This is the iQOO 9 Youth Edition, the kind that doesn't cut performance.
When iQOO 9 was first released, I had a bold idea, if only the Snapdragon 8 and the unique chip are retained, the peripheral configuration is appropriately reduced, and then the "mobile phone" is placed in a more mainstream price segment, what will happen to the performance of the same price model to form a dimensionality reduction blow?
Three months later, it had an official name– iQOO Neo6.
Compared with previous generations, the biggest change in iQOO Neo6 is that it is equipped with iQOO 9 with the same Snapdragon 8 and independent display chip Pro, which is also the biggest driving force for the machine to improve the gaming experience. At the same time, in other aspects such as charging, taking pictures, and appearance, it also has a lot of improvements, as far as possible to do everything. But after all, it is one of the main product lines of iQOO, and performance is still one of the core highlights, so how is the performance of iQOO Neo6?
iQOO's Snapdragon 8 is still fast
Since its listing for more than 4 months, although the Snapdragon 8 has shown some over -enthusiasm, it should be noted that it is still a very powerful chip, especially on the iQOO Neo6.
iQOO Neo6 uses the "Iron Triangle" combination that is still the classic iQOO, Snapdragon 8+6400 Mbps LPDDR5+UFS 3.1, and the blessing of the three makes its performance reach the level of the first echelon of today's Android flagship. In the default mode, Antu Rabbit runs up to 1003550, and the performance is very good.
Similar results were found in other types of tests, the 3D Mark, which represents graphics performance, the Geekbench 5, which represents CPU performance, and iQOO Neo6, which also have good results.
In terms of theoretical performance alone, the iQOO Neo6 with Snapdragon 8 has a very big improvement, directly in line with the high-end flagship. It is worth noting that in addition to the theoretical performance, its performance release is also more radical, the reason why this point is extracted separately, is because the current Android flagship, although the same Snapdragon 8, but the adjustment strategy is different, which leads to the phenomenon of "the same chip has different performance levels".
In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I chose two mobile phones that are also Snapdragon 8 as a comparison, one is the Black Shark 5 Pro, a game phone with very positive performance scheduling, and the other is the Honor Magic4 Pro, and the performance strategy is biased towards the flagship mobile phone with long endurance.
In the 3D Mark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test, the Black Shark 5 Pro had a highest score of 2602 and a stability of 87.5%; the Honor Magic4 Pro had a highest score of 2584 and a stability of 62.7%,; and the iQOO Neo6 was in between, with a maximum score of 2591 and a stability of 79.2%.
This means that the performance of iQOO Neo6 is later than the Honor Magic4 Pro, and the performance strategy is more biased towards performance, although it is not as good as a special game phone, but this is also the judgment made by iQOO based on its own positioning, if the frequency point is further raised, it needs higher heat dissipation specifications, which is not what its 8.5mm and 197g thin and light body can withstand.
In terms of heat dissipation, iQOO Neo6 still uses passive heat dissipation, which dissipates heat for the rare earth of the cascade, the heat dissipation area is 46662 square millimeters, and the larger heat dissipation area further improves the heat dissipation efficiency of the mobile phone, which will provide a great boost for its performance in game testing.
In AndroBench, which is used to test flash running scores, the iQOO Neo6 performs as follows.
Judging from the test results, its data reading and writing speed is very fast, which is also the flagship level of today, which means that the machine can quickly present content when launching and loading the app.
On the whole, iQOO Neo6 relies on the "Iron Triangle" combination to achieve very strong performance performance, and Snapdragon 8 performance release is radical, and the special chip tuning method can play the hardware advantages of this phone, which will be very obvious in the game test.
What is the experience of the Pro pro
The aggressive performance release of iQOO Neo6 continues into the game, and with the independent display chip Pro, it will be exchanged for a more stable gaming experience than other Snapdragon 8 flagships.
This part takes "Original God" as an example, in order to better control the variables, I also use the 30-minute method of the Rizuki City to test, because this scene needs to load more pictures at the same time, and the load on the mobile phone is no smaller than the abyss. Extremely high-quality and 60-frame mode was turned on before testing, and iQOO Neo6 turned on Monster mode and interpolation.
After testing, after running "Original God" for 30 minutes continuously, the average frame number of iQOO Neo6 is 57 frames, and the frame number curve can be maintained at about 60 frames throughout the whole process.
Relying on the interpolation function, the mobile phone screen can present a 120-frame game screen, compared with the conventional 60-frame, the visual experience is more smooth, and there is no deterioration of the picture due to interpolation. In addition, after opening the interpolation frame, it will not have a big impact on the battery life of the mobile phone, and the power consumption is also within the acceptable range. If you care, there's also an "Optimize Power Consumption" option below the interpolation function, which, when turned on, will render 90 frames.
In "Glory of Kings", iQOO Neo6 has an average frame count of 113.8 frames, and the overall operation is smooth and performs well.
It is worth noting that in general, the so-called "how to train your dragon" is a two-of-three choice between frame count, picture and temperature, but iQOO Neo6 seems to be very rarely occupied.
