【【Foreword: True Self GT Neo New Product, Once Again Aiming at Young Players】】
As the fastest growing mobile phone brand in China, realme has been in the limelight in recent years. On the one hand, its True Self V series and True Self Q series have gained a lot of fans in today's "rising" market with their pro-people pricing strategy. On the other hand, since the creation of the "True Me GT" series flagship product line in 2021, it has achieved unprecedented word-of-mouth, market double harvest, and helped realme stand firm in the mainstream price segment of 2000-3000 yuan.
The original True Self GT
With the development of the brand, realme naturally has more ideas. For example, in the more high-end product line, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, we have successively seen the True Self GT Master Exploration Edition and the True Self GT2 Pro, which are significantly more luxurious in design and more focused on image attributes. In terms of ecological construction, realme has also launched a variety of new products, including electric toothbrushes, smart watches, laptops, and TWS headphones.
Of course, while "expanding the army", how to firmly grasp the "basic disk" is obviously a very important thing for realme. No, on March 22, 2022, we ushered in the annual update of the True Self GT Neo series. The theme of this model is, of course, still aimed at the young player group, focusing on the performance and "speed" that users like him love.
【【【Appearance: Track double stripe design, light and thin texture of high quality】】
For today's smart phones, how to make people see the "sense of speed" at a glance? Obviously, the back design is the biggest focus. At this point, realme's designers have made a variety of attempts very early on, from the plain leather splicing body of the True Self GT to the fluorescent green color of the True Self GT Neo2, which was quite creative at the time.
When the time comes to 2022, the shape of the Real Me GT Neo3 is even more obvious to make people feel the designer's grasp of the "sense of speed".
First of all, the most eye-catching feature of the back of the True Self GT Neo3 is obviously these two white stripes. The position of the stripe is exactly "through" the rear camera module, while at the same time being cut off by the brand logo below. While eye-catching, there is no lack of a sense of design.
Of course, if you are familiar with the automotive industry, you can obviously see it, and this design of the Real Me GT Neo3 is obviously a tribute to Ford's "Shelby" high-performance model. From this point of view, it is indeed related to "speed".
Of course, as a high-performance model in 2022, it is not enough to have a special livery on the styling. So you can see that the real me GT Neo3 machine back actually adopts a very good texture matting AG process, so that the whole machine back has a more delicate feeling in both appearance and grip.
At the same time, the entire middle frame of the True Self GT Neo3 has also changed the rounded design used by realme in the past, adopting a significantly sharper straight-edge shape, and making the fuselage look much thinner than it actually is through cutting edges.
Of course, it is not very accurate to say "it looks thin", because the weight and thickness of the body of the real GT Neo3 this time are only 188g and 8.2mm, which is really light and thin.
【【Screen: 10bit high brush screen, the same level of rare under-screen heart rate + fingerprint】】】
Turning your gaze to the front of the fuselage, you can see the 6.7-inch OLED screen used by the real GT Neo3 this time.
Obviously, the screen shape is a straight screen that many friends like to see, and the high refresh rate of 120Hz is naturally standard. But in addition, this screen of the real me GT Neo3 has some other points worth mentioning.
First of all, the real me GT Neo3 screen uses a new generation of COP packaging, bringing a fairly narrow bezel. In fact, its top and side bezels are only 1.84mm and 1.48mm respectively, which not only makes the screen ratio reach more than 94%, but also effectively controls the width of the fuselage, with the already thin and light fuselage, so that the one-handed holding comfort is excellent.
Secondly, from the perspective of color development quality, the screen of the True My GT Neo3 also supports 10bit color rendering, and is calibrated piece by piece before leaving the factory. If you pursue the accuracy of the color display, then it also has a certain professional quality.
