iQOO Neo9 Full Review It is a game machine, and it is also a thin and light machine

Thinness and performance, these two words seem to be like fish and bear's paws in the mobile phone circle. The former does feel great in the hand and has a sleek design, but often the performance is just mesThe latter can indeed play games, but various piles of materials make the weight of the mobile phone basically say goodbye to less than 200g.

So, is there a product that can do it both ways?iQOO's recently released iQOO Neo9 seems to meet this requirement, with a second-generation Snapdragon 8 processor and a self-developed gaming chip, Q1, while still maintaining 7With a thickness of 99mm and a lightweight weight of 190g, let's take a look at it in action with me.

1. Appearance: A long-lost light and thin feel.

In terms of color matching, the iQOO Neo9 provides users with three versions, the marine blue color is a glass back panel, and the back cover adopts a new generation of diffuse reflection texture and nano-level optical coating, which is warm and cool both in appearance and feelIn the other two colors, Fighting Black is a classic fluorite AG glass process, deep and calm;The red and white soul is made of two-color and double-grain plain leather stitching, and the two sides are made of carbon fiber and skin feel lychee texture, and the feel is also different. The middle frame of the fuselage adopts the current popular right-angle design, with front and rear chamfers, to ensure that users do not have awkward hands when holding the game horizontally, and it can be easily held with one hand.

Different from the large module design that is currently popular in the mobile phone market, the rear camera module of iQOO Neo9 adopts a relatively simple "exquisite square circle" design, which only occupies 762%。The two lenses are placed up and down, which provides a sense of order while being concise, and is quite refreshing visually.

Flipping to the front of the phone, the iQOO Neo9 uses a piece of 15K 144Hz 8T all-weather super sensitive screen, of which 8T refers to the circuit design of the screen, fast response, low power consumption, support 1-144Hz flagship-level LTPO adaptive gaming high brush, can bring 1Hz ultra-low power screen standby when displaying static effects, and can also set 90Hz-144Hz intelligent dynamic high brush when playing games, how to operate smoothly.

So what is "all-weather super sense"?In bright environments such as daytime, this screen supports 1400nit global excitation brightness, with 15K ultra-clear resolution makes the picture full of details;There is also high-frequency PWM dimming up to 2160Hz in low-light environments such as night, and the flagship-level full-scene eye protection strategy can accurately judge the ambient light, making brightness adjustment more accurate and reducing eye fatigue.

In mobile esports, every millisecond can be crucial. iQOO neo9 supports ultra-sensitive touch technology, which can reduce the delay of touch clicking and sliding, and ensure that the operation is easyThanks to the wet hand control function, sweaty hands do not affect the fierce team battle.

Overall, the design of the iQOO Neo9 is simple but not simple, with a weight of 190g and a minimum thickness of less than 8mm, which is undoubtedly a clear stream in the current market.

2 Performance: With the blessing of Q1 chip, smooth and stress-free gaming.

Immediately after that, we let the iQOO Neo9 run a score as usual, and still chose our old friends Antutu and 3DMark for testing. It can be seen that Antutu's score reached 1698701 points, and the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme score reached 3724 points, which is basically the mainstream score of the current flagship processor.

Of course, the running score is only a theoretical value, and the actual game measurement is the main thing. Since the iQOO Neo9 is equipped with the second-generation Snapdragon 8 processor, we directly tested it with Genshin Impact, which has a heavy load in daily use, and used a very high +60 fps setting for 30 minutes in terms of image quality, and the specific performance is as follows:

As you can see, in the 30-minute test, the average frame rate of the iQOO Neo9 reached 60fps, with only a small fluctuation in some scenes, and the overall game experience is very smooth, which is very worthy of the attention of heavy fans of "Genshin Impact".

Of course, for mobile phones with flagship chips, performance itself is not a problem, how to make the performance release more durable and stable is the key to affecting the user experience, and heat dissipation is undoubtedly a crucial point. After all, the hot body will not only greatly reduce the grip experience, but also seriously affect the smoothness of the picture. If you want to improve the heat dissipation effect, stacking is naturally the simplest and most direct method.

