How Much RAM is Enough? The Taiwanese manufacturer Asus answers this question in a very unique way. The new ROG Phone 5 has more memory than the average gaming PC. Elsewhere, too, the Android smartphone is likely to refer to features that leave you speechless.

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Whether Samsung, Xiaomi or Huawei: Most of the top-class Android smartphones have 8 GB of RAM. This is also sufficient for the most common usage scenarios. The ROG Phone 5, on the other hand, is aimed specifically at mobile gamers, which is why manufacturer Asus has added a decent amount of RAM to the RAM.

Asus ROG Phone 5: Android smartphone with 18 GB of RAM

This is what the Asus ROG Phone 5 should look like in white. Image: Asus / Ishan Agarwal.

Up to 18 GB of RAM should have the gaming smartphone on board depending on the equipment variant, reports 9to5Google. For comparison: The Samsung Galaxy S21 and Xiaomi Mi 11, currently the most interesting smartphones in the Android sector, look pretty old with their 8 GB of RAM. So the Asus ROG Phone 5 is at the top more than twice as much RAM as the smartphone flagships different manufacturer. And the comparison with classic gaming PCs also wins the Asus phone: According to Steam they have to be satisfied with an average of 16 GB of RAM.

In combination with the brand new Snapdragon 888, which should be built into the gaming smartphone, the Android smartphone should be one of the most complex mobile games Top-class performance Offer. Mobile communications insider Ishan Agarwal on Twitter has before the official Presentation today March 10th published some press photos of the Asus ROG Phone 5. The white version (picture above) is particularly impressive and will likely be well received by potential buyers.

The predecessor already scored points with its sheer power:

ROG Phone 5: Asus skips number 4

Asus recently launched the ROG Phone 3. With the upcoming successor, one would simply skip the nominally fourth version of the gaming smartphone series. If the predecessor is used as a yardstick, buyers can also expect top-level equipment apart from the gigantic RAM: the ROG Phone 3 featured a 6,000 mAh battery and an AMOLED display with 144 Hz. It shouldn’t actually be below that.