The Measured True Me GT Neo3 supports HDR10 video, but cannot support Dolby Vision's online video
However, in terms of brightness, the typical brightness of the screen of the True Self GT Neo3 is 500nit, the maximum excitation brightness is 800nit, and the local peak brightness can reach 1000nit. At the current level of technology, this is actually not a particularly high level. And from our actual measurement results, at least the model we have at hand is not currently adapted to the Dolby Vision HDR standard, and there will be color rendering errors when playing related online film sources.
Of course, there is something special about the screen of the True Self GT Neo3. For example, it is currently one of the very few models of the same level equipped with an optical fingerprint under the screen, and this optical fingerprint unit under the screen can also support heart rate detection. In an emergency, take an emergency or want to measure it after a workout, press your finger to read the heart rate, in fact, it is more convenient than the bracelet, watch and other devices.
【【Performance: Tianji 8100, all aspects of performance surpassed last year's flagship】】
Obviously, performance is the most important focus of this time, and it really did not disappoint us at this point.
First of all, in the hardware solution, the True Self GT Neo3 uses MediaTek's flagship Tianji 8100 this year. For this 5G SoC, we have done a lot of analysis before. In simple terms, it not only has the advantages of 5nm TSMC, but also uses a more practical (rather than running) "four large and four small" CPU design, and the currently more compatible Cortex-A78+ Cortex-A55 architecture, while using a high frequency to ensure its performance.
Judging from the measured results of GeekBench, the design of Tianji 8100 is obviously very successful. Although the architecture of the previous generation and the absence of supercores make its single-core running score not particularly good, the design of the more energy efficiency ratio makes it more fully "fully open" in multi-core testing, running out of even surpassing last year's top flagship performance.
In terms of 3D performance, the Tianji 8100 integrates ARM's latest Mali-G610 MC6 GPU solution. We've said before that thanks to infrastructure improvements, the G610 MC6 has virtually the same number of stream processors (ALUs) as the previous generation (Mali-G78) OF the MC12 configuration. Coupled with the cpu itself has the advantages of process and energy efficiency, it is not too surprising that the real gt neo3 can get more than the Kirin 9000 and Snapdragon 888 in 3DMARK Wildlife.
Of course, everyone also knows that the Tianji 8100 is not MediaTek's top flagship this year, nor is it the soC with the highest 3D performance at present. So when we increase the test pressure in 3DMARK, its performance ranking will be slightly regressed in the 4K resolution test scene, but it can still compete with the previous generation flagship such as the Snapdragon 888.
In addition to the CPU and GPU, we also tested the flash performance of the True My GT. As you can see, it is obviously equipped with UFS3.1 flash memory, which has reached the current level of performance to the model in terms of software installation and game loading speed.
Finally, in the comprehensive test of the Antututu review, the 12+256GB true self GT Neo3 we had at hand easily ran a comprehensive score of more than 810,000 in the normal temperature environment, which basically equaled the performance of last year's flagship Snapdragon 888. From this point, it is not difficult to see that the performance improvement of Tianji 8100 this time is really great.
【【【Game: Independent display chip support, low power consumption and high frame rate】】】
With the super high basic performance support, of course, some "condiments" are needed to make the game experience better. For example, multi-touch sample rates up to 360Hz, such as Dolby Atmos speakers, such as the familiar "limit frame stabilization" algorithm, but in addition to these, there are some new things designed for games in the Real Me GT Neo3.
The highest picture quality of "Original God" was measured, and the surface of the whole machine was not hot when the GT mode was turned on
First of all, inside the fuselage, the True Self GT Neo3 uses a heat dissipation system that claims to be the largest in the history of the brand. It not only follows the design of the stainless steel VC vapor chamber pioneered by realme, but also uses up to 9 layers of thermal conductive structures including diamond gels.
But more importantly, in order to further take into account the need to improve the game frame rate and reduce heat, the True Self GT Neo3 is also equipped with an independent display processor chip this time, and it also brings the True Self GT Neo may be the most important game enhancement - interpolation.
