The founders of OnePlus used to say they only make flagship phones, but since the introduction of the R and the RT series, OnePlus seems to be focusing more and more on budget products. A couple of weeks ago, we briefly got our hands on the OnePlus ACE. Although it comes with the Dimensity 8100 Max processor and support for up to 150W fast charging, the lack of a ‘Never Settle’ slogan and the alert slider disappointed many OnePlus fans. Today, we’ll bring you the review of the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition, a product that may prove that the brand has just begun to settle.

OnePlus ACE Racing – Design

The design of the OnePlus ACE is based on the Realme GT Neo 3, while today’s Racing Edition is an appearance replacement edition for the OPPO K10 (review). It’s hard to notice the difference between them in terms of parameters, but over the appearance, they have a very similar back cover and are made of the exact same material. This plastic material with a matte finish can be very effective in preventing fingerprints, but may not be conducive to heat dissipation, which we will verify later in the gaming test.

The camera module of the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition looks identical to that of the OPPO K10. Although OnePlus has added a decorative camera shape in the lower right corner, seemingly disguising that this is a four-camera phone, the phone actually has only two lenses really working in daily shooting and another macro lens of only 2 megapixels.

For me the only positive detail of the Racing Edition is the support of a 3.5mm headphone jack, I believe that many people do not want to put up with the high latency of wireless headphones when playing games, but unfortunately, there is no other brand of flagship phones that support 3.5mm headphone jack except Sony. At this point, the Racing model looks good.

OnePlus ACE Racing – Display

The OnePlus ACE Racing Edition has a 1080P 120Hz LCD screen. As a result, it has a wider chin, as well as wider screen bezels, and a larger hole-punch front camera. And the in-screen fingerprint recognition has been also replaced by a side recognition button serving as a fingerprint reader, which, however, I think is a more efficient way to unlock the phone, as the capacitive fingerprint button has a better unlock speed and success rate than the under-screen fingerprint recognition in most cases.

Compared to the OnePlus ACE, the Racing Edition’s LCD screen looks sharper, especially when displaying text. But the LCD screen doesn’t perform as well as OLED in terms of color, contrast, and brightness, as you can see it has lighter colors and lower contrast, and doesn’t support HDR content, either. 

So if you like watching movies on your phone, I don’t really recommend the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition, and another point to consider is that it doesn’t support AOD, which means you’ll have to manually wake up the screen to check it when you want to check the time or just miss a notification.

OnePlus ACE Racing – Performance & Benchmarks

OnePlus ACE Racing Edition comes with the enhanced Dimensity 8100 Max chipset. We didn’t do performance and gaming tests in the previous OnePlus ACE unboxing video, so this time I’ll show how the Dimensity 8100 Max performs on a OnePlus phone with the ACE Racing Edition.

Here are some benchmark results we got on the Ace racing.

Antutu score is 777529, GeekBench 5 score is 959 single-core, and 3760 in multi-cores. 3D MARK scores 6000. The performance is a bit better than the Redmi K50, so let’s see how it performs in real gaming. In Genshin Impact, the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition was able to maintain a frame rate of around 50 fps for the first ten minutes, but as the phone got hotter, the frame rate dropped to around 40, yet I didn’t feel that the phone was too hot and obviously, OnePlus was still too conservative in its performance optimization.

PUBG has not yet been optimized on the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition. We are only able to run the game at the maximum framerate of 40fps with HDR graphic settings. Obviously, it’s far too easy for the Dimensity chipset.

OnePlus ACE Racing – Cameras

The Ace Racing is weaker in terms of camera configuration compared to OnePlus ACE, and the main camera doesn’t support OIS, although its target group probably doesn’t care much about taking photos, here we still want to show you the camera comparison between these two phones.

Compared to the OnePlus ACE, the Racing Edition’s main camera has a similar dynamic range and detail performance, but the colors are lighter than the OnePlus ACE and the view angle is a bit smaller. The ultra-wide-angle lens performs similarly, with the OnePlus ACE having a wider view angle and more vibrant colors.

When we move to night scenes, the gap starts to show up, with the Racing Edition not comparing to the OnePlus ACE in terms of dark details due to the smaller sensor size and lack of OIS support.

From these samples, you can see that the Racing Edition’s photo is brighter, but looking at the photo parameters, we can see that it just uses a higher ISO and faster shutter speed, which explains why the Racing Edition photo has poorer detail. 

But what’s interesting is that when you manually turn on the night mode to extend the shutter time and have a firm grip on the racing model, you will get a night shot with better detail performance than the OnePlus ACE.

What’s even more incredible is that the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition’s ultra-wide-angle lens performs much better than the OnePlus ACE, and in dimmer scenes as well, you can see the photos taken by the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition have better detail and color.

You can get the full-size samples of the OnePlus ACE and the ACE Racing edition here.

