[IT House Evaluation Room]vivo X80 Pro in-depth experience: still, the king of performance images

April is worthy of the “Blue Moon”, not long after the blue factory vivo released the flagship X Note and the first folding screen X Fold, just today, the vivo X80 series also officially met with us.

Adhering to the thinking and exploration of mobile phone images and performance, the vivo X80 series brings more flagship images and performance, and the official is more practical to describe it as “super first-class”.

At the same time, as the second-generation dual-core flagship, the vivo X80 series has been upgraded with a new self-developed chip V1+, and it is perfectly adapted to the flagship processors of Qualcomm and MediaTek. Vivo is also the first self-developed image chip to be compatible with the flagship chip of MediaTek. The mobile phone manufacturers whose platform has completed the adjustment.

The test model in this article is vivo X80 Pro, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8Gen1 version. For the detailed experience of the Dimensity 9000 version, you can click on the IT Home vivo X80 evaluation article.

1. Video

Before the video experience, it is necessary to talk about the video configuration and upgrade points of the vivo X80 Pro.

The first is the imaging hardware specifications, including:

• 5000W pixel exclusive custom GNV super-large bottom main camera, 1/1.3-inch photosensitive area, 1/1.57 lens aperture, OIS optical image stabilization, 1G+6P lens combination;

• 4800W pixel ultra-wide-angle lens, IMX598 sensor, 1/2-inch photosensitive area, 1/2.2 lens aperture;

• 1200W pixel Zeiss portrait micro head, IMX663 sensor, 1/1.85 lens aperture, 1.22μm single pixel size, a new generation of micro head;

• 800W pixel periscope super telephoto, OIS optical image stabilization, 5x optical zoom.

This full-focus imaging system consisting of main camera + portrait + ultra-wide-angle + periscope telephoto has continued from the X30 series to the present.

The four shots are punched to the flesh, and I won’t give you a whole lot of emptiness.

On the X80 Pro, the main camera has been upgraded to a GNV outsole (an upgraded customized version of the GN1, equipped with an exclusive custom color filter). The flagship imaging capabilities of the X Note main camera (both GN1 main cameras). And the X80 Pro uses a customized version of GNV, which is naturally reasonable.

The ultra-wide-angle is the familiar IMX598, and the portrait is also the familiar IMX663 with a 50mm golden focal length, but vivo has put the ultra-wide-angle micro-head on this portrait lens. vivo officially did not explain why the micro-gimbal was repositioned, but on the X80 Pro, the author understands and accepts it very well, because This 2X portrait lens of vivo has a very high imaging quality whether it is shooting people or scenes, and the utilization rate is really too highthe portrait lens uses a micro cloud platform, and night portraits, video portraits, and sports portraits will be improved in all directions.

Finally, there is an 8 million 5X periscope lens, and the sensor is replaced by the Hi847 from the previous OV08A10. The imaging hardware specifications of the vivo X80 Pro are still at the ceiling level at this stage.

Let’s take a look at the Zeiss imaging system.

In the hardware part, the main camera of the X80 Pro uses an ultra-low dispersion high-transparency glass lens (1G+6P), and the Abbe number reaches 81.6 (the higher the value, the lower the dispersion, and the better the image quality). At the same time, the whole lens is certified by Zeiss T* coating, which has stronger anti-glare ability.

In terms of software and algorithms, a new generation of Zeiss lens packs, Zeiss Natural Color 2.0, Zeiss Super Night Scene and Zeiss Cinematic Blur.

The X80 Pro also has a new self-developed chip V1+.

According to the official description, vivo’s self-developed chip V1+ integrates the three major algorithms of 3D real-time stereoscopic night scene noise reduction, MEMC frame insertion and AI super-resolution into hardware packages. It has three characteristics of good scheduling, fast speed and high energy efficiency, and its data throughput speed can be High efficiency is maintained at about 8GB/s; combined with SRAM, energy efficiency is improved by about 300% and power consumption is reduced by about 72%.

This self-developed chip V1+ is not only a professional imaging chip, but also a display performance chip. In terms of image experience, the night vision capability has been upgraded, so you can see the scene in front of you in real time no matter how dark the environment is. In terms of games, the self-developed chip V1+ can also realize the “frame insertion” function.