The iQOO Neo9 is equipped with 6043mm?VC vapor chamber covers the main heat source to enhance CPU heat diffusion and spread evenly. The use of 3D stainless steel stamping VC, light and fast heat dissipation, the gas circulation of the steam chamber is increased by 176% and 30% lighter. The exclusive double-layer capillary power pump technology improves the liquid circulation capacity of the core CPU, and the heat transfer effect is increased by 26%. Graphite heat dissipation film is added to the inside of the screen to reduce the temperature rise of the screen driver chip, and the temperature of the screen contact area is optimized up to 2 compared to the previous generation.

In order to test the heating of iQOO Neo9, I used iQOO Neo9 to play Genshin Impact for half an hour in HD settings, and measured the temperature of my phone after the game and recorded it, and the results are as follows:

After running the game for half an hour, you can feel that the back of the iQOO Neo9 is not seriously heated during the whole game, and it will not affect the operation in the game battle.

If you still want the game screen to be clearer and smoother, then it is the turn of another core of iQOO Neo9 - the self-developed e-sports chip Q1 to come into play. The combination of the Q1 chip and iQOO's self-developed e-sports engine brings users three "black technologies": game super-resolution technology, game super-frame technology and frame perception technology 20。

Many mobile gamers may have heard of the game super-resolution, Q1 can improve the sampling efficiency by 4 times, increase the execution efficiency by 30%, and reduce the power consumption by 10% through the parallel rendering algorithm. Taking another large-scale heavy-duty mobile game "Genshin Impact" as an example, the in-game image quality is full of 720p, and after turning on the game Super Score, it can be increased to up to 1440p, and the picture details are visibly improved.

The Q1 can also efficiently concurrency with the second-generation Snapdragon 8, with the help of frame interpolation compensation technology, which can reduce the power consumption load while maintaining the 60 fps perception, greatly reducing the power consumption of the game, and doubling the battery life of the gameAlternatively, you can directly interpolate the frames on top of the 60 frames to achieve the unique experience of Genshin Impact at 144 frames.

In the two popular games of "Genshin Impact" and "Peace Elite", iQOO Neo9 also specially customized the super-resolution and super-frame concurrent mode, the image quality and frame rate are all full, which can achieve the clearest and smoothest playing experience.

In the 2nd generation Snapdragon 8 processor, enhanced LPDDR5+ overclocked version UFS31. With the blessing of the self-developed gaming chip Q1, the performance of iQOO Neo9 has surpassed the vast majority of models on the market.

3 Image: The same outsole as the image flagship, supported by NICE image algorithm.

First of all, the configuration, iQOO Neo9's image module adopts a 50 million pixel main camera + 8 million pixel ultra-wide angle dual camera combination, which basically covers the shooting needs of common scenes in life. Among them, the IMX920 Sony outsole main camera of the same flagship supports VCS bionic spectrum technology, which can achieve better noise performance and color reproduction. The following is a sample of the actual shot, which can be used as a reference for everyone:

It can be seen that even in low-light scenes, thanks to the blessing of the main camera and OIS optical image stabilization, there is no blur caused by shake in the overall picture. At the same time, we can also be pleasantly surprised to see that the night scene sample does not have the problem of ghosts and glare in the face of various complex lighting environments. This should be due to the combination of the self-developed NICE algorithm and the RAWHDR algorithm, which largely suppresses the impact of glare on the perception of night scenes.

Overall, with the blessing of customized sensors, self-developed image algorithms, and OIS optical image stabilization, iQOO Neo9 can meet the needs of users to take photos in many scenes, which is more than enough for recording life.

4. Battery life: 5160mAh battery + 120W flash charge, which can be charged quickly after a long time.

As you can see from the results, after 5 hours of testing, the remaining power of iQOO neo9 is 51%, and the overall performance has reached the mainstream level, which is more than enough for users to use for a day.

Of course, it's not enough to have a long battery life, you also need to charge quickly enough to ensure that you can play at any time. The iQOO Neo9 naturally takes this into account, and its 120W ultra-fast flash charging belongs to the first echelon in the same price range. According to the actual measurement, with the original charger and data cable, the iQOO neo9 can charge from 1% to 100% in 23 minutes, and to 54% in 10 minutes, with excellent charging speed.

In addition to fast charging, iQOO neo9 also takes into account the problem of battery life, and its intelligent charging strategy can intelligently identify user charging scenarios and match different charging strategiesAt the same time, the full charge voltage and maximum charging current are reduced according to the aging degree, so as to reduce battery loss and prolong service life.

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