REDMI K Pad review: Large-screen gaming console that can be packed into pockets – Passionategeekz –

[CNMO Review]Since last year, “counter-growing” small-screen mobile phones have emerged like mushrooms after a rain, and major brands have launched corresponding products to meet the market trends. And this year, this trend has also swept into the tablet market. As a representative of extreme performance, REDMI also took the opportunity to officially launch its first flagship small tablet – REDMI K Pad, which formed a “raceful” combination of the two K Demon Kings with the K80 Supreme Edition launched together.

Deco-free design, gold size in pocket

As a flagship small tablet, the REDMI K Pad uses a gold-sized 8.8-inch screen, so the whole machine can be mastered in one hand, especially when you go out. In addition to being better stuffed into the bag, it can even be placed directly in the pocket, which is the best solution between a large screen and portability.

In terms of appearance design, the REDMI K Pad is also very different from the current mainstream design. The back adopts a minimalist design style, especially the position of the rear lens, and adopts a DECO-free design. It is matched with the transition process of the all-metal integrated body and the micro-arc frame. The whole machine is very coordinated and natural.

Back to the front of the body, the REDMI K Pad has a brand new custom-made 8.8-inch 3K LCD e-sports eye protection screen with a PPI of up to 403. And thanks to the high-gloss film material, the peak brightness of this screen can reach 700nit, and there is no problem with daily use. The 165Hz screen refresh rate and 372Hz touch sampling rate also show that this tablet was born for the game.

At the screen eye protection level, REDMI K Pad adopts Xiaomi Qingshan eye protection solution, which supports full brightness DC dimming. The newly upgraded rhythm eye protection can comprehensively adjust the screen color temperature according to a variety of conditions, thereby reducing blue light damage. It is worth mentioning that REDMI K Pad not only passed the three certifications of Rhine hardware-level low blue light, Rhine rhythm friendly and Rhine strobe-free, but also obtained the “Visual Health Friendly S++” certification issued by the China Quality Certification Center.

Small screen flagship, peak performance

As a small e-sports tablet, the REDMI K Pad adopts the current top Dimensity 9400+ mobile processing platform on the core SoC, adopts TSMC’s 3nm process process, and the CPU adopts the second-generation full-core structure of “four big and four super” with a main frequency of up to 3.73GHz. After actual testing, Antutu’s running score reached 2.86 million+, surpassing the current Android performance list – the first in the Pad performance list.

It is worth mentioning that REDMI K Pad also breaks the routine in the layout of internal architecture. It first launched the SoC mid-level architecture, which stacks the SoCs of the core heat source in the center of the entire machine. The advantage of this design is that it can greatly reduce the temperature of the user’s holding area, and the heating speed is faster, which can effectively improve the heat dissipation efficiency.

In addition, in order to have better heat dissipation performance, REDMI K Pad is also equipped with the industry’s largest aluminum alloy liquid-cooled VC with an area of ​​up to 12,050mm. It is also combined with AI intelligent temperature control algorithm to achieve a win-win performance and temperature.

At the software level of performance, the REDMI K Pad is equipped with the Fury Engine 4.0, which reduces power consumption while improving the optimal energy efficiency for critical tasks such as game rendering and logic processing. To this end, the author selected two games, “Genshin Impact” and “Cangfa Star Railway” for testing to see how the actual performance and temperature control of the REDMI K Pad are.

First of all, “Genshin Impact”. In the air-conditioned room with room temperature of 25 degrees, all the settings in the game are turned on to the highest level, the tablet turns on the rage mode and intelligent frame insertion, and finally in the half-hour Sumeru running map, the average frame rate captured by the performance dog is 119.4 FPS, and the entire frame rate map is almost a straight line.

In terms of temperature performance, in the half-hour Genshin Impact running diagram, the maximum temperature on the front and back of the body is only 40.6℃, and it can also be seen from the temperature diagram that thanks to the effect of the SoC mid-mounted architecture, the highest temperature is concentrated in the C position of the entire machine, and the temperature in other positions is lower, making it more convenient to hold when used.

In the test of “Cangfa Star Dome”, all the settings in the game were also turned on to the highest, and the tablet turned on the rage mode and super resolution. Due to the intelligent frame insertion effect of “Cangfa Star Dome Railway”, the performance dog cannot catch it and still displays it at 60 FPS, so the author has changed the display enhancement function of Super Resolution.

Finally, in the half-hour “Golden Moment” running chart, the average frame rate captured by the performance dog was 59.7 FPS, and the frame rate chart was basically in a straight line. At the same time, the maximum temperature on the front of the fuselage was 43.9℃ and the maximum temperature on the back was 42.8℃, which achieved expectations.

It is worth mentioning that at the Internet level of games, REDMI K Pad has also launched a cross-end game collaboration solution in the industry, which can be achieved through AI game services in the game side window. With this feature, the REDMI K Pad and the REDMI K80 Supreme Edition can be played seamlessly through cloud gaming. At the same time, the first game expansion screen functions can also be secondary screens for each other, thereby realizing the dual gaming experience of playing games on your mobile phone, looking at maps on the tablet or lineup analysis on the phone.

Not just a game

In addition to entertainment attributes, REDMI K Pad also has certain learning and office features, such as supporting PC-level office applications such as CAJ, CAD, WPS, etc. The built-in super document can also support viewing and editing in 140+ file formats. There are also remote control PC, workbench mode, cross-end collaboration, etc.

In terms of the software ecosystem, REDMI K Pad can also be a perfect match for Apple users, which can realize file transfer, Mac expansion screen, and open MacOS-specific Keynote, Pages, Numbers and other files, which can be seamlessly transferred and connected with the Apple ecosystem.

In terms of battery life, the REDMI K Pad has a built-in 7500mAh long-life battery. After 1,800 cycles certified by South Germany, the available capacity is still ≥80%. In addition, in terms of energy replenishment, the REDMI K Pad also launched a dual USB-C port, which can have a more comfortable charging posture regardless of horizontal grip or vertical grip. In addition, the bypass charging function makes the experience better when playing games.

In other aspects, the REDMI K Pad is equipped with a three-antenna concurrent architecture, upgrading the traditional 2.4G+5G to 2.4G+5G-L+5G-H three-band transmission, greatly improving the experience of PAD streaming gaming, screen projection and interconnection. At the same time, the built-in WiFi GAMMA wall-through antenna array has also greatly improved the signal strength. The optimized antenna layout has achieved zero occlusion in horizontal screen scenes, and has passed the five-star certification of the tablet communication performance of the National Radio Center.

Written at the end

In general, as the first flagship small tablet under REDMI, the REDMI K Pad can be said to have achieved its ultimate in all aspects. The 8.8-inch gold size can be held in one hand, and it is stress-free even when put in the pocket. On this basis, the top-level software and hardware performance also has a certain crushing momentum. In addition to its certain office learning ability, I believe that as long as the price is high, the REDMI K Pad may replicate the leading trend of Xiaomi’s small-screen mobile phones, causing a “bloody storm” in the small tablet market.