In order to test the effect of the real me GT Neo3 game interpolation function, we used "Original God" as a test game, and first manually turned the picture quality of the game to the maximum.
Next, we first set the performance level of the phone to "Balanced". In this mode, you can see that the frame rate of the game is limited to 30FPS, but it has been able to maintain a very stable state. And it is worth mentioning that the power consumption of the whole machine at this time is only more than 3W, which can be said to be very low to a very frightening degree.
In the second step, we turned on the "GT mode" of the mobile phone, at which time the game frame rate instantly doubled to about 60 frames, and the power consumption of the whole machine also increased significantly. After 20 minutes of gameplay, the True Self GT Neo3 was able to maintain the average frame rate of Protoshin at 57 frames without turning on interpolation, while the average power consumption was about 5.96W.
In the third step, we turn on the "GT mode" premise and turn on the "limit stable frame" function of the mobile phone at the same time. Compared with just now, the game frame rate has not changed much, the average frame rate is still 57 frames, and the power consumption of the whole machine is about 5.88W, and there has not been much change.
In the fourth step, we turned on the Real Me GT Neo3 game interpolation function and selected the "Boost Frame Rate" mode. At this point, the limit stable frame will be automatically turned off, and the GPU's render frame rate will drop to 45 frames, while relying on the independent display chip to make up for the remaining 45 frames, displaying the game screen as 90FPS on the screen. It can be seen that compared with the situation at the native 60 frames, the frame rate is obviously much more stable at this time, and the power consumption of the whole machine has dropped to an average of 4.9W, which is equivalent to a 20% energy-saving effect while the game frame rate is increased by 50% and the fluency is higher.
In the final step, we maintained the power supply of the True My GT Neo3 in "GT mode", but changed the game interpolation function to "Optimized Power Consumption", at which point the actual rendering frame rate of the GPU was further reduced to 30 frames, and the output was output by interpolating frames to 60 frames by the independent display chip. It can be seen that the game still maintains a very stable frame rate, while the power consumption drops to around 3.2W, almost the same as the "equalization mode". But don't forget, the phone's performance scheduling is actually still much more active than the "equalization mode", and the player actually sees a frame rate of 60 frames.
This shows that with the blessing of the independent display chip, the true self GT Neo3 can use almost half of the power under the premise of maintaining the same visual fluency of the game, or increase the game frame rate by 50% under the premise of saving 20% of electricity. Obviously, whether it is a player who simply pursues "play longer" or wants to maximize the enjoyment of picture quality and frame rate, the real GT Neo3 can make you satisfied this time.
【【Charging: The first 150W light speed second charge, 5 minutes almost half charged】】】
Last year, realme once showed their 125W wired fast charging solution, but no one expected that the fast charging technology equipped with the Real Me GT Neo3 has been upgraded to 150W. In terms of nominal power, this is already the highest power wired fast charge in the current mass production model, so what is its actual effect?
We tested it with the True Self GT Neo3 we had, first draining it to just 2% of its power.
Then plug in the 150W charging head that comes with the box and start charging. It can be seen that at the beginning of charging, the recorder is able to monitor instantaneous power inputs from 126W to 130W.
In less than 3 minutes, it has been charged to 30%, at which point the input power begins to drop to around 80W and is maintained for a long time.
By the time the charge starts 5 minutes, the charge is almost half charged (actually about 46%).
Finally, around 14 minutes and 30 seconds after the charge started, the real GT Neo3 has already indicated that the power has reached 100%.
That is to say, if you are a heavy gamer, then the real GT Neo3 can almost make the phone "full of blood resurrection" in just a short rest time. Even if you don't need to play games continuously, the 150W "lightspeed second charge" is enough to change your daily usage habits.
【【【Image: The quality exceeds expectations, and the design is reasonable】】
As a model with the main performance and gaming experience, the True Self GT Neo3 is surprisingly equipped with a fairly good camera - the rear main camera powered by sony IMX766.
