The Dimensity 9300 and the gaming chip Q1 release the performance "nuclear energy" and create a game machine

The same "Genshin Impact" has a very high image quality + 60 frames, and the average frame rate is only 53.9FPS when the power consumption of other flagship mobile phones is as high as 5.7W, but the iQOO Neo9 Pro has achieved an average frame rate of 5.1W power consumption + 59.5FPS!

is also "Honor of Kings" 120 frames + extreme image quality, other flagship mobile phones that claim to use layer 10,000 VC have reached 43.9°C, but the temperature of iQOO Neo9 Pro is only 42.4°C.

In the multi-tasking state, the iQOO Neo9 Pro has the advantage of "unfair scheduling 2.0" function. The same "Genshin Impact" + WeChat voice, the frame rate of other mobile phones is reduced to 50.8FPS, but the iQOO Neo9 Pro can still maintain 59.4FPS, and the frame rate is always stable.

At the iQOO Neo9 series dual-core game performance technical conference a few days ago, iQOO mobile phones demonstrated their technical accumulation and strength in the field of games for many years. As a brand focusing on gaming performance, iQOO has set a benchmark in the gaming field since its birth.

There is no doubt that the new iQOO Neo9 series continues the fine tradition of high performance of iQOO mobile phones, maintains the image of the performance benchmark, and achieves far better performance than other phones in the same class in the test. iQOO, how exactly does it work?

vivo teamed up with MTK to define the all-large core Dimensity 9300

With the advent of the 3G and 4G era, Qualcomm has seized the opportunity to become a giant in the field of mobile communications. The 5G era is an opportunity for MTK, and the most fortunate thing is that MTK also met vivo, the "true love" that has always supported him.

Since the Dimensity 9000 series, vivo has established a deep cooperative relationship with MTK. Huang Tao, vice president of products at vivo, said that the Dimensity 9300 is jointly defined by vivo and MTK, and the two sides jointly explore the all-large core architecture of the Dimensity 9300.

A mobile phone equipped with a certain SoC does not need to be installed, but also needs to be optimized by the mobile phone manufacturer according to the architecture of the chip, otherwise it will not be able to fully exert the performance of the SoC. Many mobile phones equipped with the same SoC have a big difference in running scores, not to mention the performance when actually used.

Years of cooperation with MTK, as well as the insistence on the MTK chip in the flagship phone, have allowed vivo to accumulate a lot of experience in the optimization of Dimensity SoCs. The Dimensity 9300, jointly defined by the two, adopts a unique all-large-core architecture, which provides a performance guarantee for the iQOO Neo9 series.

Generally speaking, in order to maintain low power consumption in daily use, the CPU architecture of the chip will be designed with a combination of large and small cores. After years of development, the chip architecture has now become complex to the point of super large core + large core + medium core + small core, but the Dimensity 9300 is different, abandoning the traditional small and medium-sized core architecture, and adopting a full large core architecture composed of 4 Cortex-X4 super cores + 4 Cortex-A720 large cores.

The design of the SoC cannot be separated from the product, since it is necessary to cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers, "true love" vivo is naturally the best choice for MTK. Facts have also proved that MTK's choice was not wrong.

Compared with the previous generation Dimensity 9200, the Dimensity 9300 has a 40% increase in peak performance and a 33% lower energy consumption for the same performance. Judging from the Antutu running score, except for a few professional gaming phones or flagships that focus on gaming performance, the running scores of other ordinary Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagships are 5% lower than vivo's Dimensity 9300 flagship.

The iQOO Neo9 series has a game performance that far exceeds that of similar products, "Genshin Impact" big world runs for half an hour, and the average frame rate of iQOO Neo9 Pro equipped with frame rate perception technology 2.0 is as high as 59.5 frames, with an average power of 5.1W, while the mobile phone of a competitor is only 53.9 frames, and the power is 5.7W.

Coupled with the 6000 square millimeter large-area VC vapor chamber of the iQOO Neo9 series, vivo has a higher body coverage and even surpasses the heat dissipation performance of the 10,000-level VC of its competitors, which can perfectly give full play to the performance of the Dimensity 9300.

Do you think vivo will be satisfied?No, iQOO Neo has a performance that far exceeds that of its peers, and there is another great contributor, that is, vivo's self-developed e-sports chip Q1, which deeply empowers the game experience with super-resolution and super-frame capabilities.

Dual-core casts the god of war, and Q1 creates a benchmark for games

Under the research and publicity of mobile phone manufacturers, consumers are no longer strangers to independent display chips, the difference is that the chip research and development of other mobile phone manufacturers is mainly in imaging, NPU, etc., vivo has also expanded it to the field of games, creating a "e-sports chip" similar to PC independent graphics cards.

The history of the iQOO Neo series using independent gaming chips can be traced back to the iQOO Neo5, which was released in early 2021. Three years have passed, and the iQOO Neo series has updated its five generations of products, from third-party independent display chips to self-developed e-sports chips Q1, combined with stronger self-developed algorithms to bring industry-leading super-resolution + super-frame effects.

