If you use 6 words to describe the nearest mobile phone circle, it must be "Taming the Snapdragon, Waiting for heaven". Today, the first mobile phones equipped with the Tianji 9000 have gradually come to us, and the Redmi K50 Pro is one of them.
▲ Hereinafter referred to as K50 Pro
The inseparable Tianji 9000, the performance is indeed enough to be flagship
As a Buddhist player with a daily round of Glory of Kings, I'm quite happy with the new Generation Snapdragon 8. Until the end of the season in these few days, the rush to the king found that a flagship model equipped with Snapdragon 8 would be locked to 90 frames when playing two rounds of "Glory of the King". Looking at the 27°C thermometer on my desk, I suddenly realized: "The distance between Snapdragon 8 is not bad" and "Tianji 9000 Come on", it is just a March Guangzhou.
As MediaTek's flagship chip this year, the paper parameters of The Tianji 9000 are really good, made of TSMC 4nm process, and the gpu of the new architecture is still different from the Snapdragon 8, but it is also 35% higher than the previous generation; CPU performance and power consumption are better than the Snapdragon 8. In theory, the daily use of the Tianji 9000 is smooth and power-saving, and the high-load scenario will be slightly inferior to the Snapdragon 8, but it is more than enough compared to the Snapdragon 888+.
We tested the K50 Pro (Performance Mode) at room temperature, and the overall performance really deserves the flagship name. Theory is so, but what about practice?
Before the test began, to explain a problem, after we got the K50 Pro, Redmi pushed several system updates, and the performance was slightly different. The following tests are based on the first version of K50Pro after its release (MIUI 13.0.6), if you get the phone, remember to upgrade the system at the first time to get the best performance.
After a 30-minute test of the original god extreme picture quality, the game screen resolution is 760×342.
Each flagship model advertises the 60-frame stable operation of "Original God", but the K50 Pro is the first Android phone that I have actually experienced, and the extreme picture quality can fluctuate around 60 frames. Except for the occasional plot dialogue and map teleport jumps, the frame rate is almost a straight line, with an average frame count of 55.3. The 30-minute game also has almost no frequency drops and is very stable.
This frame rate performance was much better than I thought, so I was followed by a 1-hour extreme quality "Original God" test.
Probably because the continuous test has temperature protection, this time the results are not so prominent, but there are still about 50 frames. And for an hour in the game, the K50 Pro has been trying to run up to 60 frames, and there is no frame lock because of temperature.
In the 1-hour game, the temperature on the back of the phone reaches a maximum of 47.2 °C, located on the right side of the camera, and the temperature of the fuselage is obviously felt in the left hand.
I think Redmi is also very confident in the performance of "Protoshin", and this time it also launched the Redmi AirDots 3 Pro in cooperation with "Protoshin", which integrates the image of the game character Kerry into the headphone design, and can also see the exclusive custom pop-up window when connected to the mobile phone.
The K50 Pro also supports the high-quality vibration of Peace Elite, and the vibration feedback of the X-axis linear motor is very crisp, of course, there is still some distance from the vibration performance of the K50 esports version.
We also tested Honor of Kings, but it seems that because of the game version, it can only be turned on to 60 frames. The full frame of the whole process is naturally not a problem, but it is obvious that it has not exerted the full strength of the Tianji 9000.
Overall, the Tianji 9000 processor on the K50 Pro performs well every day, and Redmi's scheduling of this chip is more aggressive than calculated, and it is also comparable to the Snapdragon 8 in high-load scenarios, slightly exceeding my expectations.
The gaming performance is excellent, and the K50 Pro's charging battery life is also outstanding. The surging P1, the charging chip that made its debut on the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, also came to the K50 Pro this time. 120W fast charging and 5000mAh single cell large battery make battery life as good as charging speed. After turning on the fast charge acceleration in the "Settings > Power Saving and Battery > Battery", the actual measurement took only 23 minutes to complete 0~100% charging, the maximum mobile phone 43.2 °C, the hottest spot on the right side of the camera.
