ourselves with a custom kernel.

If you succeed w/ overclocking, you may wanna compare your scores with the standard Antutu bench I did on both S10e(8/256GB) and N10+(12/256):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wvHYJhfIKw&feature=youtu.be

here you are
n975F Dr ketan s P06
Last fde ai

naya28 said:
here you are
n975F Dr ketan s P06
Last fde ai
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sorry to bother you with something this old, but do you have before and after scores and are you on exynos android 10 or 9?
the scores seems quite higher than stock but we have no reference since you may be running a custom rom.
if you can add some details I would appreciate it alot,thanks for your time.

Aaron_Woolery said:
Haven't posted on XDA in forever. I originally made an account on here because I'm a benchmark nerd and wanted to know what the highest Antutu score on a Note 2 was (It was my first real smartphone). I was just wondering if anyone has overclocked a Note 10 Plus and what their benchmarks are compared to a stock Note. I remember the stock score I got on the Note 2 was about 11,000 and after overclocking was about 19,000 so I'm just wondering if someone has done it if there is about the same percentage of increase in scores. (Highly doubt it's almost double ?)
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Theres the bullfrog kernel with tons of optimizations and scores range from 460k-480k.
Kernel though is on telegram and not xda.

Ahmadhmedan said:
sorry to bother you with something this old, but do you have before and after scores and are you on exynos android 10 or 9?
the scores seems quite higher than stock but we have no reference since you may be running a custom rom.
if you can add some details I would appreciate it alot,thanks for your time.[/QUOTEI don t remember but it was on Pie with ketan s Rom and Nemesis kernel I think.
I don t have screenshot of before.
Fde.ai is a really good optimiser.
Now I m on Q but pie was great.
Sorry if I can t help you anymore.
Ciao
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Aaron_Woolery said:
Haven't posted on XDA in forever. I originally made an account on here because I'm a benchmark nerd and wanted to know what the highest Antutu score on a Note 2 was (It was my first real smartphone). I was just wondering if anyone has overclocked a Note 10 Plus and what their benchmarks are compared to a stock Note. I remember the stock score I got on the Note 2 was about 11,000 and after overclocking was about 19,000 so I'm just wondering if someone has done it if there is about the same percentage of increase in scores. (Highly doubt it's almost double ?)
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Bfg kernel has been, not overclocking, but somewhat stretching the device. Yesterday they peaked 500k in antutu. Normal antutu on bfg kernel is >480k vs stock at 440k.

[REQUEST][KERNEL] 225%-245% performance increase

a point
Why on earth the phone
redmi note 7 pro which have snapdragon 675 and antutu of 210,000 can play pubg on 61.2 fps after screen overclocking and no heat after 1 hour of playing pubg
But the
Samsung S9+ with snapdragon 845 and antutu of 345,000 and a GPU that has more than 4 times the performance of the snapdragon 675 in antutu and after only half an hour it can't sustain 40 fps and a heat degree that can cook eggs on the frame of the device
Not even taking about battery life
The request
To make it short
Iam not a developer (too bad)
So I wish if some awesome developer can port one of these kernels
[Crimson Kernel] or [Hydra+ Kernel]
The reason
Again to make it short
225%-245% performance increase
Noticeable in gaming fps
More importantly
Way less heat while gaming
And better battery life
How on earth
Simple
Just see for your self the videos down below
Since the s9+ have Havoc OS
We need the Kernel
Please watch those 4 minutes videos
I'm sure it deserve your time
The videos
Links
https://github.com/uditkarode/crimson
From redmi note 7 pro
https://tweakguy.com/download-crimson-kernel-66-hz-for-android-phones/
The reason a developer should care
This device the samsung galaxy s9/s9+ had its last major update a month ago
So no major updates are coming to this device again
Only 2-3 security update left
So your work is what will write a new life for this device
So please help

