[Material evaluation] vivo X90 comprehensive evaluation: this standard version is a bit non-standard

In the first half of this year, vivo released vivo X80 Series products. With excellent product experience, the vivo X80 series has also earned a good reputation for the blue factory. Some time ago, @ vivo Huang Tao, vice president of vivo products, also mentioned in his long microblog: "Since the launch at the end of April, the sales and share of the X80 standard version are the first and twice as many as the second in the price range of 3500 to 5000 yuan." This shows the product strength of vivo X80 series.

At the end of the year, on November 22, vivo officially released the sequel of vivo X80 series—— vivo X90 Series products. As the first work of the vivo X series in the next decade, the vivo X90 series has been comprehensively upgraded in terms of performance, system, audio-visual effects, etc. What is the actual experience of the vivo X90 series this time? Today we are going to talk about the standard version of the vivo X90 series.

01 Natural inspiration+golden ratio, this design has something

According to the official description of vivo, the design inspiration of the vivo X90 series comes from the rising sun, skyline and earth at the beginning of dawn.

The image module corresponds to the rising sun, the waist line "ribbon cloud step" corresponds to the skyline, and the lower part of the body of the "ribbon cloud step" corresponds to the earth.

In addition, in the layout of image modules and waistlines, vivo adopts the golden ratio zoning design derived from Fibonacci series to achieve a balanced and coordinated visual effect.

Although I don't know much about the "golden ratio", the designs arranged according to the "golden ratio" are often very beautiful, and the vivo X90 is no exception. The part of the image module and the part held by the hand are separated by a "ribbon cloud step", which adds a sense of surprise to the simple body design of the vivo X90.

In the lens module part of vivo X90, vivo incorporated all cameras into "a complete lens", and "blackened" the main camera, portrait, and ultra wide angle three lenses, strengthening the sense of lens integration of lens modules. If you don't look closely, your subconscious will think that this black circle is a complete lens.

The waist line of the vivo X90 is inspired by the through tail light of the Porsche sports car, which is called "ribbon cloud step" by vivo. The ribbon cloud step adopts the ribbon lithography process. Through 16 core processes, including masking exposure, nanometer vacuum optical color plating, and four axis linkage fine carving, the unique ceramic texture is finally polished.

It is worth mentioning that the words "Xtreme Imagination" are also carved on the waist line of the vivo X90, which means the attitude of the vivo X series "constantly breaking the boundaries of imagination".

Coming to the front of the fuselage, the front of the vivo X90 is equipped with a 6.78 inch super retinal OLED eye protection screen from BOE, which adopts the design of front centered hole digging. In terms of hardware, this screen uses the new generation of light-emitting material Q9, which has been upgraded in terms of power consumption and service life compared with the previous generation of Q8. In addition, the new "blue diamond" arrangement and 452ppi pixel density make the vivo X90 more delicate in visual effect.

In addition to the display effect, the other core of the vivo X90 screen is eye protection. High frequency PWM dimming up to 2160Hz, which is often used in dark environment mobile phone 's users are very friendly. At the same time, thanks to the support of Tianji 9200 chip, the vivo X90 has a chip level blue light control effect, reducing the damage to eyes caused by long-term use of the mobile phone screen.

In addition, in order to further protect users' eyes, BlueWorks has also set up a "vivo exclusive medical eye care laboratory" to study Chinese people's physique, obtain eye comfort strategies under different light environments and use duration, and apply them to the vivo X90 series, which means that the screen of the vivo X90 knows how to protect Chinese people's eyes.

To the side of the fuselage, there is no physical button on the left side, and the volume increase/decrease button and power button are distributed from top to bottom on the right side; On the top of the fuselage is the infrared sensor of the vivo X90; At the bottom, from left to right, there are SIM card slots, main MIC holes, Type-C connectors, and speakers.

In terms of color matching, the vivo X90 this time has three color matching styles: Chinese red, black and ice blue. The Chinese red color matching uses litchi grain leather material, which makes the overall texture more low-key and calm; The black and ice blue color match uses fluorite AG glass, which is more silky.

After looking at the appearance, let's talk about the experience of vivo X90. Pick up the vivo X90 and you can clearly feel that the weight of the body is really light this time. The weight of 200g is quite light in the current mobile phone market. In terms of the body thickness, the Chinese red (plain leather) version vivo X90 in my hand is 8.88mm (the AG glass version is 8.48mm). Combined with the design of the front hyperboloid, it is quite comfortable to hold.

The design inspiration from nature and the golden ratio design bring the vivo X90 a very durable and beautiful design. In particular, the waist line known as the "ribbon cloud step", as the finishing touch of the vivo X90 design, has brought "flagship flavor" to the overall design.

