If last year's Dimensity 9200 can still play back and forth with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, then this year's Dimensity 9300 is a comprehensive crushing of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which is not only manifested in the general-purpose computing of the processor, but also has excellent performance in the NPU unit.
Vivo used the Dimensity 9200 on its flagship model last year, and the Dimensity 9300 on its entire X100 series this year. Thanks to the excellent performance of the Dimensity series, the vivo X100 Pro has become the best flagship phone in terms of performance, imaging and battery life.
The vivo X100 Pro continues the popular exterior design of the X90 series, but with more personalized performance in the details.
In terms of back design,vivo X100 Pro is still a round image module with a solid color back design,Compared with the X90 series,vivo X100 ProThe image module adopts a centered design,The overall balance has a better visual experience,Cancel the metal bright color waistline on the X90,"Xtreme Imagination""The decorative characters are transferred from the waistline to the lower part of the image module。 At the same time, the outer frame of the image module is designed to be made of metal material with an order of magnitude lower height (vivo is called stainless steel sun ring cloud level), and vertical fine lines are decorated on the metal, so that the overall image module is more advanced in terms of vision and touch.
The white version looks at the back as a whole, with the small blue mark of "ZEISS" and the red "T*" coating logo, although the area occupied is not large, but because it is designed in the black image module, it is still very conspicuous, which strengthens the image characteristics of vivo X100 Pro.
In terms of front panel design, at present, except for Apple and Huawei's products, which need to have some personalized features in the front camera part because of the accuracy of visual recognition, most of the products of other manufacturers are single-hole design, and there is not much differentiation. The biggest difference is in the bezel part of the screen, the front panel of vivo X100 Pro is basically the same width on all four sides, and the lower bezel is slightly wider than the other three sides, but it is also an excellent level among the flagship products of the past two years.
The metal middle frame and the front and rear glass still adopt a symmetrical arc design, and the combination of the middle frame and the front and rear back panels is smooth, which makes the mobile phone feel comfortable when grasping, and the overall feeling is more obvious. The middle frame with a shiny metal surface makes the overall mobile phone have changes and layers in terms of visual experience.
Although the white version of vivo X100 Pro uses glossy glass, which visually gives users a delicate and elegant feeling, but thanks to its technological processing, this white glossy surface does not stick fingerprints, and it is very refreshing for daily use. The overall feeling of the back is somewhat jade-like.
Overall, vivo X100 Pro is as good as ever in terms of appearance design and process manufacturing, although the overall design is average in terms of personalized performance, but this is easier for mass users to accept.
vivo X100 Pro is concerned by users and **, one of the main reasons is the use of MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor, this processor has shown its strength to surpass its peers in the engineering machine stage.
The Dimensity 9300 processor used in the vivo X100 Pro should be able to maintain its position as the performance king for some time.
Compared with the three-plex architecture design of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Dimensity 9300 adopts a 4+4 all-large core design, with a chip integrating 22.7 billion transistors and TSMC's 4nm process. Judging from the development of mobile processors in the past ten years, the chip architecture has changed from the large and small core configuration to the large, medium and small three-plex architecture, nominally for the efficient operation of the processor, but in fact, the current chip can not maintain a sufficiently low power consumption under the technical bottleneck of high performance.
From the perspective of industrial development, the three-plex architecture is not an excellent solution, and the three-plex architecture should be withdrawn from the market under the premise of improving the performance of the chip microarchitecture and improving the process. The Dimensity 9300's large and small core design should be a relatively ideal architecture design, which also shows MediaTek's technical ability to balance high frequency, high power consumption and low power consumption.
The Dimensity 9300 uses the Cortex-X4 ultra-large core for performance and the Cortex-720 core for energy efficiency. Compared with MediaTek's previous generation, the performance has increased by 40%, and the power consumption has decreased by 33%. In the actual test, although the performance of the vivo X100 Pro is not as exaggerated as the official data, it does make people look at the Dimensity processor of the "Fa Ge".
In the Geekbench 6 test, the Vivo X100 Pro's single-core performance can reach up to 2272, and the multi-core performance can reach 7755, which is not only more than 15% stronger than Qualcomm Snapdragon, but also higher than Apple's A17 in terms of multi-core performance. In the Antutu test, although it did not reach the official result of 2.24 million, the overall performance exceeded 2.04 million, and the ultimate performance can reach 2.1 million, which is also about 5% higher than the Snapdragon 8 gen 3.
What is surprising is not only the general-purpose computing performance of the processor, but also in terms of AI performance, the Dimensity 9300 adopts the "Fa Ge" APU790, which provides 8 times the speed of Transformer operator acceleration and supports memory hardware compression. In the AI Benchmark test, the AI performance reached 3034. This AI performance can support the local computing of AI large language models with 13 billion parameters. According to the information disclosed by MediaTek, the Dimensity 9300 can already support large model applications such as stable diffusion, controlnet, and LLM (large language model) on the mobile phone.
As for the game performance of vivo X100 Pro, some digital ** have measured more, in fact, under the current mobile processor performance conditions, the quality of game performance lies more in the game's function call and optimization of chip performance.
