Vivo's most powerful flagship, the X100 Ultra, plays a vital role behind the powerful experience

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2024-05-28 14:56Posted on the official account of Shandong IT Home

On May 13, vivo released the long-awaited image Thanos vivo X100 Ultra, which is the first Ultra model in the history of the vivo brand and the top flagship product of vivo at present. After the release of vivo X100 Ultra, it has attracted the attention of a large number of users with its "Thanos" level strength in terms of imaging, and it is also the top in all aspects such as performance, gaming, AI, and audio, becoming the last surprise in the Android flagship Ultra mobile phone competition in the first half of this year.

When it comes to the Android flagship Ultra level mobile phones in the first half of this year, they are OPPO Find X7 Ultra, vivo X100 Ultra, Xiaomi 14 Ultra, and Honor Magic 6 Ultimate, which are four super popular products, and after comparing and analyzing these four products, I believe it is easy to find one thing they have in common, that is, they are all equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.

In other words, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, as always, is a must-have option for top-of-the-line flagship phones.

So, with the help of the third-generation Snapdragon 8, which has top-of-the-line technology and features in every way, what kind of experience can top-of-the-line flagship models like the vivo X100 Ultra offer?

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vivo X100 Ultra's biggest attraction is the image, it is equipped with a one-inch gimbal-level main camera, using vivo's exclusive precision jump technology to achieve ultra-high-precision light control, Zeiss T* coating industry's first GLC nano coating technology, while solving the problem of ghosting and fogging, and it is equipped with a 200 million pixel APO super telephoto is even more ferocious, 1/1.4 telephoto outsole, FCD100 fluorite-level glass lens, and it also has an ultra-low distortion ultra-wide-angle camera LYT-600, 50 million pixels, f / 2.2 aperture.

vivo X100 Ultra can be said to be brutal in terms of image, but for smartphones, no matter how ferocious the hardware stacking is, if you want to transform it into an ideal image performance, you need to rely on the ISP chip to support it at the bottom layer, otherwise it will be half the effort. The Spectra ISP of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 is the existence that makes everything more effective with half the effort.

The third-generation Snapdragon 8 supports Snapdragon Sight imaging technology, integrates cognitive 18-bit three, supports a single 108 million pixels, or two 64-megapixel + 36-megapixel lenses, or three 36-megapixel lenses, and increases the number of recognizable semantic layers to 12 layers, dramatically increasing the number of enhancerable elements in the photo and achieving a significant improvement in image quality.

With such strong pixel processing and image computing capabilities, vivo X100 Ultra can fully unleash the power of image hardware stacking.

For example, the sample below with the main camera shows excellent light control in a dark environment, not only is the color accurate and gorgeous, but also the picture is clear, and the important thing is that the transition between light and dark in the picture is not stiff, whether it is bright or dark, there is a lot of detail.

One of the main strengths of the vivo X100 Ultra's imaging is the 200-million-pixel APO Super Telephoto lens, which is almost as good as optical quality in the 3.7X-20X range, and even at 10X zoom (230mm), the samples are still crisp and colorful, with a fair amount of detail when zoomed in. This kind of performance will give people the illusion that this is a 10X-ray change, such as the following photo with 10 zooms, which fully reflects the powerful processing power of the third-generation Snapdragon 8's 18-bit cognitive ISP for high-pixel images.

vivo X100 Ultra's telephoto, there is also a very close focusing distance, which means that users can use 10X, or even 20X, to shoot things in front of them through telephoto macro, and there will also be a very natural shallow depth of field effect, such as the following photo, with its ultra-high resolution, delicate, and even shoot the fluff on the stamen, these details, in fact, can no longer be seen by the naked eye, but vivo X100 Ultra can shoot it, such a resolution ability, Once again, the power of the 3rd Gen Snapdragon 8 platform ISP is highlighted.

ZEISS 200 million APO Super Telephoto Sensor HP9, vivo also offers a 200 million pixel option in shooting, when you shoot with this lens, the system will automatically recognize the scene, and the option "Try 200 million pixel mode" will appear on the interface. In 200 million pixel mode, the resolution reaches an astonishing 1630x14056, and the size is more than 50MB, but the super resolution of 200 million pixels is undeniable. The mural of the girl on the right still retains a lot of detail even though it has been enlarged many times.

