Smartphones & Tablets | June 8, 2023
Playing Free Fire in 2023 can be a bad idea if you don’t have a mobile phone that can run it smoothly, as the game will perform poorly and experience significant lag. To avoid this, your phone needs to come with a decent processor, or at least one that is powerful enough to run the game without many issues. Fortunately, the Samsung Galaxy A03 and A03s meet this requirement. However, there are doubts about whether this duo is really good for playing Free Fire since they are budget phones with limited features. To address these doubts, let’s discuss how well they perform with this popular Battle Royale game. Can you play Free Fire on the Samsung Galaxy A03 and A03s? Let’s find out…
Free Fire is one of the most popular shooting games for mobile devices. Fortunately, it is not demanding in terms of resources and graphics, so virtually any mobile phone can run it. This includes the Samsung Galaxy A03 and A03s. However, just because a phone can run the game doesn’t necessarily mean it will run well.
The Samsung Galaxy A03 and A03s were introduced in 2021, so they have already been on the market for some time. As we mentioned earlier, they are low-end devices. This means that their specifications are among the most limited, although not necessarily bad. However, they may not be the best for running a game like Free Fire, no matter how lightweight it is. This can negatively impact the gameplay for any user, as the game may experience lag, low frame rates per second (FPS), and, in the worst-case scenario, unexpected crashes during gameplay.
Before discussing whether the Samsung Galaxy A03 and A03s are good for playing Free Fire, let’s go over some details about the processors and memory options they have, as this largely determines the smoothness of the game on both phones.
Firstly, let’s talk about the Galaxy A03. This device comes with a 12-nanometer Unisoc T606 processor that features an eight-core configuration clocked at a maximum frequency of 1.6 GHz. It also has 3 or 4 GB of RAM. As for internal memory, it comes with 32 or 64 GB of eMMC 5.1 storage space.
The Samsung Galaxy A03s, on the other hand, has a less powerful processor. It uses the Helio P35, a 12-nanometer chipset from MediaTek with eight cores clocked at a maximum speed of 2.35 GHz. Despite having cores that operate at a higher clock frequency than the Unisoc T606 found in the Galaxy A03, it offers lower performance, scoring around 100,000 points in AnTuTu (one of the most popular mobile benchmark platforms worldwide), which is below the 170,000 points achieved by the aforementioned Galaxy A03 with its Unisoc T606.
Regarding the memory options of the Galaxy A03s, it also comes with 2 or 3 GB of RAM and 32 or 64 GB of eMMC 5.1 internal storage.
Now, with this in mind, let’s discuss whether they are good for playing Free Fire in 2023. To do this, we have two gameplay videos recorded on both phones. These videos show the smoothness of the game on each device. The first video corresponds to the Galaxy A03, and the second one to the A03s…
In the first video, we can see that the Samsung Galaxy A03 is good for playing Free Fire in 2023. It runs without noticeable lag or FPS drops, even with screen recording simultaneously. It also allows for graphics settings on ULTRA with maximum FPS.
In the second video, we can see how well the Samsung Galaxy A03s performs when playing Free Fire, and the truth is that it does quite well. It runs the game smoothly without lag. It also supports maximum graphics settings.