at least comment or something so developers can hear us

I can confirm that this device has some problems with heat. But it's not what you think. Mostly it's related to the kernel thermal framework, which is responsible to avoid big increasements in temperature. You can think of it like a process that monitors heat and power. When a certain threshold of temperature is reached, thermal fw will throttle down the CPU/GPU freq until the heat is significantly lowered (that's not entirely exact, but it can be explained that way). I think that Samsung somehow messed up this in some way - because this problem happens on many S9 devices, even on stock.
This process is also responsible for decreasing performance in apps and games, because to archive lower temperatures, it throttles down power. That's most likely why you get lower FPS after some time.
The device's hardware itself doesn't require a power boost, because it has more than enough power to beat most games in high FPS. If you now would increase the kernel's power and freqs, you would only get higher heating.
We need whether a better thermal throttling mechanism, which can only be done via kernel. ALternately you can modify and tweak the settings to stay in lower freqs in order to avoid the overheating. For example a kernel module. Or, for easy use, FDE.AI and set it to powersave (NOT anything else! Because it includes a boost mode fdor CPU/GPU that actually increases the frequencies, which will result in more heat). But even in powersafe mode, it won't decrease your gaming performance! I've tested this a long time. However, if you know what you're doing, just tweak settings by yourself. Or look for another solution, like LKT maybe.
Another idea: Here's a custom kernel. It's up to date for now. The developer has stopped the support a few days back. But it includes the current security patches, so you can use it without worries. It includes a solution for the overheating issue. I didn't test it yet, but I will. Here is the link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/kernel-rz-kernel-samsung-galaxy-s9-t4081191

dtrail1 said:
I can confirm that this device has some problems with heat. But it's not what you think. Mostly it's related to the kernel thermal framework, which is responsible to avoid big increasements in temperature. You can think of it like a process that monitors heat and power. When a certain threshold of temperature is reached, thermal fw will throttle down the CPU/GPU freq until the heat is significantly lowered (that's not entirely exact, but it can be explained that way). I think that Samsung somehow messed up this in some way - because this problem happens on many S9 devices, even on stock.
This process is also responsible for decreasing performance in apps and games, because to archive lower temperatures, it throttles down power. That's most likely why you get lower FPS after some time.
The device's hardware itself doesn't require a power boost, because it has more than enough power to beat most games in high FPS. If you now would increase the kernel's power and freqs, you would only get higher heating.
We need whether a better thermal throttling mechanism, which can only be done via kernel. ALternately you can modify and tweak the settings to stay in lower freqs in order to avoid the overheating. For example a kernel module. Or, for easy use, FDE.AI and set it to powersave (NOT anything else! Because it includes a boost mode fdor CPU/GPU that actually increases the frequencies, which will result in more heat). But even in powersafe mode, it won't decrease your gaming performance! I've tested this a long time. However, if you know what you're doing, just tweak settings by yourself. Or look for another solution, like LKT maybe.
Another idea: Here's a custom kernel. It's up to date for now. The developer has stopped the support a few days back. But it includes the current security patches, so you can use it without worries. It includes a solution for the overheating issue. I didn't test it yet, but I will. Here is the link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...t/kernel-rz-kernel-samsung-galaxy-s9-t4081191
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First thanks for replying
And
Not talking as a developer but
Samsung firmware and maybe kernel focuses on security and nox integration and alot of unused features for many people
And to your knowledge how the redmi note 7 pro can jump from 26 fps to 62 fps and less heat by only changing the Kernel to Crimson Kernel

That moment when I discovered that g965u1 has no bootloader unlock
???????????????????

TIP
I managed to solve the problem, I just did the following: I took root, installed a thermal, disabled battery saving for pubg, and run the game using the pubg gfx app. it was smooth I played + 1 hour without dropping frames.

Bruh

Oh thanks

The s9+ never needed half it's performance to play pubg on 60 fps
And still overheat too much
Look here

@mhmedahmed1996 Maybe instead of complaining here like a kid, you should learn how to code and make one yourself. The developers here work for free and are not vending machines where you ask for something and you get it immediately.

I know and I'm sorry
When I posted this thread I thought I will try my best as someone who can't code
Maybe test and send logs but now I discovered that my g965u1 has no bootloader unlock
You can't imagine how I feel now

erickgta222 said:
I managed to solve the problem, I just did the following: I took root, installed a thermal, disabled battery saving for pubg, and run the game using the pubg gfx app. it was smooth I played + 1 hour without dropping frames.
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What exactly do you mean by "installed a thermal"? At least for the S9 starlte I couldn't find any custom kernel with a custom thermal fw and I don't have the time to develop one by myself. So if you know something I missed, I'd appreciate to get it
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I installed a thermal module through the maginsk manager.

