OPPO FInd X5 Pro
At last year's science and technology conference, OPPO officially announced that the self-developed NPU chip Mariana MariSilicon X has been successfully tape-out. In just a few months, the first mass-produced smartphone equipped with the chip, the Find X5 series, was officially released.
For the Find series, OPPO has been adopting a high-flying R&D strategy, improving from industrial design, hardware selection and innovative technologies, and gradually iterating on flagship experience.
Today, the Find X5 series with the blessing of Mariana MariSilicon X has made great improvements in the mobile image track, through a dual-core strategy, greatly improving the AI capabilities under dynamic video and still photos, thereby improving OPPO's computational photography capabilities and refreshing the upper limit of OPPO's own imaging capabilities.
Not long ago, titanium media app got the latest Find X5 Pro. Next, let's take a look at what kind of improvement can be achieved by find X5 Pro and OPPO's first self-developed chip, Mariana MariSilicon X from the perspective of products.
Detailed parameters
Exterior design
6.7 inch 120Hz high brush screen
Screens have always been one of the strengths of the Find series, and this Time Find X5 Pro is equipped with a 6.7-inch new generation LTPO2.0 2K screen with a resolution of up to 3216 × 1440, PPI525. At the same time, it also has OPPO's self-developed intelligent dynamic refresh rate technology, which can achieve 1-120Hz non-inductive frequency conversion without opening up third-party resources.
Integrated nanocrystalline ceramic back cover
Since the beginning of the Find X3 series, OPPO has laid a unique one-piece fuselage for the design style of the Find series, and on the Find X5 series, it inherits the same design concept, through the upgraded manufacturing process, and finally realizes the integrated nano-microcrystalline ceramic process. In terms of weight, the Find X5 Pro of the ceramic plate is maintained at 218g, and the rounded body and excellent weight performance will greatly improve the grip when used for a long time
CNC cold engraving technology molding
In order to integrate the lens and the crater platform surface, the Find X5 Pro uses 108 types of geared fit solutions for lens assembly. In the end, the difference between the lens and the surface of the platform is controlled within 0.13mm, and while achieving a stronger sense of unity, the finger transition to the camera part is smoother and smoother, and it also effectively avoids the dirt and dirt hidden in the lens.
OPPO × Hasselblad LOGO
Previously, OnePlus cooperated with the Hasselblad brand to explore more possibilities in mobile phone imaging. As a "big brother" of OnePlus, OPPO has also naturally joined forces with Hasselblad on the Find X5 Pro to further enhance its imaging capabilities. In the back cover of the phone, the LOGOs of OPPO and Hasselblad are very conspicuous.
Bottom USB-C charging connector
At the bottom of the phone, oppo Find X5 Pro cancels the 3.5mm headphone jack, retaining only the USB-C charging interface, next to the interface for speakers.
In terms of battery, in order to meet the higher battery life requirements, the Find X5 Pro has increased the battery from the previous generation of 4500mAh to 5000mAh, which has met the requirements of screen, SoC and 4K video shooting.
In terms of charging, the Find X5 Pro uses a higher 80W super flash charge and 50W wireless flash charge technology, which I will test in detail later in the article.
OPPO Enco X2 headphones
In addition to mobile phones, OPPO also released the Enco X2 flagship TWS headset. This time, OPPO and Tanner worked together to tune the Enco X2 headphones to ensure that the TWS headphones achieve a win-win result of wireless convenience and high-quality sound quality.
At the same time, the famous music master Hisaishi also cooperated with OPPO this time, and specially created an exclusive music mode for Enco X2, which users can choose in their mobile phones.
In terms of noise reduction, OPPO Enco X2 also has a new breakthrough, equipped with a triple-core noise reduction chip with 50% increase in computing power, supporting dual active noise reduction, noise reduction depth up to 45dB at the same time, effective noise reduction bandwidth point up to 4kHz, can effectively reduce the noise of the human voice band that is difficult to deal with by traditional noise-canceling headphones. OPPO Enco X2 also supports intelligent dynamic noise reduction, which can be quickly switched according to different noise environments and usage scenarios.
Smaller design
Compared to enco X, the Enco X2 is smaller in terms of headphone design, and when used with a charging case, it can achieve up to 40 hours of long battery life.
In addition, the Enco X2 has a major change in the operation of the headphones, from the original clicking operation action to the two-finger pinching method of the headphone shaft. This change I feel is a bit difficult to operate daily, and there is no more direct and simple way of tapping and clicking.
Performance & Gaming
Ann Rabbit & Lu Master Running Score
In terms of hardware, the Find X5 Pro is equipped with a new generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 SoC, which adopts a leading 4nm process process, and the CPU architecture is fully upgraded, with a 20% increase in performance and a 30% reduction in power consumption. At the same time, the seventh generation of AI engine, compared with the previous generation, 4 times more powerful AI performance will cover more image processing scenes. The new generation of Adreno GPUs is the first time in five years that the architecture has upgraded the GPU core area by 60%, the rendering speed by 30%, and the energy efficiency by 25%.