The vivo X100 Pro is significantly better than the standards of the most recently launched flagship phones in terms of image module configuration.
The main camera of vivo X100 Pro uses Sony IMX989 one-inch CMOS, 50 million pixels, equipped with a 1G+7P lens combination, and supports optical image stabilization. The telephoto uses a 1 2-inch CMOS with 50 million pixels and an aperture of f25. It also supports optical image stabilization. The ultra-wide angle is f20 aperture 50 million pixel module. It should be noted that this three-focal segment image module uses a new generation of ZEISS T* coating, which can bring better anti-glare effect to the lens.
In terms of operational interaction, the camera interface of the vivo X100 Pro provides 06x (15mm (23mm (46mm.)3x (100mm equivalent) and 10x (233mm equivalent) four default focal lengths, very convenient. It should be noted that in 4Between 3x focal length and 1x focal length, the main camera is responsible for independent imaging, and the 2x default focal length is actually the cropping of the main camera.
Bright light conditionsperformance
When shooting in a well-lit environment, the Vivo X100 Pro's main camera does an excellent job of outsole, with a transparent overall image with little visible noise, natural transitions around the edges of the subject, and proper sharpening. What is more surprising is that compared with the previous vivo's more colorful style, vivo X100 Pro has made great changes to the rendering of light and shadow, and it is easy to create a better light and shadow effect.
When shooting the sunrise scene, the telephoto has obviously adjusted the ** of the picture, the brightness is lowered in the highlights, and the dark part is raised**, and the overall picture is more like the picture feeling that the photographer has adjusted, which may be the tone that many users like. Of course, in such a large light ratio environment, by reducing the highlights and improving the processing of the dark parts, the noise will definitely be improved. Although the Vivo X100 Pro is forgiving, noise in the shadows still affects the purity of the image to a certain extent when shooting sunrises, and there are some color layering in the sky.
Performance in low-light environments
Shooting in low-light environments, the vivo X100 Pro's overall ** is similar to the industry's popular explosion, the overall picture is brighter, especially when shooting with telephoto, due to the relatively high ISO, the picture is not transparent enough, and although the noise and smudge are better than other Android flagships, there is still room for improvement.
The main camera was shot in a low-light environment, and the overall image was on the bright side, and the purity of the image was good, and although there were traces of smearing in the dark details, it was still within acceptable limits.
Compared with the main camera, the night scene performance of the telephoto is more pure, the overall **normal, the details of the highlight part of the picture are fully expressed, and the details of the dark parts are slightly more than those of the main camera.
It should be noted that in low-light environments, vivo X100 Pro defaults to the night scene long** mode, which needs to be manually removed to shoot normally.
Tolerance、Noiseand ** strategy
The Vivo X100 Pro's main camera and telephoto forgiveness are ideal, and in high-contrast environments, thanks to vivo's algorithmic progress, the highlights still retain enough detail, and the shadows are not dead black, and the sense of detail hierarchy is relatively good.
In terms of noise suppression, the Vivo X100 Pro performs a lot better than its predecessor, which is among the best Android flagships in the world. However, in low-light environments, perhaps for better noise suppression, the traces of detail in the shadows are heavier.
vivo X100 Pro's **strategy has made great progress with the previous vivo products,At the same time, compared with Xiaomi、OPPO and other manufacturers' products,Whether it is in bright light conditions or in a low-light environment,vivo X100 Pro**The **strategy is no longer through overexposure to achieve a brighter overall picture,But more emphasis is on passing the normal**,Make the tone of the picture richer,Pay more attention to the atmosphere and transparency of the rendering picture。 This strategy is manifested in the best parameters, no longer like the industry generally by increasing the ISO to increase the brightness of the picture, vivo X100 Pro tries to use a low ISO to get better image quality and reduce noise.
The vivo X100 Pro has 905mm thick, weighs 225g, although it is not the thickest and heaviest in the Android flagship, but the overall grip in the hand, the sense of weight is still obvious. vivo X100 Pro is equipped with a battery with a typical capacity of 5400mAh, which is the largest capacity in the hands of the current flagship, in daily use, there is not much pressure for a day of heavy use, 100W wired fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging, enough power supply for daily use.
The screen of the vivo X100 Pro is an 8T screen of the domestic BOE, with a local brightness of 3000 nits, a resolution of 2800x1260, a pixel density of 452ppi, a 120Hz refresh rate, and LTPO support. The overall screen performs well in terms of brightness and color reproduction. In fact, the progress of domestic screens in recent years has been rapid, and compared with Samsung's screen, there are still advantages in some performance parameters.
In addition, it should be noted that vivo is the second brand to have a large model built into the phone. vivo X100 Pro has a built-in AI blue heart model in its system, which can easily use mobile phones to write, draw, and provide intelligent services.
Overall, at least for a while, the Vivo X100 Pro is the most powerful smartphone product, and it is also a very balanced product in all aspects. It is also because of the balance that in terms of appearance design and personalized functions, vivo X100 Pro follows a configuration concept that is popular in the industry and easy for users to accept, and it is excellent in all aspects, but it is not outstanding.