Finally, it is the full-scene computational photography of vivo X80 Pro, including studio-level textured portraits, large group photos of textured portraits, focus panning, XDR Photo, AI perception lead, 360° horizon image stabilization, horizon correction, etc.

Having said so much, what is the imaging strength of the vivo X80 Pro? Below we analyze the samples in detail.

2. Video experience

(The uploaded proofs are all compressed. Unless otherwise specified, all settings are default, namely: Auto HDR, Zeiss Natural Color Off, AI On)

Portrait proofs:

The vivo X80 Pro brings a new generation of Zeiss lens package, which has newly added Zeiss Cinematic style blur style, which uses a 2.39:1 film aspect ratio, the light spot is a long oval, and also simulates the blue color of the film lens. glare effect.

ZEISS Cinematic style blur also supports video recording.

Zeiss Cinematic Bokeh

Zeiss Cinematic Bokeh

ZEISS Cinematic Bokeh Video Recording (gif, for reference only)

The other four Zeiss lens packs are Zeiss Biotar style blur, Zeiss Distagon style blur, Zeiss Sonnar style blur, Zeiss Planar style blur.

These four lens packs are derived from the classic Zeiss lenses. Take the most obvious “Biotar” as an example. The portrait proofs it shoots have a rotating out-of-focus effect and are quite textured.

Zeiss Biotar Style Bokeh

Zeiss Distagon Style Bokeh

Zeiss Distagon Style Bokeh

Zeiss Sonnar Style Bokeh

Zeiss Planar Style Bokeh

In terms of night scenes, the vivo X80 Pro has two significant advantages. First, the picture is extremely transparent and clean, especially the sky, without any noise.

Secondly, it has a very strong highlight suppression ability and anti-glare ability, and the shooting rate of urban light sources is very high.

Not only the main camera, but even the 8-megapixel periscope lens with not so big bottom and not high resolution has quite good imaging quality in low light environment, and the suppression of highlights is also excellent.

main camera

2X (portrait lens)

5X (periscope lens)

After turning on the night scene mode, thanks to the blessing of V1 +, the “night vision device” ability of the vivo X80 Pro is also very prominent. However, in some scenarios,Night scene mode proofs have a feeling of “excessive force”the sharpness of the picture is too high, it seems a bit unreal,This kind of “excessive force” also occasionally occurs in HDR proofs.

2X (normal night scene)

2X (turn on night scene mode)

Main camera (night scene mode)

2X (Night Mode)

5X

Daytime imaging proofs:

In the daytime proofs, the vivo X80 Pro is still at the flagship level, and there is nothing to say, whether it is color, exposure, white balance and detail performance, there is no problem.

In terms of look and feel, it is still the memory color of vivo, and the color is cool and bright, which is very comfortable.

In some environments with large light ratios, the vivo X80 Pro still shows excellent HDR capabilities, including the main camera and ultra-wide-angle, with quite good dynamic range performance, and the proofs are rich in light and dark details.

main camera

Ultra wide angle

main camera

Main camera (macro)

Ultra wide angle

Main camera (backlight)

Ultra wide angle (backlight)

2X (portrait lens)

Ultra wide angle (backlight)

5X (periscope)

If you don’t like this “memory color” style, you can also turn on Zeiss Natural Color. On vivo X80 Pro, vivo has upgraded Zeiss Natural Color 2.0. According to the official description, its ΔE is reduced by 15.5% on the basis of the previous generation, and further Converged by 8.3%.

In terms of look and feel, after turning on Zeiss Natural Color 2.0, the colors are much lighter, but the colors are more realistic and tend to be seen by portraits.

Sample comparison:

(Default on the left, Zeiss Natural Color on on the right)

For time reasons, such as the large group photo of textured portraits brought by vivo X80 Pro, focus panning, 360° horizon image stabilization, horizon correction, and AI perception engine will not be demonstrated here.