As we all know, the IMX766 has a 1/1.56-inch outsole, 50 million pixels, and also supports stacked HDR video shooting and "omni-pixel omnidirectional focus". These features make it still the standard of some flagship imaging models, and it has a somewhat "leapfrogging" feeling when used on the Real Me GT Neo3.
Sample: Flower ISO149 f1.88 0.003s
Sample: Flower (double zoom) ISO148 f1.88 0.0024s
But from another point of view, for the real GT Neo3, which is mainly for young users, the IMX766 does give it extremely fast focusing speed, and it can be called double the magnification quality that can be used without the need for independent telephoto sub-cameras. From this point of view, this CMOS also greatly improves the playability of this model in terms of images, which is actually a quite suitable choice.
Sample: Bird's Nest ISO181 f1.88 0.01s
Sample: Tim Water ISO793 f1.88 0.0015s
Moreover, the outsole not only means high sensitivity, low noise imaging quality, but also means that even without any deliberate "algorithm" addition, the Real Me GT Neo3 also has a good bokeh effect. To put it more bluntly, even with a single shot, it can provide a very good image perception.
Sample: Seat (street mode) ISO149 f1.88 0.0027s
Sample: Oil painting (street mode) ISO149 f1.88 0.0023s
Sample: Soda bottle (street mode) ISO225 f1.88 0.01s
Of course, the True Self GT Neo3 also inherits the "street photography mode" of the previous generations of products. In this mode, the camera's stabilization and imaging speed are further improved, while some textured filters that highlight the ambient light and shadow effect can be superimposed.
Sample: False flower ISO204 f1.88 0.01s
Sample: False flower (macro mode) ISO209 f2.4 0.0199s
In addition, to our great surprise, the performance of the 2 million pixel independent macro camera of the Real Me GT Neo3 is also quite brilliant. Whether it is the recent focus distance, or the sensitivity and resolution of the real sample, it is fully available for daily use, and it is obviously no longer a "make-up number".
Sample: Storefront (Night Mode) ISO2493 f1.88 0.06s
Sample: Neon (Night Mode) ISO474 f1.88 0.05s
In terms of night scenes, the True Self GT Neo3 also has a significant upgrade this time. According to the official reveal, it is equipped with self-developed "ProLight super-sensitive light technology", and from our actual measurement results, its night mode adjustment is still more biased towards the city night scene, that is to say, it will pay more attention to the overexposure suppression of the light source, rather than the "violent" brightening in the pure black environment. In fact, this is very reasonable, after all, the design of the real GT Neo3 machine is to make young people feel "fun", and it is its "duty" to shoot the scenes that such users often go to.
【【【Summary: Young fashionable products with "speed" as the core】】
After this test, it is not difficult to find that the Real Me GT Neo3 is undoubtedly a model with a clear design goal.
In terms of appearance, it has a new design that clearly emphasizes the "sense of speed", and there are also solid materials and details to improve workmanship.
In terms of performance, it has done a very good job of tuning the Tianji 8100, and various measured indicators are enough to catch up with last year's top flagship platform.
In terms of games, the interpolation effect brought by the independent display chip is immediate, which not only improves the smoothness of the game and the perception of the frame rate, but also brings significant power consumption and heat reduction. For gamers, this is undoubtedly a significant configuration.
Not to mention that in terms of fast charging and imaging, the real gt neo3 has brought us surprises this time. The industry's highest power 150W flash charge means that Realme has successfully occupied the high ground of the industry's current mass production of fast charging technology. Compared with the previous greatly improved imaging capabilities, the strength of this "game to model" is not just playing games.
Of course, more importantly, in addition to the overall substantial upgrade of this realme' new machine, the price starting from 2599 yuan also determines its more friendly market strategy for young players. Obviously, if you need a high-performance model that is more power-efficient and fun enough, then the Real GT Neo3 is your "dish".