OnePlus 15 Revealed In Real World With 165 Hz Ultra-Fast Refresh Rate

OnePlus concluded the “OnePlus Gaming Conference 2025” on 26th September 2025, where it officially unveiled the OnePlus 15. The company announced that the device supports a 165 Hz ultra-fast refresh rate, making it compatible with popular titles like Call of Duty Mobile and League of Legends.

Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite/Extreme 5th Generation chipset, the OnePlus 15 promises stable, high-end performance, especially for gaming.

OnePlus 15 Chipset
OnePlus 15 Chipset

The OnePlus 15 real-world unit features enhanced engineering across the CPU, GPU, and NPU, boosting the screen’s refresh rate from 120 Hz to 165 Hz.

OnePlus 15 Gaming Confrence Refresh Rate
OnePlus 15 Gaming Confrence Refresh Rate (Image Credit: ITHome)

Moreover, OnePlus claims that the new technology shortens the frame refresh interval from 8 milliseconds to 6 milliseconds, reduces overall system delay by 10 milliseconds, lowers picture latency by another 10 milliseconds, and decreases picture ghosting by 27%.

OnePlus 15 Gaming Conference 2025.
OnePlus 15 Gaming Conference 2025 (Image: ITHome)

Additionally, the OnePlus gaming feature “Fengchi Gaming Core” will receive three major upgrades. It will leverage the NPU to deliver stable frame rates, use the GPU for faster and smoother image rendering that loads within milliseconds, and rely on the CPU’s upgraded architecture to process gaming sessions more quickly and seamlessly.

OnePlus 15 Gaming Compatibility
OnePlus 15 Gaming Compatibility (Imge Credit: ITHome)

The new triple-chip coordination delivers stable optimisation, and compared to the previous Fengchi Gaming Core, it’s clear that this is OnePlus’s best engineering yet. It houses 421.4 MB/sec asset compression and 14.1 Mpixels/sec ray tracing, making its cores more efficient for stability.

OnePlus 15 Three-Chip Engneering
OnePlus 15 Three-Chip Engneering

In addition, the Adreno 840 is shaping the gaming quality better than before with a 1200 MHz frequency that provides clear visuals during gaming and frame changes.

OnePlus 15 Gaming Confrence Refresh Rate
OnePlus 15 Gaming Confrence Refresh Rate (Image Credit: ITHome)

The OnePlus 15 is expected to come with LPDDR5X memory along with a 4×16-bit BUS and 24GB RAM so it can handle all multitasking operations seamlessly. Also, the phone is expected to come with 8K recording resolution for the videography.

The OnePlus 15 delivers the best-ever gaming performance, highlighting remarkable engineering through its triple-chip coordination. It will launch in China first, with the global release still under wraps; however, there’s a strong chance it will arrive in international markets within a month of the China launch.

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