In terms of movies, the vivo X100 Ultra supports 4K cinematic portrait video, 4K 120 fps, and 4K 60 fps full focal length Dolby Vision. In terms of experience, the vivo X100 Ultra's video smoothness performance is quite stable, and the color, focus, and sharpness are also very good, which is definitely in the T0 gear in the entire Android camp.

From the above analysis, I believe you can see that the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform Snapdragon Sight Snapdragon imaging technology plays an important role in the entire imaging system of vivo X100 Ultra, which allows the excellent optical hardware foundation of the mobile phone to really play its due strength, whether it is the main camera, or the 200 million pixel telephoto and a series of imaging functions brought by it, all show absolutely amazing performance and experience.

Performance and gaming

In addition to the image, the vivo X100 Ultra is currently top-of-the-line in other aspects of the experience, such as performance. Performance is the foundation of a flagship phone, and many of the leading features and experiences are based on performance. In this regard, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is naturally the most advanced at the moment.

Specifically, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 features a new Kryo CPU with a maximum clock speed of up to 3.3GHz, a 30% improvement in performance and up to 20% more energy efficiency than the previous generation, and a new Qualcomm Adreno GPU that delivers up to 25% faster graphics rendering than the previous generation, achieving a breakthrough in both performance and energy efficiency.

Powered by the third-generation Snapdragon 8, the vivo X100 Ultra can score a ceiling-level score of 2107253 in the Antutu review, with the CPU scoring 46+ million and the GPU scoring 87+ million. In GeekBench 5/6, the vivo X100 Ultra achieves 1670/2269 points for single-core and 6286/6871 points for multi-core.

The most extreme test of the phone's performance is naturally the game, in the highest image quality of "Genshin Impact" + 60 frames mode, vivo X100 Ultra for 40 minutes of Sumeru City running map + wild challenge to fight monsters, the average frame rate can reach 59.58fps, such a performance is undoubtedly very strong.

When testing Genshin Impact, the vivo X100 Ultra had a maximum temperature of around 40°C on the front and back, which felt a certain warmth to the touch, but not hot to the touch, and the temperature control performance was already quite good for a high-load game like Genshin Impact.

In addition to "Genshin Impact", let's look at the running test of the popular online game "Against the Cold", which is also a game with very high performance requirements, using vivo X100 Ultra for 10 minutes of mirror lake running map test in high image quality.

As you can see, the vivo X100 Ultra achieves an average frame rate of 59.47fps, which is very smooth.

Not only that, but the third-generation Snapdragon 8 also adds real-time global illumination and reflection technology for hardware-level ray tracing, and the mobile game "Against the Cold" has adapted this feature of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 to support ray tracing. For example, in "Mirror Lake", after ray tracing is turned on, the texture of the water surface is particularly delicate, and the lighting details are very rich.

It can be seen that in terms of performance and gaming experience, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform is also the top in the industry at present, which allows the vivo X100 Ultra to easily cope with almost all large-scale mobile games on the market, and with the blessing of mobile ray tracing and other technologies, gamers can get a more realistic and immersive gaming experience.

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If you want to ask what is the most important thing in the current smartphone market, it is naturally AI, but in fact, from the perspective of Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platform, AI has long been the core development technology and function point.

Specifically, on the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform, Qualcomm's AI engine has been further aggressively innovated, and Qualcomm has upgraded the old Hexagon tensor accelerator to the Hexagon NPU, which can coordinate the entire platform. At the same time, the Hexagon NPU itself has been upgraded with a new microarchitecture that is 98% faster than the previous generation of inference and 40% more energy efficient.

At the same time, in the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, Qualcomm has added a direct connection channel between the Hexagon NPU vector unit and the memory, which greatly enhances the processing efficiency of AI computing. At the same time, the sensor hub has been upgraded to have different modules such as memory, two micro NPUs, Spectra DSP, dual ISPs, etc., to provide efficient AI computing and processing anytime, anywhere.

On the vivo X100 Ultra, we can also see a range of unique features built to harness the powerful AI capabilities of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform, such as gaming superresolution and frame interpolation in the gaming experience.

