After many months, Redmi has finally entered the gaming segment with the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition. Unlike other Snapdragon 888 and 870 devices, the K40 Gaming Edition supports the MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset.
At the moment, the device is still exclusive to the Chinese market, but it will make its global debut soon under the guise of the POCO F3 GT.
Today, Lu Weibin, head of the Redmi brand, revealed an interesting fact about this smartphone.
The CEO said on Weibo that more than 70% of Redmi K40 Gaming Edition owners have the 12GB RAM variant. This is a very significant percentage, considering that the phone is also available in variants with 6 GB and 8 GB of RAM.
Apparently, some users don't even consider the price difference. More than half of Redmi K40 Gaming Edition buyers go straight to the best possible option. This is not a big surprise, as gamers tend to choose the best hardware. Lu Weibing used this post to ask his readers if they consider RAM and built-in memory when choosing a new smartphone.
Having a large amount of RAM is an important fact when running heavy games and performing multitasking duties. After all, more RAM will allow more programs or games to continue running in the background. The phone will not slow down and applications will not receive sudden reboots if there is enough RAM.
This is especially important for gamers, after all, no one wants your game to close just because you had to make a quick call or read a notification from a messaging app. For this reason, it is vital to have the best combo on a gaming smartphone.
Specifications of Redmi K40 Gaming Edition
The MediaTek Dimensity 1200 has one ARM Cortex-A78 core clocked at 3GHz, three ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at up to 2,6GHz and four ARM Cortex-A55 cores clocked at up to 2,2GHz. The chipset also has a very powerful Mali-G77 with nine cores.
The device is available in 6GB RAM + 128GB storage, 8GB RAM + 128GB storage, 8GB RAM + 256GB storage and 12GB RAM variants. yati + 128 GB of memory.
Note that the 12GB option is the best RAM option, but it's not the best storage option. Therefore, users prefer more RAM against 256 GB of built-in memory, which is only available with 8 GB of RAM.
It is worth noting that the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition does not support a microSD card. So, whatever storage it comes with is what you're stuck with.
The phone flaunts a 6,67-inch OLED display with a refresh rate of 120 Hz and a central hole. There's a 64-megapixel primary camera on the back, accompanied by an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 2-megapixel macro camera, while a 16-megapixel selfie camera sits in the display hole.
The device also boasts stereo speakers with JBL tuning. For gaming experience, it comes with mechanical gaming triggers.
The fingerprint sensor sits on the side and the device also has NFC. Autonomy is supported by a 5065 mAh battery with 67 W fast charging.
