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iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

Although at the press conference on December 20, iQOO Neo5S was the protagonist of the game, as a sincere work of the 2K price segment, iQOO Neo5 SE must have also attracted much attention.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

As an upgrade of the vitality version, the significance of the iQOO Neo5 SE being incorporated into the iQOO Neo5 digital series is self-evident - on the one hand, it can take into account the cost performance, on the other hand, it has the name of the Neo 5 series. I think everyone is also very curious, after being incorporated into the iQOO Neo5 digital series, what other surprises can iQOO Neo5 SE bring? Let's try this product together.

High-quality CMF design, full of grade

Overall, iQOO Neo5 SE continues the family design of iQOO Neo, but in terms of details, iQOO Neo5 SE has gone out of its own style.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

On the front of the fuselage, the iQOO Neo5 SE is equipped with a 6.67-inch LCD display, which supports a high refresh rate of 144Hz, a maximum brightness of 650nit, and global DC dimming. Whether it's playing a game or watching a video, the iQOO Neo5 SE brings the ultimate look and feel.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

On the back of the fuselage, the iQOO Neo5 SE features a high-quality CMF design that explores more tactile possibilities. For example, the rock crystal white version of the iQOO Neo5 SE in our hands is like a white rock washed out between streams.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

It is worth noting that the three colors of the iQOO Neo5 SE are all frosted crystal textures that mimic the texture of rock, which is smooth and comfortable to the touch. The manufacturing process uses a laser micro-nano engraving process; the back cover is covered with nearly 800,000 delicate crystal-like particles, bringing a more comfortable scrub feel, and more fingerprint-free than the previous generation.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In addition, the iQOO Neo5 SE camera module design also inherits the matrix cloud level design of the previous generation, and the bright surface of the module extension is like a "window" to see the world, and the matte texture of the back cover together forms a contrast effect of virtual and real combination.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 can also tame the original gods

Since it is an iQOO phone, the performance is naturally not what we are worried about. In terms of configuration, iQOO Neo5 SE is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Mobile Platform + Enhanced Edition UFS 3.1.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

The CPU part of the Snapdragon 870 is the A77 architecture Qualcomm Kryo 585, which has a "1+3+4" eight-core design, with a large core frequency of 3.2GHz, a medium core frequency of 2.42GHz, and a small core frequency of 1.8GHz. Compared with the Snapdragon 865, the CPU and GPU performance of the Snapdragon 870 are increased by 10% at the same time, providing users with powerful performance and excellent power consumption, and optimizing the daily use and gaming experience of users in all scenarios.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In terms of performance running scores, iQOO Neo5 SE scored a high score of more than 720,000 in Antutu. In GeekBench 5, it also achieved a good score of 635 points in single core and 2155 points in multiple cores. These excellent scores indicate that the iQOO Neo5 SE is at the top of the mid-market.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In addition, the iQOO Neo5 SE is also equipped with Samsung's fully enhanced V6 UFS 3.1 high-speed memory chip, which is about 5% faster sequential reading than the Neo5. According to our tests, the iQOO Neo5 SE has a storage score of 64,583 points, which is even better than some flagship products.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

I think you also want to see the actual game performance of the iQOO Neo5 SE. In this regard, we let iQOO Neo5 SE run the popular online game "Glory of the King" for half an hour, and the results are as shown above, the frame rate of iQOO Neo5 SE is always stable at 120fps, even if it encounters complex team battles, there is no phenomenon of frame drop and stuttering.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In addition, we continued to let iQOO Neo5 SE run Peace Elite, and as a result, as mentioned in the figure above, the game frame rate of iQOO Neo5 SE still did not fluctuate significantly, and the frame rate was always stable at around 90fps.

Since both Glory of Kings and Peace Elite are not immune to the iQOO Neo5 SE, we continue to have proto-God run with the more hardware requirements and turn on high frame rates.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

As mentioned in the figure above, the average frame rate of the iQOO Neo5 SE can reach 56.2fps, and the second half of the frame rate can hover around 60fps. Considering that most flagship machines will drop frames when running the second half of the original god, it can also be seen that the iQOO Neo5 SE has a strong performance.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In terms of temperature, according to PChome's tests, after running "Original God" for half an hour, the maximum temperature of iQOO Neo5S is 39.9 degrees on the front and 38.3 degrees on the back. Considering that most flagship mobile phones reach about 45 degrees after running "Original God" for a few minutes, it can also be seen from this perspective that the iQOO Neo5S has a strong ability to control the temperature.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

This is mainly because the iQOO Neo5 SE has established a powerful heat dissipation system with a large area of graphite plate and liquid-cooled and heated plate as the core. For example, the area of its liquid-cooled vaporized heating plate is about 1587 square millimeters, which is composed of 100% pure copper and 99.99% pure water, with strong thermal conductivity, and the internal "capillary structure + Fiber power pump" increases the liquid circulation power and dissipates heat faster.

Taking photos at night is also a surprise

Despite the limited cost and excellent performance, the iQOO Neo5 SE does not neglect the camera's features. In terms of parameters, iQOO Neo5 SE is equipped with a 50-megapixel ultra-clear main camera + 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera + 2-megapixel macro camera triple camera module.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship
iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship
iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In the complex indoor light, the iQOO Neo5 SE camera has excellent white balance and color performance, and the indoor scene above is a warm light source, but the iQOO Neo5 SE can show the most beautiful colors of the object. For example, the yellow of the clown above is beautiful.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship
iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In outdoor bright light scenes, the iQOO Neo5 SE camera's white balance and color reproduction capabilities are also excellent. For example, in the high-contrast scene above, the iQOO Neo5 SE avoids the problem of underexposure or overexposure. In addition, in terms of color, the iQOO Neo5 SE can also realistically restore the blue of the sky and the pink of the building.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship
iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship
iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

At night, the iQOO Neo5 SE's camera performance is a pleasant surprise. From the above sample, it is not difficult to find that iQOO Neo5 SE can show the dark light very transparently, carefully observe the dark sky, we have not found obvious noise, it can be said that the night performance of iQOO Neo5 SE is not at all inferior to the flagship machine.

The 4500mAh can also take into account the long battery life

iQOO Neo5 SE is equipped with a large 4500mAh battery, in addition, iQOO Neo5 SE also supports "60Hz/90Hz/120Hz/144Hz/intelligent switching" multi-gear adjustment in all scenarios, which can bring a balance between experience and power consumption.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

PChome measured that after 5 hours of continuous high-intensity use, the iQOO Neo5 SE consumes only 36% of the total power, and there is still 64% of the power left. Translated into our daily intermittent use scenarios, iQOO Neo5 SE should be able to support the normal use of most people for a day.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

In terms of charging, the iQOO Neo5S supports flashcharging of the FlashCharge 55W with a dual-IC single-cell solution. Charge the iQOO Neo5S with a 55W flash charge, charge it for 20 minutes, and charge 54% of the charge, and it takes only 54 minutes to fully charge.

Summary: A new benchmark in the 2K price band

All along, limited by the cost, GF Consumption has only certain luxuries for mobile phones in the 2K price range, such as the need for strong performance, and may not be able to harvest excellent photos.

iQOO Neo5 SE Review: Taming the Metashin's 2K Price Segment Light Flagship

IQOO tells us through iQOO Neo5S that even if the price is not high, but the product can also have comprehensive achievements, such as iQOO Neo5S not only has strong performance, but also takes photos, battery life, etc. are at the first-class level, therefore, we can say that iQOO Neo5S is a value-added "bucket machine" in the 2K price segment.

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