At the beginning of the test, the author used the two performance test apps of AnTuTu and Master Lu to test the running score, the former score was 1.007 million, and the latter also ran 945,000. At present, the results of these two running points have belonged to the top existence of the Android camp.
Limit frame stabilization function
For game scenarios, OPPO has been iterating on the game space in ColorOS, and there are many functions to enhance the game experience from active and passive.
In view of the development characteristics of high frame rate and high picture quality in the current game, the function of extreme stable frame is a more important function in the game process, which can automatically adjust SoC performance, data reading and intelligent optimization of various parameters, etc., to ensure the balance between fluency and expression under a long period of game.
"Original God" turns on the maximum image effect of 60Hz
In terms of actual game experience, the author first used the most hardware-eating "Original God" for testing, before the test, all the picture quality options were opened to the highest, and the frame rate was selected up to 60Hz.
At this setting, there is great pressure on the CPU and GPU of the SoC, most smartphones can not run smoothly for a long time, there will be obvious stuttering and frame drop, this time, let's see how the Find X5 Pro performs under the extreme picture effect.
Original God game effect
Open the highest quality of the "Original God", the expression and handheld game has been very close, whether it is details, textures or light and shadow are very good. I believe that in the future, there will be more and more such high-quality mobile games, and the pressure on mobile phone software and hardware can be imagined at that time.
In the Test with the Find X5 Pro, the author played with this effect for more than 1 hour. Throughout the process, the operation is relatively smooth, and there is no obvious frame drop, shadowing and stuttering. Among them, the auxiliary role of the function of limit stable frame is indispensable. And, in the process of scene over-reading and story reading, the speed is very fast, which is inseparable from its top-of-the-line hardware.
Peace Elite 90Hz game effect
Of course, the average person rarely drives "Original God" to the highest quality to abuse their mobile phones, and the author also conducted a performance test on the most commonly touched game quality of "Peace Elite" 90Hz.
In the actual game process, you can also see that the smoothness of the Find X5 Pro remains very good. Compared with "Original God", "Eat Chicken" I play longer, the pressure of the mobile phone in this process is not large, skydiving, multi-person shooting, driving and entering and leaving the house and other scenes, all maintain a smooth picture and operation.
Temperature performance
Although the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 SoC is very powerful in terms of performance, the power consumption is also not small, and the first smartphones equipped with the SoC have a "high fever" situation. In order to solve this common problem, Find X5 Pro uses a combination of ultra-large VC and graphene film and ice skin heat dissipation protective shell to bring heat dissipation protection from the inside out, while the shell temperature fitting technology makes the mobile phone hot become a thing of the past.
After the 1-hour highest picture quality 60Hz game of "Original God", the maximum temperature of the back of the Find X5 Pro is controlled at about 37-38 ° C, and the overall heat dissipation performance is still quite good.
Photography performance
Three-shot lens solution
The Find X5 Pro inherits the idea of dual main camera of the previous generation in terms of camera module, and its wide-angle main camera and ultra-wide angle both use IMX766 sensors. Ultra-wide-angle freeform lenses completely improve the distortion of wide-angle angles. At the same time, it supports 10-bit shooting, and the finished film has rich colors and delicate transitions.
Through the customization of 1G (glass) + 6P (resin) glass optical module, the chromatic aberration of the main lens can be reduced by up to 77.39% compared with the resin lens, and the dispersion coefficient reaches 64.1, which effectively reduces the chromatic aberration and ensures the accuracy of the picture color.
In terms of telephoto, the Find X5 Pro is equipped with a 13-megapixel telephoto lens, which can achieve 5x hybrid optical zoom and 20x digital zoom capability.
Mariana MariSilicon X self-developed chip
In terms of imaging, one of the most important breakthroughs of the Find X5 Pro is the use of OPPO's self-developed Mariana MariSilicon X independent NPU chip, which is the world's first mobile independent NPU using a 6nm advanced process, with four technological breakthroughs: powerful AI computing energy efficiency, leading Ultra HDR, lossless real-time RAW computing, and RGBW Pro that maximizes sensor capabilities.
In other words, the Mariana MariSilicon X will make a bigger improvement in the image performance of the Find X5 Pro, which is co-existing with the SoC and realizes the "dedicated core".
4K + 30 frames + AI color
Mariana MariSilicon X's integrated, self-developed image processing unit MariLumi is uniquely designed for video streaming trends, enabling smooth calculations for 4K video data volumes. Currently, the Find X5 Pro can turn on the AI color function in a 4K 30 frame video format.
The pixel-level processing speed also allows the intelligent HDR fusion algorithm to run on the front end of the unit, eventually bringing the dynamic range of the picture to 20bit 120db (20 TOPS), which is 4 times higher than the Find X3 Pro and reaches the 20bit Ultra HDR super dynamic range.
Shadow Comparison Left: Find X3 Pro Right: Find X5 Pro
The author believes that the role of Mariana MariSilicon X is more in terms of some "recessive genes". For example, high-contrast scenes, dark details, and light details. The picture above is the screenshot I took with the 4K video, the left side is the Find X3, and the right side is the Find X5 Pro.
