The comparison of the four new and old Xiaomi flagships is here, how much has the performance of the 14 Pro improved?
This iteration of the mobile phone circle this year is indeed much faster than in previous years.
Relying on the good relationship with Qualcomm, Xiaomi released the entire Xiaomi 14 series and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 simultaneously, and directly broke the record of "Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, and Kuaishou" in the past year for all domestic mobile phones on the four major e-commerce platforms of "Tmall, JD.com, Douyin, and Kuaishou".
As for the back foot, the IQOO 12 series that can't stand the loneliness is already ready to go, hoping to give Xiaomi Mi 14 a dismount with a slight modification of the positioning and cancellation of the IQOO 12 with a plastic frame, and the periscope telephoto and the blue factory's self-developed frame insertion chip are popularized throughout the system, so that this product is also full of attention on social media.
In the end, it was only Xiao Lei who was injured and bought the Xiaomi 13 Pro two months ago.
Thanks to the excellent quality of the Snapdragon 8 Gen2, users have a good experience so far.
Otherwise, according to tradition, Ku'an at this time is definitely occupied by those cost-effective users who shout that the manufacturer is "backstabbing", which is somewhat against the sky.
Interestingly, because of the timing arrangement, the release time of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen3 machine this year completely coincides with Double 11.
This provides two options for readers who want to buy a device during Double 11, whether to buy the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 flagship, which has come to the dessert range, or grit their teeth and directly use the latest, trendy, and most in Snapdragon 8 Gen3 flagship?
Yes, everyone knows that the theoretical performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is indeed very strong, but considering that the performance of the mobile phone is just a string of numbers and cannot truly reflect the performance of the actual game, it is obvious that not everyone has to spend a lot of money to buy the latest flagship phone.
So, if you want to play the popular mobile games on the market, what configuration of mobile phone do you need?
In order to figure out this problem, today we have brought the flagship mobile phones of the past three years, specifically tested the game measurement data of these products in several scenarios, and briefly talked about the expected positioning of old flagship chips such as Snapdragon 8 Gen2 in the market in the future.
First of all, let's introduce a wave of players as usual.
The protagonist of this test,That is naturally the world's first Snapdragon 8 Gen3 Xiaomi 14 Pro,As the one with a relatively higher positioning in the Xiaomi 14 series,Xiaomi 14 ProThe body is larger、More heat dissipation space,The performance in games can naturally better reflect the advantages brought by Snapdragon 8 Gen3,It is a well-deserved performance choice。
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As for the opponent...
In order to ensure that the software tuning will not affect the fairness of the test, this time Xiaolei was carefully selected and selected the three strongest products in the classic performance flagship from the same brand products——
I call them the nose three, and I believe they can bring infinite happiness to the Xiaomi 14 Pro.
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Don't underestimate them, they are as powerful as the sub-fourth and iron bull in the Homo world in the previous generation flagship.
Each machine has unique skills, each product has its own unique tricks, hardware configuration and belief bonuses are even more amazing, and secret weapons are to bring unexpected surprises.
It is obviously equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen2 processor and a 1-inch main camera, but the presence is completely buried in the shadow of the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Ultra The previous flagship - Xiaomi 13 Pro!
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After cutting off the screen bracket, it finally returned to the battlefield with a rare excellent optimization in the Mi series, the Avenger of the Redmi K series - Redmi K60 Extreme Edition!
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It is said that the larger the internal space of the phone, the stronger the passive heat dissipation ability? Then this product should be the strongest gaming phone of the year - Xiaomi MIX Fold2!
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Now that the players have entered the arena, let's talk about the specific test conditions.
First of all, in order to fully reflect the full performance of the product, in the game test stage, the four models will be uniformly turned on the performance mode throughout the whole process, and at the same time, except for special notes, all test items will be pulled to the highest image quality, frame rate, special effects and other options.
Secondly, in order to simulate the two scenarios commonly used by users, this test will be conducted in both indoor/outdoor situations.
