After the red rice 2 of 699 yuan, Xiaomi released the more brutal red rice 2A at the end of March. It is the red rice 2 with a domestic processor. In addition, there is no difference, but the price is 100 yuan cheaper, only 599 yuan.

At present, both mobile phones are available for purchase on Xiaomi's official website. So the question is, do you want to save 100 yuan and buy a red rice 2A with domestic chips? What will you lose if you save 100? We tried to find the answer.

The 2A is only available in mobile version, so please leave China Unicom

Both mobile phones are 4G dual card models, but the network baseband is different, so the two mobile phones have different network support for operators: Hongmi 2 has three versions: China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom; The Hongmi 2A is only available in mobile version, so Unicom or telecom users can directly pass the Hongmi 2A, unless you do not access the Internet.

However, the mobile version of Hongmi 2 actually supports the 4G and 3G systems of Unicom, which will have some advantages when roaming overseas. The Hongmi 2A doesn't support hardware, so don't expect it when traveling abroad. For Red Rice users, this should not be a problem

You're right. The 2A score is higher

Since only the SoC is different, then run a score to compete. Surprisingly, in Anthare V5.6.1, Hongmi 2A, which is 100 yuan cheaper, scored 23148 points, slightly surpassing Hongmi 2's 20447 points.

We continued to run NenaMark 2 V2.4 to test the graphics capabilities of the two mobile phones. The Hongmi 2A also slightly exceeded the Hongmi 2 at 53.9 fps with a score of 58.6 fps. It seems that the domestic processor is still powerful.

But then again, although the score of Hongmi 2A is a little higher than that of Hongmi 2, they are basically of the same level. Especially when other configurations are identical, the difference in daily application fluency is almost imperceptible, so you don't need to pay too much attention to running points.

Software compatibility of 2A? never mind

Since the compatibility of domestic mobile phone processors is not very good, I specially downloaded several applications to test the compatibility of the Hongmi 2A with domestic processors. In common applications such as QQ, WeChat, Weibo and Youku client, Hongmi 2A can run smoothly, and its performance is basically the same as that of Hongmi 2. Then I downloaded 10 popular and classic mobile games, For example, Plant Battle Zombie 2, National Airplane Battle, Everyday Love Elimination, Wild Racing · Transcendence, Torrent Speedboat 2, etc., the Hongmi 2A has no abnormalities in operation, and there is no flash back phenomenon common in domestic chip smart phones.

It seems that I am worried about the compatibility of Hongmi 2A. This can be attributed to MIUI.

2A consumes more power

Although both mobile phones are equipped with the same 2200mAh battery, the battery life will be more or less different due to different processors. After the phone is fully charged, adjust the screen brightness to the lowest level, run Rapids 2 for one hour and watch Youku videos online for one hour respectively, and then check the remaining power of the two phones. The result is that Hongmi 2A consumes 23% and 15% of the electricity respectively, which consumes about one-third of the total electricity, while Hongmi 2 consumes 14% and 10% of the electricity respectively, which consumes about one-quarter of the total electricity.

If you are a heavy user, Red Rice 2 may give you a longer life. However, it is not easy to tell how different each person's actual use is.

Conclusion: The 100 yuan can be saved

If you are a mobile user, you won't lose anything when you buy the Red Rice 2A: there is almost no software compatibility problem, and the performance (score) is even better. The only thing you need to worry about is that the 2A will consume a little more power.

In a word, the 100 yuan can be safely saved.