In addition, I want to explain the AI ​​perception engine, which brings “intelligent white plus black minus”, which is very practical. For example, the author often shoots conference PPT, and some highlight parts need to manually lower the exposure, while “intelligent white plus black minus” This operation is omitted, and the user only needs to press the shutter.

More proofs:

Ultra wide angle (backlight)

main camera

portrait

main camera

main camera

main camera

3. Appearance design

In terms of design, the X80 Pro is bolder and more radical than the X70 Pro+.

First of all, in terms of color matching, vivo X80 Pro provides three colors: black, holiday, and journey. Among them, holiday is a very eye-catching turquoise, while journey is full of orange, with such a bright and jumping color on a high-end machine, Vivo’s grasp of color naturally has some skills.

In terms of craftsmanship, vivo X80 Pro provides three types of fluorite AG, plain leather and ceramics. IT Home gets the journey color matching, which adopts high-end plain leather technology. The reason why the word “high-end” is emphasized is because this The texture of the seed skin is very good, very moist, like an extra layer of skin-friendly material,There is no plastic feeling of “dry dry sand” that is common in plain leather.

In terms of design, the most eye-catching part of the vivo X80 Pro is the camera part. It adopts the design of “square and circle”, which we have seen on vivo X Note and X Fold in advance. The square ceramic sheet and the circular camera module float above the cloud steps, three of which are cameras. The small blue mark with Zeiss is in the circular lens group, the other square periscope is located in the lower left corner of the square ceramic sheet, the right side is the fill light, and the silk screen information such as Zeiss, and the rest is largely left blank.

As for whether it looks good or not, it’s up to the beholder here. But it must be emphasized that the recognition of the vivo X80 Pro is really full.

detail design:

In terms of size and weight, the dimensions of the vivo X80 Pro are 164.57*75.30*9.10mm, and the weight is 215g (journey). The weight is acceptable, but the thickness of the body is still there. After all, there are not many flagship machines with thin bodies. .

The vivo X80 Pro uses a 6.78-inch Samsung AMOLED 2K E5 curved screen with a “diamond arrangement”, resolution 3200X1440, 517PPI, supports 10bit color gradation, supports LTPO free frame rate and so on.

This screen has also been certified by Display Mate 15 records, including the highest contrast ratio, the smallest color error and so on.

All in all, this is a top-of-the-line screen that you can’t fault.

Under the screen, there is a large area of ​​ultrasonic fingerprints. The fingerprint recognition position is higher, and the thumb pressing position is more reasonable.

The fingerprint recognition area of ​​the vivo X80 Pro is consistent with the ultrasonic fingerprint on the vivo X Note. The larger unlocking area brings a higher possibility of blind unlocking, and even if the finger is attached to the edge of the recognition area, it can also quickly After completing the unlocking, the unlocking basically does not require a subconscious “glance” positioning, and it can be unlocked basically by picking it up.

In addition, the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition of vivo X80 Pro only needs to be pressed once when entering a fingerprint for the first time, and there is no light for unlocking at night, and it also supports the quick start of applications (such as health codes, etc.). In terms of security, it also newly supports two-finger entry into the privacy space, two-finger application encryption and two-finger payment verification.

(In terms of configuration, the 80W C-port fast charging head is well received, and the protective case with the same texture as the fuselage is well received)

4. Performance experience

In terms of core configuration, this time the vivo X80 Pro uses the Snapdragon 8 and Dimensity 9000 dual flagship versions. Among them, 8+256GB is the Snapdragon 8 version, 12+256GB, 12+512GB is the Snapdragon 8 version & Dimensity 9000 version .

IT Home got the Snapdragon 8, 12+512GB version.

In addition, the vivo X80 Pro has a built-in 4700mAh battery with dual-cell 80W wired flash charging, dual-cell 50W wireless flash charging, and 10W reverse wireless charging. Other hardware configurations include 7-layer VC liquid cooling, large-volume X-axis linear motor, independent HiFi chip, full-scene NFC, stereo dual speakers, smart remote control, IP68 waterproof and dustproof, USB3.1, and more.