Coinciding with the good climate of "high autumn air" in the southern region, the temperature of the outdoor scene in this test is about 30°C, and the screen brightness is 100% in the sunlight mode. The room temperature of the indoor scene is about 24°C, and the three mobile phones are connected to the same WiFi, and the screen brightness and volume are fixed at 50%.
Let's start with everyone's favorite "fighting insects" session.
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In terms of running scores, the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is about 25.4% stronger than the Xiaomi Mi 13 Pro equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen2 in terms of CPU performance, and about 18% stronger in terms of GPU.
However, in daily life, the performance of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 is more than enough to meet the needs of most games with full image quality.
Enter the actual measurement link.
Considering the positioning of these products, we don't know what pesticides and chickens we eat, and we basically know that they are running at full frames with our eyes closed.
Directly "Genshin Impact, Activation"!
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Because the extreme image quality of these four products is not the same, we chose to run the game at 720P/Ultra Quality/60 fps.
The game scene is selected as "Sumeru City", the main city scene of Sumeru is complex, three-dimensional and dense with NPCs, with the high-speed displacement skills of Yelan and Sayu, it is still one of the most stressful scenes in this game, and each test phone will be tested on this map for 15 minutes.
The combined results are as follows:
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In Genshin Impact 4.1, the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro can achieve an overall average frame rate of 59.4 fps, which is already an impeccable stable game fps.
The running score curves of the other three products are actually roughly the same, and there will be certain frame rate fluctuations during the battle, accompanied by imperceptible frame rate fluctuations and small stutters, but it has little impact on the overall game experience.
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By the way, take a look at the surface temperature of the fuselage of the four products after 15 minutes of playing, except for the Xiaomi 13 Pro, the temperature is slightly higher because of the plain leather back cover, and the four products can basically be maintained around 45°, which is a very reasonable handheld temperature.
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Although the gap in running scores is not small, the gap between the last three generations of flagship mobile phones in the "Genshin Impact" experience is not as obvious as everyone thinks, even if it is Dimensity 9200+, it can also give a pretty good result in the indoor wifi environment, which makes people look forward to the performance of Dimensity 9300 even more.
It's all conquered indoors, but it's not the same outside.
In the outdoor 5G environment, the average frame rate of the four measured products basically hovered around 45 frames per second, and the heat generated by the forced activation of the sunlight mode inevitably reduced the brightness of the mobile phone screen, which was very awkward to play.
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It can only be said that when it comes to the heat under the sun, the brother is indeed a sleeping dragon and phoenix, and he will definitely not be able to cope with it without additional heat dissipation on the bare metal.
To cope with such an extreme scenario, prepare an external radiator:
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Or just wait for the only remaining active cooling gaming phone:
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Let's take a look at the new performance killer - Honkai: Star Railway.
The game scene is "Xianzhou Luofu - Xingchahai Sea Hub", which is one of the most high-pressure scenes in this game with complex modeling and dense NPCs, and each test phone will undergo a 15-minute cycle running map test on this map.
As for the result...
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It can be seen that the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro, which is equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen3, has been able to stabilize the average frame rate of the game at about 59 frames per second under this image quality, which can be said to be an all-round grasp of the image quality, frame rate, and power consumption performance of "Honkai: Star Dome Railway".
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The Xiaomi Mi 13 Pro will not have a more abrupt frame lock during the experience, but there will be frequent frame rate fluctuations, and as the body heating increases, the drop to around 45 frames will become significantly more frequent, and it seems that the previous generation flagship processor will not be able to bear it.
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As for the Dimensity 9200+ and Snapdragon 8+ Gen1, both will enter the frame lock state about five to seven minutes after starting to run the image, and the maximum frame rate will be locked at around 50 frames, but as long as the resolution, lighting quality, and reflection quality are slightly adjusted, it can also meet the needs of the game.
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Eh, as hardcore players, how can we stop at ordinary mobile games?
It's time to make Switch games run on Android phones!
To this end, Xiaolei specially prepared two of the most popular NS emulators on Android - yuzu emulator and egg emulator, to try the quality of Xiaomi 14 Pro.