We also conducted a marathon video playback test, starting at 0 o'clock, moderate brightness, medium volume, using station B to play 1080P streaming video, get up in the morning, "Friends" has played to the 24th episode (more than 8 hours on the bright screen), and the K50 Pro still has less than 2% of the battery. More than enough for a day of daily use.
Overall, although it did not hang the name of "game phone", but with the blessing of Tianji 9000, with UFS 3.1 flash memory and LPDDR5 memory, the performance of Redmi K50 Pro can also be completely broken with the game phones on the market. But to be worthy of the name "Pro", performance alone is not enough.
The "unimaginable" K50 Pro is fierce enough, but not extreme enough
What kind of configuration should be available for Android's top flagship phones in 2022? My answer is: Snapdragon 8/ Tianji 9000 processor, 2K 120 Hz high brush screen, excellent imaging system, excellent audio and video performance, long battery life fast charge, as well as wireless charging, on-screen fingerprint recognition, X-axis vibration motor, dustproof and waterproof, if the appearance is more colorful, it is better.
Use the configuration of the Redmi K50 Pro to cover the above answer, and you will find that it is flagship enough, but not extreme enough.
First of all, the appearance, K50 Pro has ink ( ), silver (silver), magic mirror (blue) and glow (green) four pairings, we have the depth of this glow green in our hands, three cameras are arranged in a circle, but under the outer circle rectangular frame is somewhat decent. You can say that it is very suitable for daily use, or you can say that its appearance is slightly dull.
If I had to choose, the color of the ink feather with the lithography texture should be more attractive.
From this mediocre back to the front of the phone, the 6.67-inch, 2K (3200×1440) resolution, 120Hz refresh rate AMOLED straight screen, coupled with almost four sides of the equal width of the bezel, this front is considered a top level. However, remember to turn on the "extremely clear display" in the settings, between longer battery life and screen performance, I will not hesitate to choose the latter.
The K50 Pro's screen is also displayMate A+ certified, Dolby Vision, HDR10+ high dynamic range, P3 color gamut, all of which are available.
The hardware specifications are enough, and the software features are not missing. K50Pro built-in 16,000 levels of automatic brightness adjustment, true color display, global DC dimming and other functions, when in use, you can adjust the screen brightness and color temperature more smoothly and naturally. However, even if there is anti-strobe dimming (DC dimming), do not use the phone for a long time in poor ambient light.
In terms of imaging, the K50 Pro uses the Samsung HM2 as the main camera triple camera combination, and also supports OIS optical image stabilization, which has a higher film completion rate. This 1/1.52-inch sensor features pixel nine-in-one, making it more meaningful to synthesize a 12-megapixel performance with a single pixel area of up to 2.1μm outsole than a 100-million-pixel photo.
In the impression, taking a photo of 100 million pixels, the phone has to react for a while. I don't know whether it is the performance of the Tianji 9000 or redmi has been tuning this sensor for a long time, K50 Pro is still quite fast when shooting 100 million pixels, and it can basically be taken as you go. It is also a good choice to increase the point resolution with 100 million pixels during the day.
▲ The sample is compressed
As the first phone to combine 100 million pixels with optical image stabilization, I also have some expectations for the K50 Pro's handheld night performance. In the actual experience, after opening the night mode, the handheld 2 to 3 seconds film rate is very high, the overall effect is not bad, not simply to improve the brightness of the night scene, the sky is not any noise, but occasionally can not suppress the highlight.
In addition, the K50 Pro also supports electronic stabilization for video shooting, reducing jitter and jelling effects during recording. However, it may be because of the engineering machine, the actual experience of the effect is general, and the unopened stabilization has improved, but the gap is not large. If you want to shoot video with the K50 Pro, it's more important to keep your hands steady than to turn on stabilization.
▲ Super Stabilization is not turned on
▲ Turn on Super Stabilization
In addition to the main camera, the 2-megapixel macro lens and the 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens can also take some interesting photos when used properly. Coupled with a fully upgraded magic elimination and support for night magic day, the K50 Pro camera is still very interesting.