02 Tianji 9200+self-developed chip V2, dual core launched at the same time

At the "Dual Core X Image Technology Communication Meeting" held by vivo on November 10, it not only demonstrated vivo's new generation of self-developed chip V2 and the new Tianji 9200 flagship platform, but also described the cooperation between vivo and MediaTek in the Tianji 9200 flagship platform research and development center. The new Tianji 9200 flagship platform was launched on the vivo X90.

The Tianji 9200 is built by the second generation 4nm process of TSMC and adopts an innovative chip packaging design. Compared with the previous generation Tianji 9000 series, the Tianji 9200 has higher performance and lower power consumption. The CPU part consists of one 3.05GHz Cortex X3 super core, three 2.85GHz Cortex A715 cores, and four 1.8GHz Cortex A510 energy efficient cores. In terms of GPU, Tianji 9200 adopts the new 11 core architecture Immortalis-G715, which supports hardware level mobile terminal ray tracing technology.

In addition to Tianji 9200, the vivo X90 is also equipped with a new generation of self-developed chip V2. Compared with the previous generation of V1 and V1+, this self-developed chip V2 has reconstructed the chip architecture, greatly improved the chip computing power, and brought better image performance and display quality to the vivo X90.

In order to better work together with Tianji 9200 and self-developed chip V2, vivo has introduced FIT dual core interconnection technology on vivo X90 series. A new high-speed communication mechanism has been established between self-developed chip V2 and Tianji 9200 to enable two chips with completely different architectures and instruction sets to achieve 1/100 second interconnection synchronization, so as to achieve high-speed collaboration of data and computing power.

In addition to the dual core configuration, the vivo X90 also has the memory configuration of UFS4.0+MCQ eight core eight channel and LPDDR5 four channel (except for the 12GB+512GB version, the other configuration versions use UFS3.1).

On the whole, the vivo X90 is full of sincerity in the hardware stack. As a product of the vivo X series, it is somewhat of a performance flagship. How about the actual performance experience of the vivo X90 under these "hard core" hardware? We also use Angora rabbit And 3D Mark Wild Life Extreme ran a score test on vivo X90:

The score of vivo X90 in both Anthare and 3D Mark's run points test has created the highest score ever in ZOL's evaluation room, and from the single run points data, the Tianji 9200 has made great progress in GPU.

In addition to running points, I believe you are more concerned about how the vivo X90 equipped with Tianji 9200 performs in the game. Here we choose《 Glory of Kings 》Test two games:

Relatively speaking, Glory of the King does not have strict requirements on the performance of mobile phones. The vivo X90 equipped with Tianji 9200 is basically in a full frame state during the game, and the experience is quite smooth.

As one of the most popular mobile phone games at present, the performance of Original God for mobile phones is relatively high, and it is often called "professional mobile phone performance testing" Software ”Many friends will ask "play the original god" when they learn about the performance of a mobile phone.

For the vivo X90 equipped with Tianji 9200, under the highest picture quality and 60 frame frame setting, it can still get nearly full frame rate performance in the half hour "Original God" test, and it is quite smooth in both running and fighting.

Stable game performance is inseparable from the cooling system of the vivo X90. This time, 4313mm is inserted into vivo X90 ^two Wide area soaking plate. Maybe many friends don't know what this concept is. At present, the area of the mainstream flagship cooling plates on the market is basically 3000mm ^two About half of the Vivo X90 is larger, which also brings better cooling performance and more stable game performance to the Vivo X90.

We also tested the temperature performance of the vivo X90 fuselage before and after 30 minutes of the original God:

The highest temperature of the fuselage is 41.5 ℃, which is quite excellent. Of course, this temperature performance does not exclude the impact of winter room temperature environment, but also has certain reference value.

In addition, thanks to the self developed chip V2, the vivo X90 still supports the function of "game frame insertion". Taking Glory of the King as an example, after the "Game Frame Insertion" function is turned on in the game sidebar, the game screen of Glory of the King will be reduced to 60 frames, and then the self-developed chip V2 will perform motion estimation and motion compensation to insert the screen to 120 frames. The advantage of this is that it can reduce the power consumption of the whole machine and bring a more stable game experience.

Open "Game Frame Insertion" in the game sidebar

From the experience of the past few days, the vivo X90 equipped with Tianji 9200 is significantly better than the previous product in terms of its hot performance in daily use and games. In addition, although Blue Factory launched two chips (Tianji 9200 and self-developed chip V2) at the same time, it has made great efforts to adjust the dual core, which not only brings excellent performance release performance to the vivo X90, but also brings more stable power consumption performance for daily use.

03 When Cai Sisan takes the camera, the image experience of BlueFactory is still very stable

In recent years, Blue Factory has made great efforts in moving images. Both X70 and X80 series have good reputation in image experience. The vivo X90 series is still deeply co created by vivo and its image strategic partner ZEISS, aiming to bring more excellent image experience.