The number of frames has been expressed above, on the picture quality, iQOO Neo6 in-game screenshot resolution of 1800 x 810, 810P screen is much clearer than the Android mobile phone standard 720P;
In terms of temperature, after the phone ran for 30 minutes of "Original God", the maximum temperature appeared in the upper left corner of the front of the fuselage, which was 49.7 ° C, and from this higher temperature, it can also be seen that the iQOO's aggressive performance release, the back temperature is up to 43.4 ° C, which is at a lower level in the Snapdragon 8 mobile phone. Although the iQOO Neo6 has a slightly higher temperature on the front, fortunately, the two main heat sources on the front and back avoid the two-hand grip area, which has little impact on the gaming experience.
In addition to "Original God", the interpolation function of iQOO Neo6 is also adapted to many current popular games, such as the 90-frame and 120-frame modes of games such as "Crossfire", "Glory of the King", "Yin and Yang Division", "League of Legends Mobile Game", "Crash 3", "Peace Elite" and other games.
Therefore, on the iQOO Neo6, the standalone display chip Pro further enhances the high-frame experience, especially for RPG mobile games such as "Original God", which has a very obvious positive bonus. But it should also be noted that the independent display chip can achieve a good interpolation effect on this mobile phone, and the core lies in the performance basis provided by snapdragon 8, not to mention that this is still a specially tuned Snapdragon 8.
On the iQOO Neo6, the X2 supercore of the Snapdragon 8 is not a performance supplement, but as one of the main forces of performance output. In the heavily loaded "Original God", the utilization rate of the X2 super core is very high, the average utilization rate can reach 81.31%, and the maximum utilization rate is 96%.
At the same time, in order to ensure the temperature and energy efficiency ratio, the frequency of X2 super core and three A710 large cores is limited to about 1.7GHz. In addition to the CPU part, the GPU utilization of the iQOO Neo6 Snapdragon 8 is also very high, reaching more than 80% on average.
The translation is that iQOO reduces a certain amount of general attack damage and speeds up the attack speed in exchange for a powerful comprehensive performance output. Although the frequency is locked, this Snapdragon 8 still has a more efficient and stable performance performance.
It is worth noting that iQOO Neo6 in the developer mode added the "extreme performance mode", after the opening of the phone performance strategy unchanged, but the performance release will be more aggressive, in this mode to open monster mode, turn off interpolation, extremely high quality + 60 frames "Original God" can be basically stable at about 60 frames. However, if you want to use this mode to play the game, it is recommended to use it with a cooling back clip.
In order to further enhance the gaming experience, iQOO Neo6 is also equipped with dual pressure-sensitive buttons on the screen, and the operation logic is consistent with the shoulder buttons on today's gaming phones. iQOO also thoughtfully added mapping recommendations, automatically matching and setting with one click according to different games and key positions. Mapping keys will be a little unaccustomed for the first time, and after a long time of use, this screen mapping button will indeed be faster, without having to deliberately adjust the position of the finger like the physical shoulder button.
Another point is that when playing games with iQOO Neo6, especially games like "Original God", you can turn on the "high quality" and interpolation function in the display settings, and the game experience can be raised another notch.
On the whole, iQOO Neo6 is not only powerful in performance, but also makes good use of this performance in the game, and the chic chip tuning method and interpolation function make this mobile phone that is not a game phone perform enough to rival the game phone.
Optimize the combination of fast charging + long battery life strategy
The iQOO Neo6 is crammed into a large 4700mAh battery in the relatively thin and light fuselage to support the battery life.
In the endurance test, the mobile phone opens the equalization mode, testing "Original God", "Glory of the King", short video, 1080P video, information flow, QQ message, QQ voice message, video call a total of 8 items, each project 30 minutes, and finally the remaining power continuously plays 1080P video until shutdown.
According to this standard, the iQOO Neo6 insisted on 6 hours and 42 minutes, which is quite good for a Snapdragon 8 mobile phone with the main performance. In daily life, under medium and light use, it is not a big problem to support the working time of the whole day, but if there is a game in the middle, two charges a day are still inevitable.
In terms of charging, iQOO Neo6 supports 80W flash charge, from 0% to 100% fully charged a total of 27 minutes, charging 10 minutes, at best a washing time, you can charge the power to 50%, 20 minutes can be charged to 82% of the power.
Compared with the 4500mAh+66W flash charging combination used by iQOO Neo5S last year, the 80W+4700mAh of iQOO Neo6 takes into account a larger dual battery and faster fast charging, ensuring long battery life and fast charging performance.
Took pictures and exceeded expectations at the same price point
Initially, I didn't expect much from taking pictures of the phone at this price point, but the iQOO Neo6 did exceed my expectations in taking pictures.
In terms of configuration, the iQOO Neo6 rear triple camera combination includes a 64MP main camera, a 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera, and a 2MP monochrome lens. It is worth noting that the main camera of the machine also added OIS optical image stabilization, which greatly enhances the camera shooting of mobile phones, especially the film completion rate in night scenes.
