Best Mobile Phones for Gaming in India (June 2023)

The iQOO 11. It is the perfect mix of performance and gaming features which make it arguably the best phone any gamer could buy in the country right now. At the heart of the device is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which the most powerful SoC available to Android phones at the moment. This has been paired with a whopping up to 16GB RAM and 256GB of storage. iQOO’s also added a high refresh and resolution screen on the phone. This is a 1440x3200 OLED panel capable of refreshing up to 144Hz. All these combined with the phone’s in-built game mode, makes this a solid phone for gaming. Proof of this is also found in benchmark results, where the iQOO 11 has scored some of the best results we’ve seen on any phone to date.

While there are many affordable gaming phones available in India, the Poco M5 is the best of the lot. This is because it comes packing MediaTek’s most powerful mid-range chipset, the 6nm Helio G99 SoC. The phone offers lag-free performance not just in tasks of daily use, but also works well in games that do push the device’s capabilities to the limit. However, at no point does the phone come up short, as the chipset inside it is one of the best for multi-tasking and moderate gaming. While the phone may not run the most demanding of titles such as Call of Duty Mobile at extreme settings, users can expect to game at mid to high settings at 60 fps.

There are many phones that offer very good performance in PUBG, with any phone being powered by a flagship chipset from either MediaTek, Qualcomm or Apple, promising to run the game without a hitch. However, there are some phones that offer slightly better performance in the game because of their ability to handles thermals better and in effect provide more stable performance for a longer duration. Arguably the one phone that does this the best is the iQOO 11. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC and offers stable peaks for the long gaming sessions. Additionally, this device also comes with gaming first features such as motion control and pressure-sensitive button mapping to elevate gaming experiences in PUBG.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the current king of Qualcomm mobile chipsets, and as such, it is also the best when it comes to gaming. The chipset uses a four CPU cluster architecture where there's one big prime core based on the ARM Cortex-X3 architecture and two ARM Cortex-A715-based performance cores as well. But arguably the biggest advantage it brings over other Snapdragon chips is that it offers major upgrades in the GPU department. This is because the new chipset gets the Adreno 740 GPU, which offers a claimed 25% improvement in handling of graphics intensive tasks, and that too while consuming 45% less energy in comparison to previous generation chipsets from Qualcomm. And that’s not it. It is also the first Qualcomm Snapdragon chip to bring with itself support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The latter would ensure that any phone running this chipset will be ready to handle ray-tracing once we have games that can take advantage of this technology.