Building on the success of the Find X3 Pro, Oppo recently launched the Find X5 Pro in select markets around the world – unfortunately India is not on the list. As the company’s latest flagship, Find X5 Pro comes with a host of great features including support for 150W fast charging and more. But this is not where the device stops showing itself. It also hides under the surface of Oppo’s new MariSilicon X (NPU), which Oppo claims to significantly improve the low-light performance of the Find X5 Pro camera system. But, did he really do that? Well, let’s find out in our Oppo Find X5 Pro review.
Oppo Find X5 Pro: Design and Display
Make no mistake, the Oppo Find X5 Pro is more than just a beauty. In fact, it looks like a luxury thing. One look at it and I’m sure this makes my list of one of the best designed smartphones I’ve tested so far. This is mainly due to the fact that Oppo has designed this phone to be eye-catching, which is something that is evident the moment you lay your eyes on the device. It has an interesting curved ceramic back panel that houses a camera module which is again one of the best versions of the camera module design we have seen on a phone.
Unlike many of its competitors, the Find X5 Pro’s design doesn’t look mechanical. Its curves and cuts look very natural, and thanks to the brushed back, the phone looks more expensive than it actually is. Another good design decision on Oppo’s part is that it has kept things very clean and simple with the design of the Find X5 Pro. As such, the back panel only features the precision-engineered camera module and beyond just the Oppo and Hasselblad branding.
This back panel is integrated into the phone’s metal frame, which in turn integrates into the Find X5 Pro’s front screen. This is a beautiful 6.7-inch 120Hz panel with support for a 240Hz touch sampling rate. In our testing, we found the screen to be just over 1,000 nits in high brightness mode. However, Oppo claims that the panel can run 1,300 nits while displaying HDR content. In our testing, we found the Find X5 Pro’s display to be perfectly color-accurate on the normal preset. However, when set to the Vivid profile, which is tasked with covering the wider color gamut of the DCI-P3, the display’s color accuracy is omitted.
Oppo Find X5 Pro: Performance
Under the hood, the Oppo Find X5 Pro+ hides a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor paired with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. This is a setup we’ve seen recently on some other flagship phones. And like them, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip remains a hybrid in the Find X5 Pro.
The chipset does not reach steady peaks and instead its performance in the CPU acceleration test has remained ubiquitous as the chip creates a certain level of extra heat. Performance wasn’t something to worry about, but the phone dropped to about 85% of its performance during our testing. While it is true that Find X5 Pro offers solid performance along with an enjoyable gaming experience thanks to its rich feature set, it consistently fails to do so in every game or benchmark.
For example, while gaming, Find X5 Pro handled demanding titles like Call of Duty 5 and Asphalt 9 Legends relatively well, but showed signs of low frame during the Genshin Impact session. Unlike the first two titles, the phone didn’t work consistently, with lower frame rates in between.
The Find X5 Pro’s benchmark scores were nothing to be excited about either, with scores lower than phones we’ve tested in the past on some benchmarks. In the AnTuTu, Geekbench, and 3DMark WildLife scores, the performance wasn’t what we expected, while scores on others were worse than phones like the ROG Phone 5s, which are powered by last year’s Snapdragon 888+ SoC. On the Find X5 Pro, the problem appears to be poor thermal management, with the phone getting a little hot after a long gaming session or even during benchmark tests.
This thermal performance affected the battery performance of the device, as the phone loses charge very quickly when it gets a little hot. But when operating in manageable temperatures, the phone performed well in the battery department. At the heart of this performance is the Find X5 Pro’s large 5,000mAh package, which in moderate use offers good standby and screen time. We get about two days of phone usage when we use the phone in moderation, with gaming on the device being the only thing that drains the phone battery significantly. However, it’s worth noting that during our testing, we configured the phone to run at FHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, rather than going for the maximum QHD+ resolution.
But one of the phone’s biggest strengths is that it only works when the Find X5 Pro’s battery levels are low. Yes, we are talking about 150W SuperVOOC fast charging support. When charging under ideal conditions, the new charging technology fills our Find X5 Pro to about 50% in around 13 minutes and to around 100% in 32 minutes. Those are great numbers, but when compared to devices like the yet-to-be-released OnePlus 9 Pro or OnePlus 10 Pro, the gains don’t look like much.
Oppo Find X5 Pro: Camera
Moving on to the Oppo Find X5 Pro’s camera performance, the device comes with a 50MP primary lens with support for a 5-axis optical image stabilization system. There is also another 50MP lens, but this one is used as a wide angle camera. Last but not least, there is a 13MP telephoto lens that can take photos with up to 2x optical zoom.
This device is powered by Oppo’s MariSilicon X Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which paired with Hasselblad’s proprietary color adjustment algorithm promises to improve color balance and overall results in low-light scenarios. However, the reality is a bit far from what Oppo claims.
Yes, it’s true that the Find X5 Pro’s camera system can take really good photos when it’s fed enough natural light. However, the device’s low-light performance is not comparable to the results achieved by models such as the iPhone 13 Pro or Galaxy S22 Ultra. But that doesn’t mean that the Find X5 Pro will perform poorly in low-light scenarios. All we are saying is that the performance could have been better.
The ultra-wide lens on the Find X5 Pro is quite impressive, as images click through the lens in great detail. But overall, photos from this lens perform well in daytime conditions, where low-light photos leave little to be desired. The telephoto lens on the device is my least preferred setup. But this is not a result of poor lens performance. Rather, it is due to the poor usability that telephoto lenses generally provide.
Oppo Find X5 Pro: Verdict
Firstly, the Oppo Find X5 Pro is not available for purchase in India and at the moment Oppo does not have any plans to launch it in the country either. As such, this judgment will not be buying advice, and the scope of this judgment will be limited to providing an idea of why the Find X5 Pro is good and not so good.
For starters, the Oppo Find X5 Pro is a great phone, and arguably the best phone released in the recent past. In fact, it’s a phone so well designed that its looks alone might be a reason to buy the Find X5 Pro. Then there’s the fact that it offers 150W fast charging and also hides under the flagship device in the form of a Snapdragon 8th generation 1 chip. The phone’s cameras are positive too, with the Find X5 Pro usually clicking really amazing photos with your prime lens. And you forgot the screen? Yes, to round out the package, the Find X5 Pro also has one of the most color-accurate panels on a phone at the moment.
But despite all the good things about Find X5 Pro, we also have a phone that is a little heavy when held and slippery at the same time. The ColorOS 12-based software isn’t the easiest to use either, and as we found in our review, the phone tends to heat up a bit when tasked with running heavy apps.
However, the Oppo Find X5 Pro with MariSilicon X NPU still looks like a step in the right direction. It is a pioneer in its truest form and can easily capture the power of the iPhone and Galaxy S22 Ultras devices in the world. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to do so in India as Oppo has no plans to launch the device in the country anytime soon.
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Source – www.digit.in
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