Snapdragon 8 (Snapdragon 8Gen1) is familiar to everyone, this oneandroidThe strongest SoC in the camp can be said to be an old friend of the Blue Factory. After all, the vivo X80 Pro is the Blue Factory’s fourth Snapdragon 8 flagship.

Let’s take a look at the running points:

The first is the AnTuTu benchmark. The overall score of the vivo X80 Pro is 1,004,765, with 229,481 points for the CPU and 438,328 points for the GPU.

GeekBench 5, single-core 1235 points, multi-core 3536, the performance is also very good.

(Part of the SoC GeekBench 5 running points, for reference only)

The 3D Mark Wild Life test, which pays more attention to GPU running points, has a total score of 9831 and an average frame rate of 58.9.

(3D Mark Wild Life)

After 20 consecutive rounds of 3D Mark Wild Life, the stability of the vivo X80 Pro reached 73.4%. This score is on the upstream level among many Snapdragon 8 models. From this, it can be easily judged that the performance tuning of the vivo X80 Pro is still relatively high. extreme.

(20 rounds of 3D Mark Wild Life)

In terms of charging, the vivo X80 Pro 4700mAh battery with 80W wired flash charge only takes 36 minutes from 1% to fully charged. In the first four minutes, it can maintain up to 70W of power, and the middle half is maintained at around 35W-40W.

It should be emphasized that the trickle time of the X80 Pro in the later stage is extremely short. When the UI shows 100% power, the battery is basically fully charged, so these 36 minutes are also really fast, and there is no moisture.

Let’s take a look at the game performance of vivo X80 Pro.

IT House chose the highest quality “Yuan Shen” for 30 minutes of actual measurement.

(Yuanshen picture quality selection is as shown above)

The resolution of vivo X80 Pro is 2K by default, the performance mode is turned on, and the highest image quality is loaded with “Genshin Impact” for 30 minutes, the image quality is full, and the motion blur is turned off.

The test results show that the average frame rate of vivo X80 Pro is 54.5fps.

As shown above, in the 30-minute Genshin Impact game,vivo X80 Pro does not experience frame lock,The basic whole process fluctuates around 55fps, even in battle scenes, there is rarely a cliff-like frame drop. At the same time, in the game experience, there are very few frame drops visible to the naked eye, including scenes such as big moves, battles, etc.

(vivo X80 Pro Genshin Impact 30 minutes frame rate 54.5fps)

The vivo X80 Pro is also one of the few 8Gen1 models tested by the author that maintains a high frame rate for a long time in the Genshin Impact game.

Let’s look at the core diagram again:

As shown in the figure below, in the 30-minute game, the Cortex-X2 ultra-large core (clocked at 3.0GHz) of the Snapdragon 8 is basically kept at around 1.8Ghz; the three Cortex-A710 medium cores (clocked at 2.5GHz) are also 1.8Ghz fluctuates up and down.

(30-minute core fluctuations of vivo X80 Pro Genshin Impact)

These four cores, although they did not reach the top, butIt is also quite exciting in the “Yuan Shen” game, and always maintains a fighting state.

Relatively aggressive tuning also brings higher power consumption, as shown in the figure below,The average power consumption of the Genshin Impact of the vivo X80 Pro reaches about 7W(3.12W*2).

(vivo X80 Pro Genshin Impact 30 minutes average power consumption)

For example, the power consumption of “Genshin Impact” is also 30 minutes. The X Note tested by IT House before is only 5W, while the vivo X80 Pro reaches 7W.

With the aggressive (relatively speaking) performance tuning of the vivo X80 Pro, the high temperature of the body is also inevitable. IT Home Measured The highest temperature of vivo X80 Pro reached 46.5°Ccentered at the top of the screen.

The performance tuning of the vivo X80 Pro is different from the previous X series products. In the past, the performance release of the X series took a “conservative” route, while the X80 Pro was the exact opposite, especially in the performance release under high load. radical.

It should be noted that the above tests are all completed in the “extreme performance mode”.

The built-in V1+ chip of the vivo X80 Pro is also a “game chip”. In the “Genshin Impact” game, it provides the function of optimizing power consumption. In this mode, the GPU only needs to render 45 frames, and then on the basis of 45 frames The frame rate is doubled through V1+ to achieve a game effect similar to 90 frames.