In terms of image style, iQOO Neo6 has a clear brand style, that is, to enhance the texture of photos through full colors and pure picture quality.
In the daytime scene, the imaging effect of iQOO Neo6 is quite good, the picture is clear and delicate, and at the same time, it relies on color bonuses to make the samples taken in this scene feel very pleasing to the eye. In addition, the phone's 2x zoom is also enough to cope with many daily photo scenes.
In the photo, I found that the logic of iQOO AI is very interesting, and the priority of scene recognition is higher than the camera white balance adjustment. Simply put, when the AI recognizes that the light source in the current scene tends to be warm, the picture will also tend to adjust the warm tone, so that the white balance will not be too strong, so that the picture looks cold and prime, which is one of the reasons why the iQOO sample looks pleasing.
For example, in this sample taken in an indoor scene, the ambient light is warm, so the overall imaging tone is warmer. In the same warm sunset scene, iQOO Neo6 also maintains a similar imaging tone.
Manually adjust before exposure
After manually adjusting the exposure
In addition to the daytime scene, there are also good imaging at night scenes. But one thing, in the night environment, the iQOO Neo6's framing tends to be higher exposure, which is also a common problem of current Android cameras. When shooting night scenes, you can try to reduce the exposure value after focusing, and the texture of the night sample immediately rises to a new level.
After manually adjusting the exposure, the night quality of the iQOO Neo6 is quite excellent, the picture is pure, the colors are sharp, the night noise is properly controlled, and there are no annoying color blocks in the black night sky. Most importantly, it relies on the optical image stabilization of the main camera, so that it has a very high film yield when shooting night scenes.
The iQOO Neo6's performance in terms of images has indeed exceeded expectations, with clear picture quality, pleasant colors, and AI logic that is more inclined to the actual tone of the scene, making its camera quality stronger than most mobile phones at this price point.
A relatively delicate appearance + a more eye-pleasing screen
iQOO Neo6 continues the iQOO 9 series cloud level design, although it does not span the entire fuselage like the latter, but retains the core design elements, and the pixel-style "NEO" word is also printed on the cloud level, and the overall recognition has been significantly improved compared with previous generations of products.
This one in my hand is a black lord color, but it is not an all-black fuselage, and under the light, the right edge of the fuselage will emit a cyan glow, which is more subtle to add some embellishment to the black.
The black lord color matching adopts the AG glass process, which is delicate and not easy to stain the fingerprint, but when the hand sweat is more, it will make the mobile phone look a little slippery.
The front is equipped with a center punched straight screen, 6.62 inches, resolution of 2400 x 1800, refresh rate up to 120Hz, while supporting global adaptive refresh rate, commonly used APP on the phone in the choice of "120Hz refresh rate" under the premise of the premise, can run full 120Hz, the current main map class, video class and other types of APP there is a lock 60 frame phenomenon.
Such a refresh rate strategy is intended to be longer battery life, but since the user chooses to open the highest "120Hz", it can be completely released to achieve global 120Hz, and the "overall 120Hz + part 60Hz" is classified into the intelligent refresh rate function, which is more in line with the performance positioning of iQOO Neo6 itself.
Happily, iQOO Neo6 supports medium to high brightness DC dimming, and the excitation threshold is low, and the brightness bar can be excited by about 50%, which is also a common brightness level in indoor environments. Although low-frequency PWM dimming is still low-frequency at low brightness, iQOO lowers the AOR value of the screen, that is, the strobe "black bar width" on the screen, reducing the strobe as much as possible, which is further than the previous DC dimming.
In this regard alone, the quality of iQOO Neo6 is stronger than most of the Snapdragon 8 flagship mobile phones, but the current system does not have an integrated anti-strobe switch Is a pity, if there is, combined with the high brightness DC can full brightness DC dimming, which is a very important configuration for consumers.
So not only the performance, the appearance and screen of the mobile phone are also what consumers have to see and use every day, a relatively exquisite appearance and a more eye-pleasing screen, enough to see the sincerity of the iQOO Neo6.
Write at the end:
From 2020 onwards, mid-range machines have a clearer focus and performance, but it is difficult to have a good experience in imagery, appearance, etc., and vice versa. Under such a premise, iQOO Neo6 has some contrarian movements, as far as possible to achieve screen, performance, image, fast charging, battery life and other aspects of the performance balance, which is still relatively rare in this price segment.
And after using this phone, you will definitely find that it lacks nothing, dual speakers, NFC, linear motors, infrared, screen fingerprints, etc.
After sitting on the above advantages, iQOO Neo6 selects two points of performance and game to strengthen, equipped with Snapdragon 8, unique chip Pro and better passive heat dissipation, reducing everyone's concerns about chip heat and power consumption, and improving the coolness of high-frame games.
Looking at the iQOO Neo6 from the perspective of "game flagship" is somewhat small, which is actually just the memory point of the product launched by the manufacturer, and words such as "all-round" may be more suitable for it. When you have a budget of about 3,000 yuan, the iQOO Neo6 is one of the most worthwhile phones to buy at this price point, or even "not one".