▲ Magic day change
Back to the question at the beginning of this paragraph: What kind of configuration should the top Android flagship phones in 2022 have?
Flagship-level performance, Samsung 2K direct screen, 120W fast charge + 5000mAh large-capacity battery, 100 million pixels OIS optical image stabilization camera, paper parameters enough "fierce" hardware configuration plus Redmi software level optimization, MIUI 13 various practical features, so that Redmi K50 Pro is worthy of the name of "Pro", but the lack of fingerprints, wireless charging and other functions under the screen, as well as a slightly rustic appearance, so that it is still one step away from the extreme.
▲ The K50 Pro uses a side fingerprint
Summary: The K50 Pro welded a door, and the Tianji 9000 opened a door
If I had to sum up the Redmi K50 Pro in one word, it would be "I want it all." Large-capacity battery or fast charging, 100 million pixels or OIS optical image stabilization? The K50 Pro saves us the time we struggle with because it all has it all. As in the previous generation, the K50 Pro still continues the tradition of the K series, guarding the gate of the flagship and becoming a new threshold for the flagship mobile phone in 2022 as a doorman at the same price.
But I still have some worries about this new Redmi flagship that has performed well in various ways: Can the purchase of a Redmi mobile phone equipped with MediaTek chips guarantee a positive and stable system optimization update in the future?
At the time of the MIUI 12.5 enhanced version push, the Redmi K40 game enhanced version equipped with the mediatek flagship chip at that time was not in the list of the first two batches, and when MIUI updated the underlying version of Android, the model equipped with Qualcomm chip was usually faster than the MediaTek chip. The staff of the Xiaomi community have explained this, one is because the MediaTek platform is delivered in batches when preparing the new system, which is relatively slow; the other is that the manufacturer does not have enough manpower to develop at the same time.
In fact, this is not just a problem of Redmi, not to mention the poor market performance of many flagship models of Meizu earlier, the recently released OPPO Find X5 Tianji Edition is also due to the absence of the Mariana X chip due to the development time factor.
Qualcomm's multi-year layout coupled with efficient cooperation with mobile phone manufacturers has made manufacturers more willing (and worthwhile) to invest more resources in Snapdragon chips to create the most extreme full-blood version of the flagship, but to the side of Tianji, K50 Pro is indeed fierce enough, but the lack of dessert functions (such as wireless charging and waterproofing) makes it not so extreme.
Nowadays, Qualcomm's latest flagship chip is even ridiculed by mobile phone manufacturers as "broken chips", and the user "Snapdragon 8 is very good, but I chose Tianji 9000" The call is also getting louder. The Redmi K50 Pro with the Tianji 9000 does have the performance of the Snapdragon 8 flagship phone in terms of performance. For Redmi, the K50 Pro has almost all the parameters to meet the needs of users, whether it is daily use or heavy games, but for the Tianji 9000, after welding the door with Redmi, it needs to work harder to compete with Qualcomm in places other than performance and open another door.
K50 and K50 Pro
With the Redmi K50 Pro released together, there is also a Redmi K50 equipped with TSMC 5nm process Tianji 8100 chip, in addition to the processor, the main camera (48 million pixels), charging power (67W) slightly different, other aspects of the same as the K50 Pro, this standard version is actually quite "Pro", if you only occasionally play the glory of the king, want to buy a mobile phone for daily use, Redmi K50 is also a good choice.
The launch of the Tianji 9000 and Tianji 8100 has given MediaTek a place in the Android high-end market, but it is only a good start, and it still needs longer market feedback to promote the high-end process.
In terms of price, the Redmi K50 starts at 2399 yuan, and the Redmi K50 Pro starts at 2999 yuan.
To sum up, the Tianji 9000, which has excellent power consumption ratio and performance output, is too hot, and even some of them cover the same high heat of the Redmi K series flagship phone. Redmi K50 Pro is not a cost-effective mobile phone with only a flagship processor, the screen, battery life, charging power and other parameters are also prominent enough, there is no shortcoming in daily use, and when you record life with 100 million pixels and fill the phone in 20 minutes, Redmi K50 Pro will also bring you some surprises.