PC users may be familiar with gaming super-resolution, with NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR both falling into this category. Mobile phone SoCs have limited performance, and improving the picture means sacrificing frame rate, but a good product designed for gamers naturally "I want it all". iQOO developed the gaming chip Q1 in the hope of taking into account both the picture and the frame rate.

To this end, iQOO continuously adjusted various parameters, interviewed gamers and users, and finally came up with a set of V-SR algorithms that are efficient and can achieve the best image quality that players think.

In the training stage of V-SR, the network model will enlarge and slice the low-resolution images on the game mobile phone, and then classify the image blocks according to the texture type, image gradient, image correlation and other characteristics of the images. Similarly, high-resolution images are also sliced, and the network structure includes multi-scale convolution and attention mechanism. After at least 100,000 iterative network updates, a set of target convolution kernels is obtained. These convolutional kernels are capable of sampling low-resolution images into high-resolution images. When the mobile phone is running, the content drawn by the game will first go through the upsampling process of point-to-point rendering of the game content, and then slice and classify, and different categories will be enhanced by different V-SR algorithms corresponding to category sub-algorithms, and finally the block aggregation will be carried out to output the final image.

Based on this algorithm, iQOO Neo9 Pro achieves 1.5K superresolution and 72 frames of superframe concurrency. Compared with the 2K ordinary superresolution + 45 frame rate image quality of the competitor mobile phone, it is still difficult to maintain the stable frame rate, but the iQOO Neo9 Pro has achieved excellent performance of 1.5K resolution, 72FPS frame rate and stable operation for 30 minutes, the picture is clearer, smoother and even lower power consumption.

The significance of high frame rate, when high refresh rate screens began to popularize, there were many popular science articles. But for gamers, the most terrible thing is not that the frame rate is only 45FPS, but that it is impossible to stabilize 45FPS, as long as it is not less than 30FPS, and after the eyes adapt to a certain frame rate, it is not impossible to "blink and make up the frame".

The frame rate fluctuates constantly, making stuttering noticeable. With the support of zero-latency interpolation technology, the iQOO Neo9Pro not only can reach 72FPS, but also is as stable as Mount Tai, and the game smoothness is one level higher.

In addition to the frame insertion of the self-developed gaming chip Q1, the iQOO Neo9 series also supports frame rate perception technology, which realizes accurate scheduling and distribution, reduces power consumption, and improves the goal of frame stabilization through "frame-by-frame" recognition and load calculation of game scenes.

The performance of mobile phone SoCs is limited, and the pressure of 2K resolution is too great, so many mobile phones will use super-resolution solutions. However, it is also a super-resolution technology, and the strength of mobile phone manufacturers is different, and there will be obvious differences in the details of the picture. Although the super-division solution of industry friends will reduce the resolution to 1200P/1440P, the essence is to simply increase the pixels, and the delicacy of the picture has hardly been improved. iQOO Neo9 Pro has an independent gaming chip and an exclusive self-developed V-SR algorithm, which brings an overall improvement in image quality and detail effects, resulting in a phenomenon that the definition of the 1.5K screen is higher than that of the 2K screen.

The iQOO Neo9 series' 1.5K 144Hz 8T all-weather ultra-sensitive display also supports V-Sync technology, which opens up the whole link from "rendering" to "display" of games, reducing the latency to 37.92ms, leading the industry by 37%, and its handiness is also better than that of other products in the same class. In the open-world mobile game scenario, the latency of the super frame to 144 fps is lower than that of the native 60 fps. At the same time, based on the self-developed e-sports chip Q1, the iQOO Neo9 series supports more than 135 models to enable the interpolation function, of which 100+ games support interpolation to achieve 144 frames, truly achieving leading experience, leading coverage, and smooth revolution.

"Both soft and hard" is the guarantee of iQOO's performance

It seems that since the beginning of the Snapdragon 835 era, there have been comments from netizens, claiming that the performance of mobile phones is excessive, and the Snapdragon 7 series chips have been able to meet the needs of ordinary users. However, game manufacturers tell us that excess performance will never come, and there will always be games with richer content, more diverse gameplay, and higher performance requirements.

The iQOO Neo9 series combines both software and hardware to meet the needs of current gamers through the "flagship dual-core" combination of Dimensity 9300 and self-developed gaming chip Q1, which collides with performance "core energy", combined with technologies such as V-SR, V-Sync, frame rate perception, and zero-delay frame insertion.

At the same time, vivo has also pointed out the path for the industry, in today's mobile game performance requirements are getting higher and higher, and mobile game ray tracing is rapidly popular, relying only on the CPU and GPU performance of SoCs may not be able to meet the requirements of gamers in the future.

In the 80s of the 20th century, independent graphics cards appeared in the PC field, and now 40 years later, mobile phones may not be equipped with independent GPUs, but through professional e-sports chips and algorithms, it is time to popularize the solution of reducing SoC pressure and power consumption, and improving game frame rate, resolution and stability.