【【The first eight crowns, vivo X80 series attracts attention】】
At the end of April 2022, Vivo released a new image flagship X80 series model, and has recently ushered in the first sale.
According to the relevant data released by the official, the first sales performance of the X80 series can be said to be quite eye-catching, after all, it has won the same day sales champion of a large number of sales channels, including China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Suning Tesco physical store, Gome, Di Xintong, Jingdong Five Star and Jingdong Home. In the current situation where the outside world is generally "singing the decline" of the mobile phone market, the performance of such a "listing is hot" is undoubtedly a surprise.
But there is also a question that has also come into being, that is, why can the vivo X80 series stand out this time and be popular in the market as soon as it is sold?
【【The strategy of the whole series of cups makes the vivo X80 series cost-effective】】
First of all, in the product positioning division of vivo X80 series models, in fact, compared with the previous X series, there have been no small changes.
Although on the surface, the X80 series only has a standard version and a Pro version this time, canceling the Pro+ top model of the previous three generations of products. But in fact, the X80 series has carried out a very significant "liter cup".
In order to make this change more intuitive, we made two comparison tables as detailed as possible. It is not difficult to find that the X80 Pro and the previous X series Pro+ models are actually completely aligned, and there are significant improvements in computing performance, storage performance, screen power saving effect, self-developed image chip, and fast charging configuration.
At the same time, compared with previous generations of Pro, the X80 has made great progress in the level and fast charging specifications of the main control chip. At the same time, the new triple dual-core focus rear camera and the industry's first IMX866 main camera CMOS design also enable the X80 to have a significantly higher focus speed and focus tracking performance than in the daily full-focus video experience.
To put it simply, it is the "full series of liter cups" of the X80 series that makes the entire product line not only more concise than in the past, but also brings a huge advantage in the cost performance of "medium cup price and large cup quality" especially for the X80.
【【Behind the performance of the flagship of the whole series, why is the Tianji 9000 so good】】
Of course, for many consumers who pursue both quality and pay attention to cost performance, the most attractive highlight of the X80 series, especially the X80, must be the true flagship SoC equipped with it - MediaTek Tianji 9000.
As the "star chip" of the mobile phone market in 2022, Tianji 9000 obviously has proud capital. On the one hand, it is still the only smartphone SoC available on the market that uses TSMC's 4nm process. That is to say, in terms of the most critical energy efficiency ratio, Tianji 9000 first has a great advantage.
Secondly, thanks to the advantages of the process, the Tianji 9000 also provides a variety of top calculation specifications. These include the Cortex-A710 large core (2.85GHz*3), the largest CPU cache design in the Android camp SoC (3.5MB L2+8MB L3+6MB SLC), and the highest bandwidth memory subsystem in the current mobile phone industry (4-channel LPDDR5X-7500, 60GB/s).
Even in view of the shortcomings of the previous Tianji series SoCs in gpu specifications, the Tianji 9000 has also been greatly enhanced. As we all know, it integrates ARM's latest Mali-G710 GPU scheme this year and adopts a 10-core GPU specification configuration. But what some friends may not know is that compared with the previous Mali-G78 and other old models, Mali-G710 has doubled the number of logic units per core, so the actual number of logic units (commonly known as "stream processors") of the G710 MC10 is actually equivalent to the level of the previous generation G78 MP20.
【【Nearly a year of joint research and development, make Tianji 9000 more distinctive】】
It is true that although the Tianji 9000 is a very good flagship SoC, it was actually released as early as Last December, and the vivo X80 series is not the first model of this master control. However, compared with other Tianji 9000 models already on the market, the X80 series has some quite different places.
According to the information previously released by vivo and MediaTek, in fact, vivo is likely to be one of the first mobile phone manufacturers to contact Tianji 9000. Because as early as more than a year ago, they have sent engineers and jointly established a research and development team of more than 300 people with MediaTek to carry out the in-depth optimization and polishing of this flagship platform.
In this process, Vivo and MediaTek have experienced more than 350 days of research and development, and more than 30 patents have been generated. The final result is that although the X80 series failed to catch up with the debut of the Tianji 9000, it achieved many technical and functional features that are not available on the same platform.
Vivo X80 or vivo X80 Pro Tianji 9000 edition can easily run more than one million points
In terms of performance tuning, vivo on the one hand carried out thermal design and performance release deep joint adjustment for Tianji 9000, which fully released the potential of this flagship SoC. On the other hand, they are more suitable for the most advanced Samsung "overclocking version" UFS3.1 flash memory in the industry. This flash memory has a built-in Samsung Solid Smart Controller that can automatically improve the performance of the flash memory or select an energy-saving and power-saving operating mode based on the current read and write load.
The overclocked version of UFS3.1 flash memory makes the random storage performance of the X80 series very high
Moreover, this controller also integrates the defragmentation depth sorting technology jointly developed by vivo and Samsung, which can more effectively prevent the decline in read and write performance after long-term use of the mobile phone.
In addition, in terms of display experience, vivo engineers also fully tapped the potential of the display calibration hardware components built into the Tianji 9000 and deeply customized the "XDR Photo" display technology for it.
With it, the X80 Series' screens can more perfectly represent the large contrast light and dark changes in HDR photos, providing more realistic and reproduced high dynamic range colors when displaying photos.