Taking Super Resolution as an example, after it is turned on, the game's native highest image quality (1800x810) will be super-divided into "Super Resolution High Quality" (2000x900), and the edges, details, and texture of the ground will immediately become clearer, and some distant details will also change from "hazy and blurred" to "clear and sharp".

In addition to these traditional AI capabilities, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 can also support a variety of generative AI large models, including Meta Llama 2, and has been able to run large models with more than 10 billion parameters and execute up to 20 tokens per second. By running these large, powerful models on the end-side of the device, users no longer need to rely entirely on the cloud.

And these powerful generative AI technologies have also been translated into functions that consumers can actually perceive and use on their smartphones. Here we take the OPPO Find X7 Ultra released at the beginning of the year as an example, this phone is based on the powerful capabilities of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform in generative AI, bringing the previously very hot AIGC elimination function, which supports the identification and segmentation of more than 120 types of subjects, and can also achieve hair-level segmentation and up to 6 multi-subject separation.

In the album, find the Select Edit, find the AIGC button, you can enter the "Eliminate" interface, you can manually circle the screen you want to erase, and then hand it to the system. The Find X7 series performs well in terms of AIGC elimination capabilities, and the effect is not even inferior to some professional PS software. What's more, its operation is very simple, it only takes a few seconds and a few swipes of the screen to complete.

The Oppo Find X7 series also supports the first large AI model voice summarization to more accurately understand conversations and generate focused summaries with no missing details. For example, in the call with the customer service in the IT home test, click the AI summary button on the call interface, after the call is completed, the generated content will be saved in the note, open the note, you can see the intelligent summary of the call, for the migrant workers who often talk to the boss, this function is really too trouble-free and important.

Communications, Audio, and Others

In addition to the above, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform also supports the powerful experience of these flagship phones in other ways, such as the new Snapdragon X75 modem, which is the world's first 5G Advanced-ready modem and RF system, and the industry's first dedicated hardware tensor accelerator with peak download rates of up to 10Gbps and upload 3.5Gbps. In terms of Wi-Fi, it is equipped with the FastConnect 7800 mobile connectivity system, which supports Wi-Fi 7, especially Qualcomm's proprietary HBS high-frequency concurrency technology, with a peak speed of up to 7.8Gbps. On the iQOO 12 Pro, it can achieve four-network concurrency, and the average download speed of 500M W-Fi is increased by 68%, and the average download time is shortened by 41%.

In terms of audio, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform supports Snapdragon Sound technology, which can achieve 24-bit 96kHz lossless sound quality, which we take from the Xiaomi 14 Ultra as an example, which has four built-in studio-grade MEMS high-signal-to-noise ratio microphones, which are precisely pointed and picked up through a 4-microphone array while preserving the sense of audio space. Equipped with stereo dual speakers, supporting Dolby Atmos and HiRes small gold standard certification, bringing higher audio resolution; With Snapdragon Sound technology, you can achieve a high-quality, low-power audio experience, with a more stable connection and deeper call noise cancellation.

In addition, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform supports Qualcomm's Extended Personal Area Network (PPAN) technology, which, in conjunction with Snapdragon Sound, seamlessly switches from Bluetooth to ultra-low-power Wi-Fi based on the distance between the user and the device or the amount of audio bandwidth the user needs.

So when you're in the middle of a long game and want to get up for a bite to eat, enhanced dynamic spatial audio still delivers pleasant and clear audio. Or, when you're on a long call at your desk and want to stretch, you can step away from your computer and walk from one end of the office to the other, and XPAN will make sure you never miss a word in the meeting.

epilogue

At the moment in 2024, the market's definition of "flagship" smartphones is changing, from extreme performance to the ultimate in performance, AI, imaging, gaming, connectivity, security and other aspects, and then to becoming a part of the cross-ecosystem and end-to-end interconnection ecology.

In this context, the release of the vivo X100 Ultra is obviously another major example of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform fully empowering the flagship smartphone experience, from the ultimate image, to the experience of AI, gaming, performance, audio, connectivity, etc., not only the vivo X100 Ultra, but also the OPPO Find X7 Ultra, Xiaomi 14 Ultra and other high-end flagships this year. More importantly, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has brought the competition between flagship phones to a new stage, raising the dimension of the flagship phone experience, and standing higher, you can naturally see the future of mobile terminal experience.

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