erickgta222 said:
I installed a thermal module through the maginsk manager.
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And what module exactly?
I've been searching that for a long time, but I can assure you that I never found one. I'm curious what module you're talking about.
Edit: well, whether you've installed something that is doing something entirely different - like disabling thermal throttling. Those do exist.
or it's for another device - there is a thermal mod for Xiaomi phones. But it actually tweak TFW for less throttling to increase performance.
Or there is a module that can only be found by getting a certain link, which is hidden to the public - but why would that be?
Or it's just nonsense.
I'd appreciate it if you could post a link to that module.
Otherwise I'll end up developing one for myself (maybe, if I have enough time! Because first I'd have to get more knowledge about how to develop kernel modules for magisk, that are compatible with my device. I developed custom kernel for OMAP4 devices a few years ago. But that's a little different I suppose... And it wasn't magisk.)
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You'll have to hack it together but here's the source code.
GitHub - MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource at violet-q-oss
Xiaomi Mobile Phone Kernel OpenSource. Contribute to MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

Question Are u happy with your RM6 Pro?

Tomorow I am going to sell my Asus Rog5, so now I want to buy RM6 Pro ...So question is simple are you happy with you phone?
And pros and cons pls

Hello, I know am late on this but do not sell your ROG.. RM6 have lots of software issues. the most am suffering with is they limit it from using full performance! I can't see it using 840mhz on GPU for genshin or ANY game! my friend have ROG 5 and I can see his GPU on SD888 can use full performance. Nubia's software is really not good! I regret buying it.

Ammark93 said:
Hello, I know am late on this but do not sell your ROG.. RM6 have lots of software issues. the most am suffering with is they limit it from using full performance! I can't see it using 840mhz on GPU for genshin or ANY game! my friend have ROG 5 and I can see his GPU on SD888 can use full performance. Nubia's software is really not good! I regret buying it.
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While I agree with RM6's software issues, I'm not so sure about your statements on their GPU performance. I own a standard ROG Phone 5 and I can confirm that GPU speed runs at max speed for the first 5 minutes of playing Genshin, but quickly slows down as the device heats up. This is even with AeroActive Cooler 5 mounted and set to max fan speed. So it's important to also determine and compare sustained GPU performance, which I believe RM6 wins here.

Phone build is good. Spec and features are good but very lacking in the software department. Bugs and errors in lots of parts of the phone. Physically feels good but software feels bad. Runs games well

Quiexo said:
While I agree with RM6's software issues, I'm not so sure about your statements on their GPU performance. I own a standard ROG Phone 5 and I can confirm that GPU speed runs at max speed for the first 5 minutes of playing Genshin, but quickly slows down as the device heats up. This is even with AeroActive Cooler 5 mounted and set to max fan speed. So it's important to also determine and compare sustained GPU performance, which I believe RM6 wins here.
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I never.. like never seen the GPU runs at 840mhz, only in antutu. for genshin I see it goes up to 600mhz something when I run the game while the phone is cool, then it drops right away to 540mhz. and keeps like that or lower. and no matter how much I cool it, it never goes above that. I used their new cooler.. and I put the device in front of AC that it got so cold. yet still never gone above 540mhz.. even the CPU stuck at 2.4.. how is this not an issue? I just want to use the full performance. I had RM5 G and I used the rom they provided here to boost the GPU to 940mhz, it was doing better than this one.. I'll never buy a phone from Nubia ever again. next time I'll just get the ROG.

Ammark93 said:
I never.. like never seen the GPU runs at 840mhz, only in antutu. for genshin I see it goes up to 600mhz something when I run the game while the phone is cool, then it drops right away to 540mhz. and keeps like that or lower. and no matter how much I cool it, it never goes above that. I used their new cooler.. and I put the device in front of AC that it got so cold. yet still never gone above 540mhz.. even the CPU stuck at 2.4.. how is this not an issue? I just want to use the full performance. I had RM5 G and I used the rom they provided here to boost the GPU to 940mhz, it was doing better than this one.. I'll never buy a phone from Nubia ever again. next time I'll just get the ROG.
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My GPU reaching at max frequency probably happened while I was sitting in the start screen or looking straight at the wall but now that I think about it it didn't really maintain for 5 minutes. The Adreno 660 is very power hungry and runs hot this time around for internal and external cooling to matter (hence RM6 has the edge). You can certainly use custom kernel to boost the GPU even higher but I'd worry about phones with limited cooling. Also I've yet to find ROG 5 custom kernel that boosts GPU frequency.
But really the SoC should improve on efficiency aspect as the ROG 3 did really well in peak and sustained performance. There's hope and excitement for the upcoming AMD GPU on mobile but I'm not sure if other vendors will adopt it besides Samsung.