In terms of image-related experience, vivo has realized for the first time in the industry the full "connection" of self-developed independent image chips and Tianji 9000 NPU, GPU, and ISP units in terms of functions and processing processes through in-depth joint research and development with MediaTek.
With the addition of the V1+, the X80 achieves a clear "night vision" effect
Depending on this, whether it is X80 or X80 Pro Tianji 9000 version, it can call the built-in vivo V1+ chip when taking photos, to achieve more extreme night scene imaging and video noise reduction, and even to achieve an extremely low light shooting effect similar to that of "night vision".
【【【"Super score + interpolation" blessing, who said that the image flagship can not play games now】】】
Friends who have paid attention to the vivo X80 series new product launch or related information may have found that a key functional point of the X80 series was "missed" in the previous article. That is the industry's first "self-developed V1+ chip" and "Tianji 9000" composed of this dual-core computing system, which can not only be used for imaging, but also bring some unique experiences in the game scene.
On the vivo X80, the Tianji 9000 can also adjust the detail parameters of the game screen
First of all, vivo and MediaTek have cooperated to open up the customization function of GPU parameters on the Tianji 9000 platform on the X80 series, allowing players to fine-tune the picture quality options of the game according to their own needs.
Secondly, the "black technology" that Tianji 9000 had predicted when it was first released, the game super score technology, was also really launched on the vivo X80 series. As one of the embodiments of MediaTek's concept of high energy efficiency ratio, the game super resolution technology can use the NPU built into the Tianji 9000 to "share" the rendering pressure of the GPU, and effectively reduce the power consumption of the GPU and improve the smoothness of the game by using the GPU to render the low-resolution screen, and then the NPU to perform the processing mode of super-resolution amplification.
And on the basis of "game super score", the screen interpolation function of vivo's self-developed V1+ chip has also been deeply implanted into the X80 series of game screen processing processes. This means that the X80 series has become the first model in the industry to implement game interpolation frame reduction power consumption on the Tianji 9000 platform. At the same time, in compatible games, the two major screen processing functions of "super score" and "interpolation frame" can even be opened and worked together at the same time.
We tested the vivo X80 of the "Big Cup" and manually turned on the full highest quality option in the lighter-loaded Glory of Kings. The average frame rate without interpolation can reach 119.5FPS, but the average power consumption of SoC is about 3.69W.
After turning on the interpolation function and selecting the "Boost Frame Rate" mode, the actual rendered frame rate of the GPU is reduced to 59.8FPS, but the frame is interpolated to 119.6FPS output through the V1+ chip. At this time, due to the significant decrease in the load of the GPU, the average power consumption of the Tianji 9000 has also been reduced to only 3W.
If you want to play longer, you can also switch interpolation to Optimize Power Consumption mode. At this time, the actual rendering frame rate of the GPU will be further reduced to 44.9FPS, which is the visual fluency of 89.8FPS after interpolation. The average power consumption of the Tianji 9000 has miraculously reached the level of only 2.64W at this time, and even lower than some mid-range SoCs.
Of course, low-load gameplay isn't enough, so we're going to test Protoss with a manual full-high quality.
Without interpolating frames, the X80 can maintain a frame rate of 58.4FPS for long distances, which is already a very impressive level in the image flagship model itself. However, the SoC power consumption at this time is indeed not low, reaching 7.48W.
After turning on the interpolation function, the average frame rate of the measured GPU rendering is 44.5FPS, which means that the frame rate seen on the screen at this time is actually 89FPS, which is smoother than when interpolation is not opened. However, the power consumption of the Tianji 9000 can be greatly reduced to an average of 5.64W at this time, a reduction of 24.6%.
【【【Summary: Tianji 9000 is worthy of the flagship of the new era, but vivo's efforts make "God U" more god】】
To be honest, it is not difficult to see from the theoretical running score or from the partial game test results that do not open interpolation frames, compared with other competitors of the same generation, the architecture, energy efficiency design, and performance in heavy-duty games of the Tianji 9000 can already be said to be a huge advantage.
However, after adding vivo's exclusive flash memory technology, self-developed V1+ chip, and system scheduling technology with MediaTek, the new generation of X80 (of course, the higher positioning X80 Pro Tianji 9000 version) can be said to have successfully realized the further release of the potential of Tianji 9000, the "2022 flagship God U".
Whether it is in the theoretical running score test, the fluency of daily use, or in terms of game power consumption and imagery, the Tianji 9000, which has many vivo self-developed technology blessings, has shown a performance that can be called cloud mud and mud with other models on the same platform.
What does this mean? First of all, from the perspective of technology and product strength, Vivo uses more self-developed elements to make their Models based on Tianji 9000 more valuable and more in line with the ultra-high performance and image standards that should be the top flagship this year.
From another point of view, in the consideration that vivo may not hesitate to do this, and the X80 series failed to catch up with the debut of the Tianji 9000, or even abandoned the "ready-to-use" public version of the optimization code, chose to use longer research and development time, more cost investment, to do a good job in the details of these two products polishing, the responsible attitude towards the product reflected in the product is even more surprising and awe-inspiring.
From this point of view, it is no wonder that vivo will confidently say that the X80 series is the "king of Tianji 9000", and it is no wonder that the X80 series, especially the X80, has aroused market enthusiasm as soon as it is listed, and has been praised by many players as "true fragrance".