In the extreme environment of night scenes, zoom in to find that the Find X5 Pro is better than the Find X3 Pro in terms of shadow detail, sharpening and noise control.
Highlights Contrast Left: Find X3 Pro Right: Find X5 Pro
At the same time, in the bright environment, the Find X5 Pro performs better than the Find X3 Pro. Some people may say that this change is not big, and many mobile phones can use algorithms to do it when taking pictures. But don't forget, this is 4K 30 frame video. In the face of video, the computing power pressure of AI should increase exponentially.
At this time, relying solely on the NPU chip in the SoC is often not enough, so OPPO used the Mariana MariSilicon X to further deepen the video shooting performance of the mobile phone, resulting in higher video quality.
Dual OIS stabilization scheme
In addition to the improvement of video quality, find X5 Pro is also equipped with a dual OIS five-axis image stabilization scheme, which realizes dual optical protection of the sensor and lens under the same lens module, further improving the requirements for handheld stable shooting.
Suspension stabilization supports up to ±3° stabilization and ±0. 7 ° rotation stabilization angle, in the x-axis, y-axis, pitch axis, yaw axis, roll axis can achieve stabilization effect, easy to cope with the movement trajectory in various directions. The camera safety shutter can be lowered to 0.5 seconds, which greatly increases the amount of light entered while ensuring clear night photos.
Wide-angle shooting
In terms of still photo shooting, the biggest upgrade of the Find X5 Pro may be the change in color, oppo and Hasselblad have made a big upgrade to its color management system. The IMX766 is color-tuned with the Calibration Scheme of a Hasselblad Medium Format Camera for ultimate color performance.
Low-light shooting
OPPO's Hasselblad hue is not particularly vivid like Huawei and Leica, and the Find X5 Pro pursues a color performance that is closer to the human eye. At the same time, with the advantages of the IMX766 sensor, the light and dark tones in the picture can be restored very accurately, and the imaging effect with better sharpness can be obtained.
Ginger filter
Macro samples
HDR sample
Charging & battery performance
80W Super Flash Charger
As mentioned earlier, find X5 Pro in order to cope with screen, SoC and 4K video and other functions, and to ensure battery life, the battery will be increased to 5000mAh, then the charging speed will become another problem in the mobile phone experience.
To this end, OPPO adopts 80W super flash charging technology to reduce charging time. In terms of chargers, the 80W charger is also larger than the 65W charger.
35 minutes to 100% charge
When the Find X5 Pro is charged with a wired 80W Super Flash Charge, it can charge half the charge in 12 minutes and charge to 100% in 35 minutes. The entire charging time is basically close to the charging time of the Find X3 Pro, and the power can be replenished under the basic daily washing or fragmentation time.
AirVOOC wireless charger
In addition to wired fast charging, the Find X5 Pro has also improved its wireless charging power, up to 50W. Of course, if you want to achieve the maximum wireless charging power, you still need to match the wireless fast charging equipment released by OPPO.
50W wireless flash charge
OPPO's wireless fast charging device adopts a set-up design, with a USB-C charging interface on the back and a cooling fan that controls the temperature below. In the actual use process, as long as the mobile phone is put in, the user can have a good viewing angle, which is very suitable for office scenes.
However, in order to cool the temperature as much as possible during the charging process, the fan noise will be relatively large, and there may not be a lot of perception in the office, if it is a quiet room, it will still be heard. After testing, with 50W wireless charging, the Find X5 Pro can be charged at 100% in 47 minutes.
OPPO Find X5 Pro battery life statistics
Find X5 Pro in LTPO2.0 intelligent dynamic refresh rate help, for the end of the improvement is still more obvious, in 6 types of daily application scenarios, each 30 minutes of test, the overall power consumption of 38%. In heavy use cases, it is not a problem to maintain the use time of day.
summary
Competing for the high-end market is the goal of OPPO in recent years, and the Find series is its best weapon. In recent years, the Find series has continued to explode with the advantages of its own product strength, from Find X3 to Find N, each generation of products has done a good job in improving functions and innovation.
In terms of actual performance, the Find X5 Pro has improved all aspects of performance. At the same time, the upgrade in terms of imagery is also quite obvious, and it definitely belongs to the first echelon in the Android camp.
According to the titanium media App interview with OPPO developers, the current Find X5 Pro shooting ability is not the maximum, and even only uses 30% of the "power" of Mariana MariSilicon X, and in the future, with the in-depth research and development of the OPPO development team, through the upgrade of OTA, there will be better performance.
When mobile phone manufacturers increasingly use self-research methods to enter the deep water area of technology, this also marks the development of China's smartphones in the next stage.
As the first flagship product of OPPO's dual-core strategy, the significance of the Find X5 Pro is a new milestone. With the addition of Mariana MariSilicon X, the upper limit that OPPO can reach on the mobile video track has been further increased. On the other hand, the dual-core strategy will also be the development direction that OPPO will continue to adhere to in the next 2-3 years, and even cover various product lines and sub-brands. (This article was first published on titanium media App, photography, author/Zhong Yi, editor/Xiang Ou)