Before frame insertion, the GPU needs to render 60 frames, and after frame insertion, the GPU only needs to render 45 frames, so theoretically, the power consumption is reduced after frame insertion.

But after inserting the frame, the picture will go through V1+, so it willThere is touch delayand the screen will become blurry.

It should be noted that the frame insertion effect is affected by the body temperature. When the body temperature is too high, the frame insertion will not take effect.

In this mode, IT Home tested “Genshin Impact” for about 10 minutes, with other test conditions unchanged, and turned on “Optimized Power Consumption” in the magic box exhaled from the sidebar of the game.

As shown in the figure below, in the first 7 minutes or so of the “Genshin Impact” game, frame insertion has been in effect, and the stable frame rate and high-frame game experience brought by frame insertion are quite obvious. The frame rate diagram below also illustrates this. , GPU rendering is basically stable at 45 frames throughout the whole process, and even if it encounters a battle scene, it rarely drops frames.

After 7 minutes, as the temperature of the body rises, the frame rate reaches about 55fps, which also means that the frame insertion has ended.

However, in the test of IT House, it was found that the power consumption advantage after frame insertion is not obvious, and the power consumption of 6.9W is basically the same as the 7W without frame insertion.

Considering the relatively aggressive performance tuning of vivo X80 Pro, the advantages brought by the self-developed chip V1 + low power consumption will be more obvious in games such as “Honor of Kings” and “Peace Elite”, such as “Honor of Kings”, You can insert the game from 90 frames to 120 frames, with high frame rate and low power consumption.

5. System experience

In the system part, IT House has already experienced in-depth experience in the evaluation of vivo X Note and X Fold. Here is a brief introduction to vivo’s exclusive quantum kit.

“Quantum Kit” is an application for the PC side. It integrates vivo’s atomic notes, calendars, photos, atomic reading and other functions. Editing anywhere on mobile phones, PCs, and tablets can automatically synchronize.

With the help of the “Quantum Kit”, the cross-device interconnection between mobile phones and PCs can be realized, and the two devices can also drag and drop content from each other, including support for dragging and dropping applications such as photo albums, atomic notes, and WeChat.

The quantum kit can realize the collaboration between mobile phones, PCs, and tablets. It should be emphasized that the quantum kit not only supports Windows computers, but also rarely supports MacOS.

After downloading the quantum kit on the PC side, you can also let the vivo X80 Pro screen to the PC side to achieve “multi-screen collaboration” without brand restrictions. However, in terms of experience, the current version still has a lot of room for optimization, such as the operation is slightly stuck, and photos only support one-way transmission.

(vivo X80 Pro and MacBook Pro “multi-screen collaboration”)

Summarize:

Starting from the X30 series, the X series began to emphasize the flagship image strength of all focal lengths. Now, the lens module of all focal lengths has become the standard configuration of the vivo X series flagship. Along with the X50 series’ first micro-cloud platform, X60 series joined Zeiss for the first time to create an imaging system, and X70 series first released self-developed imaging chip V1. The evolution of several generations of products has allowed the vivo X series to continue to lead the imaging track, and now the flagship imaging It has also become the most significant label and brand potential of vivo.

The new vivo X80 Pro is still a flagship imaging “bucket” machine that focuses on imaging and does not have any shortcomings in performance hardware. Of course, it is still far from enough to describe the vivo X80 Pro with a bucket machine. Independent chip development, lenses, coatings, highly customized sensors, and full-link upgrades from imaging hardware to algorithms make the vivo X80 Pro enough in the imaging field. “Super first-class” also gives vivo a higher voice and control in the field of imaging.

It should be emphasized that although there is no “+” in the name, in terms of image specifications and configuration performance, the vivo X80 Pro is secretly “literary”. In addition, it is rumored that this year Q3 vivo will also release a more powerful image flagship. The vivo X80 Pro has already reached this height, but vivo obviously still has a hand.

All in all, the vivo X80 Pro is a very worthwhile high-end flagship machine. It will bring you different surprises in terms of image, performance, games and other aspects.