Redmi Note 17 Pro Max gaming performance, Digi Mart USA News: Anyone planning to play demanding games on the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max 5G will have to accept some compromises. According to a Notebookcheck review, the Xiaomi smartphone reached a median of 60 FPS in PUBG Mobile using the HD graphics preset, but gameplay did not feel consistently smooth.
The main problem is stuttering, which is visible in the 1% low FPS values measured with GameBench. This metric captures the slowest 1% of rendered frames and reveals brief performance drops that average frame rates can hide.
In PUBG Mobile on HD, the 1% low was just 16 FPS, and lowering the graphics to the Smooth preset reduced the median to 56 FPS with a 1% low of only 13 FPS.
Other titles fared worse according to the same testing. In Genshin Impact, the phone achieved a median of 50 FPS and a 1% low of about 25 FPS on low settings, but on high settings these figures dropped to 45 and 12 FPS.
In Diablo Immortal at high settings without ray tracing, the review measured a median of 39 FPS and a 1% low of just 9 FPS.
The review also noted a warm-up period, with frame rates in several games improving considerably after the first 30 seconds. Even so, stuttering did not disappear entirely as sessions progressed.
The reviewer concluded that the phone offers enough performance for occasional gaming, but that regular gamers would be better served by a more powerful smartphone.
