OnePlus Ace 3 review: The sub-flagship is also a flagship, and the second-generation Snapdragon 8 performance is still powerful

OnePlus Ace 3, the first performance flagship mobile phone at the beginning of 2024, equipped with the second-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship chip, 1.5K oriental screen, 5500mAh large battery, such a performance flagship that is as perfect as possible at a price of more than 2,000 yuan, can it meet everyone's needs?

Design

The appearance of the OnePlus Ace 3 is still a very iconic OnePlus mobile phone design style, with a sunray scale ring on the back cover camera module and a three-stage switch design on the side bezel, which can be regarded as adding some refinement in details.

In the past year, the exterior design of OnePlus phones has basically been the same, and although it is said that this has made OnePlus phones very iconic, the individual models are not recognizable enough in their own family. Maybe you are on the road with this phone, and people can tell at a glance that you are using a OnePlus phone, but they don't know what model it is.

The OnePlus Ace 3 in our hand is a moon sea blue colorway, and its back cover is made of quenched blue glass, which feels more delicate to the touch, but it will also be stained with some traces of use. If you're more concerned about getting your fingerprints dirty, then the Celestial Black colorway with silk glass technology might be more suitable for you.

OnePlus Ace 3 is equipped with a 1.5K resolution oriental screen on the front, with a curved screen design, and the black edge of the bezel is also well controlled. The quality of this screen is very good,In addition to the resolution,It's basically the same as the screen of OnePlus12,Support LTPO adaptive refresh rate,Up to120Hz,The manual brightness of the screen can reach800nits,And it supports bright eye protection technology。

It is worth mentioning that the OnePlus Ace 3 screen is 1080P resolution by default, so it is best to manually set it and choose the highest resolution and 120Hz high refresh rate option to get the best screen experience.

By the way, OnePlus Ace 3 should be regarded as one of the few mobile phones in recent years that uses ultra-thin optical screen fingerprints, and the position of fingerprint recognition is indeed more convenient to use than short-throw fingerprints.

Performance experience

OnePlus Ace 3 is equipped with the second-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship chip, and provides a storage combination of up to 16GB LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.0 flash memory, as well as the blessing of a separate graphics chip, and the heat dissipation is given to a VC heat dissipation area of 9140mm². So how is the performance of this phone, and is it satisfactory enough for gaming?

In terms of running scores, we tested Antutu with a score of 1712056, GeekBench 6 with a single-core score of 2004 and a multi-core score of 5387, and 3DMark Wilde Life Extreme 20 rounds of stress tests, with a maximum score of 3678 points and a stability of 89.2%, which proves that OnePlus Ace 3 is still relatively stable in performance release under long-term high load, and there will be no significant performance decline.

We have also selected several games for performance testing, first of all, "Honor of Kings", recently "Honor of Kings" ushered in a new season, the map perspective has changed, the details are more delicate, and the pressure on the mobile phone is also increasing. That enables extremely high frame rates at extreme image quality. The measured OnePlus Ace 3's game frame rate is maintained at 120 fps almost the entire time, and there is no lag in the experience, and the power consumption is only 3.855W.

At the press conference, OnePlus Ace 3's Genshin Impact gaming experience was also a highlight, we set the Genshin Impact image quality to extremely high, then turned on the 60fps option, turned on the phone's e-sports mode, and turned on the adaptive Super Frame and Super Resolution features in the Super Frame Super Picture feature.

At this time, PerfDog tested the refresh rate of "Genshin Impact" from 60fps to 40fps, in fact, this is the super frame rate has come into play, the actual frame rate of the game has been increased to 120 frames, and through the test, you can also see that the frame rate of the game is 813×1787, and the picture quality performance is also good.

We tested the OnePlus Ace 3 in "Genshin Impact" for half an hour to run the map and fight monsters, and we can see that its frame rate is still relatively stable, and the average frame rate is basically hovering around 120fps, with occasional lag but not much. The power consumption performance, we can see through the test software that the power of "Genshin Impact" is only 4.966W in half an hour.

During our gaming tests, we also recorded the temperature of the phone. In a room with a room temperature of about 25°C, after half an hour of playing the game "Honor of Kings", the maximum temperature of the fuselage came to about 33.2°C.

Half an hour after playing Genshin Impact, the maximum temperature of the fuselage was near the frame, reaching around 37.6°C.

OnePlus Ace 3The performance of the game has actually been able to confirm its performance strength,In the recent experience,OnePlus Ace 3The system smoothness really impresses me,16GB of large memory for multitasking,Even if there are applications in the background that need to be mounted for a long time,Don't be afraid of being killed in the background,The survival performance of background applications in multitasking scenarios is excellent。

Many people choose a mobile phone at the price of 2000 yuan, and the first requirement is that the sex can be strong, and the system is smooth enough, so that the mobile phone will be used for a longer time, which OnePlus Ace 3 definitely does.

Photographic performance

OnePlus Ace 3 is equipped with Sony's IMX890 flagship main camera, and supports OIS optical image stabilization, has a 24mm equivalent focal length, and also inherits the flagship image algorithm, which supports ultra-clear image quality, ultra-light and shadow image algorithm, and ultra-light and shadow ProXDR display.

In addition, the OnePlus Ace 3 is also equipped with an 8-million-pixel ultra-wide-angle and a 4cm macro lens, which can be regarded as taking into account the shooting needs of different scenes.

Judging from the photos taken in the past few days, the performance of the OnePlus Ace 3 main camera is still very good, the imaging is fast, the color performance is also good, even if it is cropped to 2x for shooting, the performance is remarkable, and the image quality is completely adequate.

For example, these food photos have a very good color performance, and with the ProXDR display in the album, the photos look mouth-watering.

Although the photo interface also gives 5 times the options, but the image quality can be seen obvious loss, the details are not rich enough, but if you don't have high requirements for image quality, but it can also be used.

Ultra-wide and macro shots aren't commonly used in everyday shooting, and the OnePlus Ace 3 has an ultra-wide-angle focal length of 16mm, which is okay in well-lit scenes, and noticeable attenuation is visible if the light is not enough. The closest focus distance of 4cm for macro shooting is still very good for shooting some figurines and other items.

100W fast charging with 5500mAh battery

The OnePlus Ace 3 has a built-in 5500mAh battery and supports 100W fast charging, which can be described as a combination of large battery and high-power fast charging.

So how fast is the OnePlus Ace 3 charged? According to our actual measurements, turn on the intelligent fast charging, start charging from about 2%, it can be charged to 27% in 5 minutes, 20% in 10 minutes, 69% in 15 minutes, 87% in 20 minutes, and the phone will show 100% power in about 25 minutes.

In terms of battery life, OnePlus Ace 3 also performs relatively well. Probably thanks to OnePlus's meticulous polishing of the second-generation Snapdragon 8, OnePlus Ace 3's power consumption control is also very good, and the large 5500mAh battery is enough for me to use it all day.

OnePlus Ace 3: A good phone for most people

OnePlus Ace series has always had a more extreme cost performance since its launch, and the popularity of large memory driven by last year is still impressive, and the three-generation OnePlus Ace 3 is more mature, if you happen to have this budget and want a mobile phone that can be strong and can be used for a long time, OnePlus Ace 3 will be a good choice.