OnePlus ACE Racing – Battery Life & Charging

OnePlus ACE Racing Edition packs a 5000 mAh battery that supports up to 65W of fast charging. In the first 30 minutes it charged to 71%, but after that, it took 22 minutes to get fully charged.

Okay, so that’s the full review of the OnePlus ACE Racing Edition. As I said at the beginning, it’s a phone without many features of OnePlus, but it’s not a bad product in this price range, and the gaming performance is even able to compare to OnePlus’ flagships. I think it’s actually a good entry-level product for those new users who are new to OnePlus for the first time, but I still wish OnePlus could bring the alert slider button back to these entry-level products.

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If you are a gamer or a power user and you are searching for a phone offering you the highest performance at the most affordable price, you have several choices in 2022. Among these, if you live in China, there is Redmi Note 11T Pro. It is very affordable but its performance is comparable to the ones found on flagships. Another amazing handset in the same price range with an amazing hardware department is the OnePlus Ace Racing Edition, which is the second device from the brand new Ace series from OnePlus (borrowed from OPPO which killed this series years ago). These two devices are very similar and it may be hard to understand which one to choose, especially with similar prices. This is a comparison between the specifications of the Redmi Note 11T Pro and the OnePlus Ace Racing Edition.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 11T Pro vs OnePlus Ace Racing Edition

Design

Even though it is a pretty elegant phone, the Redmi Note 11T Pro does not come with an original design. It looks like the handsets from the Xiaomi 12 series with a camera module sporting the same color as the rest of the body. Unfortunately, it is not made with premium materials: it is entirely made of polycarbonate (with the exception of the display, obviously) but it is protected against dust and water thanks to the IP53 certification making it dust resistant and splash resistant. The OnePlus Ace Racing Edition has a more original design, even though not everyone may like it. It comes with a thinner body but slightly bigger dimensions because of its thicker bezels around the display. It is made of polycarbonate too and it does not offer any certification against water and dust.

Display

The Redmi Note 11T Pro has a display with a diagonal of 6.6 inches, a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2460 pixels, the HDR10 certification, Dolby Vision support, and a refresh rate of 144 Hz. Unfortunately, it is an IPS LCD panel and not an AMOLED one, but it still provides great image quality. Further, it even provides the smoothest viewing experience thanks to its very high refresh rate. It is definitely the best display of this comparison. The OnePlus Ace Racing Edition has an IPS display too, with a diagonal of 6.59 inches, a Full HD+ resolution of 1080 x 2412 pixels, and a 120 Hz refresh rate. In both cases, the displays are good for gamers thanks to the high refresh rate. Both the handsets are equipped with stereo speakers and side-mounted fingerprint readers for authentication.

Specs & Software

The OnePlus Ace Racing Edition comes with the most advanced hardware setup. It is powered by an octa-core Mediatek Dimensity 8100 Max mobile platform paired with up to 12 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. This hardware department has nothing to envy to the most expensive flasghips out there, even though its processor can actually be compared to the Snadpragon 888 and not to the latest Qualcomm and MediaTek flagship chipsets. The Redmi Note 11T Pro is fueled by the Dimensity 8100 chipset by MediaTek: it is the same as the Dimensity 8100 Max, but with inferior AI performance. But the Redmi device has just 8 GB of RAM in its most advanced configuration. These devices run Android 12 out of the box with highly customized user interfaces on top.

Camera

On the camera side, these handsets are almost identical. They come with a 64 MP main camera (a midrange-class sensor), an 8 MP ultrawide lens, and a 2 MP macro camera. The main camera is able to record 4K videos at 30 fps and the front camera has a resolution of 16 MP and supports 1080p video recording. The camera departments do not differ, but the OnePlus Ace Racing Edition should be able to shoot better photos in several scenarios thanks to better algorithm, as well as a brighter focal aperture for the main camera.

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Battery

There is not much difference between the battery capacities of these two handsets, but the battery of the Redmi Note 11T Pro is slightly bigger with a capacity of 5080 mAh. However, the software will play an important role when it comes to battery life. Both the phones support 67W fast charging.

Price

Currently, the Redmi Note 11T Pro and the OnePlus Ace Racing Edition are only available in the Chinese market. We still do not know when the former will hit the global shelves, but it will be soon. OnePlus still did not announce anything about the global launch of its flagship killer. The Redmi Note 11T Pro has a starting price which roughly translates into €250/$263, while the OnePlus Ace Racing Edition starts from €280/$295. Which one would you pick?

Xiaomi Redmi Note 11T Pro vs OnePlus Ace Racing Edition: PRO and CONS

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PRO

• 144 Hz refresh rate
• Better display
• IP53 certification
• Bigger battery

CONS

• IPS display

OnePlus Ace Racing Edition

PRO

• Better processor
• More RAM
• Better camera performance
• Thinner

CONS

• IPS display

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