Perhaps contrary to what many people think, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 does not have much of an advantage in the NS emulator segment.
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If you use the yuzu emulator, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will not be able to display any games at the moment. Although the DanDan emulator can display the screen, it only supports a very small number of small games, and almost all large games cannot run normally.
For comparison, the NS emulators of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 and Snapdragon 8 Gen2 run much more efficiently.
After using the customized drivers of foreign netizens, the 8 Gen2 can even reach the level of 40 to 50 fps when playing Zelda Kingdom and the like, while the Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 has to reduce the level of 3D games by a few frames on this level.
(Note: Xiao Lei himself holds the Switch, and he also has the genuine cartridge of "Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom")
As for Tianji9200+,MediaTek's processor has no relevant adaptation in the advanced application of NS emulator,Foreign netizens have basically not made Tianji9200gpu driver,So you can only play some 2D games that don't eat performance。
If you compare it with Mario 3D World, which everyone can run, the result is as follows:
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On the PSV emulator, the situation is similar.
Even the latest Xiaomi 14 Pro, when running the PSV emulator, there will still inevitably be problems such as missing special effects/texture errors, and the operation effect of the four devices is not very stable, so it is recommended that readers who are interested in PSV should buy the actual machine to play.
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For such an unstable emulator, it is not the hardware performance that determines the final operating efficiency, but the optimization of the specific processor by the developer and enthusiast community, and the high performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is like hitting cotton, and it can't be used even if it is strong.
However, on the relatively mature PS2 emulator, the situation is reversed.
The Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro can run classics such as God of War and Gran Turismo 4 smoothly with triple rendering resolution turned on, with almost no frame rate fluctuations throughout the game, and AetherSX2 is well optimized to maximize the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3.
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Of course, the Snapdragon 8 Gen2/Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 can also run almost all PS2 games smoothly with the rendering rate lowered.
As for the Dimensity 9200+... It can only be said that it is a natural disadvantage.,There will be some games that are difficult to simulate normally when simulating PS.。
Finally, to sum it up.
At "very high" image quality, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3-equipped model has a stable performance in terms of performance and frame energy consumption when dealing with Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Dome Railway, which are currently mainstream rendering resolutions, and has perfectly met the standards of smooth operation.
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As a comparison, although the Snapdragon 8 Gen2/Dimensity 9200+/Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 can also run Genshin Impact smoothly, it is a little unbearable in the face of "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", this is because "Crash Iron" is not optimized enough for today's smartphones, and can only rely on the phone's own extreme performance and heat dissipation capacity to carry it through.
If you want to get a smooth and stable gaming experience, then it is recommended to adjust the graphics settings of Honkai: Star Rail and turn off some options that have less impact on the gaming experience, so that most flagship smartphones of the past three years can be easily "tamed".
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As for the emulator experience that deep gamers care about, the current Snapdragon 8 Gen3 emulator experience is not perfect, such as NS/PSV emulators are still actively adapting, and PS2 emulators that can give full play to their performance are not far behind the actual experience and Snapdragon 8 Gen2.
Referring to the situation of the previous generation, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 emulator experience may take less than half a year to perfect.
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Seeing this, some readers may feel that in the past two years, flagship models have been able to cope with 3A mobile games, and the improvement of Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is nothing more than that.
This view is inevitably a bit biased.
On the one hand, in order to ensure consistency, the tests we conducted this time are all based on the benchmark design of the previous generation flagship, that is, the maximum 720P rendering, and the Xiaomi 14/Xiaomi 14 Pro already supports 1.5K/2K point-to-point rendering, which is the real advantage of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3's performance.
On the other hand, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 device also has a more stable frame rate curve during actual gaming, and it is rare for the frame rate to fluctuate due to the high load scene of the Tang Dynasty, which is difficult to reflect by comparing the average frame.
Now the most curious thing is that the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is good enough, but what kind of performance can the Dimensity 9300 bring?
Please also lock in Lei Technology, we will bring the "vivo X100 first review" as soon as possible, and kick off the exciting battle of the new generation of flagship mobile phones with you.