First, let's take a look at the basic parameters of the vivo X90 image module:

The main camera of vivo X90 uses a camera from Sony IMX866 sensor. Unlike the IMX866 on other products, this one on the vivo X90 adds the vivo Camera Ionic Spectrum bionic spectrum technology to further improve the sensor's reception of color information. Official data shows that the IMX866 sensor equipped with this technology can increase the signal-to-noise ratio by 20% and color restoration by 15%.

Taking our actual shooting sample as an example, the vivo X90 equipped with the VCS IMX866 main camera sensor is relatively accurate for color restoration. In particular, the different colors reflected by the red wall under the light are basically consistent with the human eye's perception.

For another example, in this sample of an ancient building, vivo X90 records the relatively true color details of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest. Because it is cloudy, the overall color of the building is more profound, and the color recorded in the proof is consistent with our actual appearance, and there is no unreal color deviation problem due to the addition of algorithms.

In addition to more accurate color reproduction performance, thanks to the 1/1.49 inch sensor size, this IMX866 sensor also has a good performance in light input.

Taking this night scene sample we shot as an example, thanks to the excellent performance of light inflow, we can see the specific details of the outline, whether it is the trees and buildings near the dark, or the location of the dark cold water tower and chimney in the distance.

In addition, we also noticed that the vivo X90's suppression of highlights in the overall picture is excellent at the position of the road in the center of the picture. At the same time, thanks to the blessing of ZEISS T * coating, there is no glare in the scene with lights in the picture, and the visual effect is very good.  

In addition to the main shot, this portrait lens of vivo X90 also showed good performance:

From the sample, the makeup details of the face, hair and clothing details are clearly visible. In addition, thanks to Blue Factory's long accumulation of portrait algorithms, the five features of the characters are more prominent, and the overall look is more ruddy. It is worth mentioning that there is no smearing and algorithm "picking the wrong person" between the character and the virtual background in the sample sheet, which achieves the virtual effect of the character comparable to the professional SLR equipment.

When talking about portraits, we have to mention the Zeiss camera bag jointly brought by vivo and Zeiss. This vivo X90 series has added the lens package of "Zeiss Flare Portrait" on the basis of the five previous Zeiss lens packages:

Zeiss flare portrait

This is a lens package suitable for shooting in backlight environment. By optimizing the backlight algorithm, the halo can be more vivid, which solves the problem of shooting paste in backlight environment. And by simulating the classic ZEISS film lens, the overall atmosphere and tone of the picture are more advanced.

In addition to shooting portraits, this portrait lens can also act as a telephoto lens when shooting long-distance pictures:

Finally, let's talk about the super wide-angle lens on the vivo X90. This is a 12 megapixel lens of the same model as the portrait lens, which uses the Sony IMX663 sensor.

From the actual shot samples, there is basically no distortion at the edge of the ultra wide angle samples, and the equivalent focal length of 16mm also brings more abundant content and magnificent momentum to the overall picture.

It is worth mentioning that in the process of testing the video X90 image part, we also found many interesting playing methods.

For example, this starry sky mode:

Vivo X90 main photo sample

Vivo X90 star mode

This is a mode used to shoot stars at night. It needs to be used with a tripod. After about 30s of exposure, you can get a fairly pure picture. In the past few days, the weather in Beijing has not been good enough to shoot stars. Later, we will continue to shoot and test this function in appropriate weather.

In addition, the new self-developed chip V2 also brought some new gadgets to the video terminal.

According to the official introduction of vivo, the self-developed chip V2 carried by vivo X90 is equipped with new self-developed MEMC, AI NR, HDR Tone Mapping and other algorithms in the image processing unit, which can greatly improve the real-time AI noise reduction and HDR fusion effect of the original image information. This means that the vivo X90 can get a better video shooting experience.

From our actual shooting effect, after turning off the "Night View Mode", the picture will become darker, and many details in the picture will be lost:

On the left is the video screenshot after "Night View Mode" is turned off

In general, whether it's the new Tsai's three camera combination of the vivo X90, the new image algorithm or the rich and colorful image playing methods, we are deeply impressed in the process of our evaluation experience. As the most basic "standard version" of the vivo X90 series, the image experience is not inferior to that of the flagship image of other brands. It can only be said that the image experience of Blue Factory is too stable.

04 120W dual core flash charge, fast and stable

In terms of endurance, the vivo X90 is equipped with a combination of 120W dual core flash charge+4810mAh large battery.

According to the official introduction of vivo, the vivo X90 has a built-in third-generation high viscosity diaphragm cell. After 1460 charging and discharging cycles, the battery capacity is still more than 80%. We calculate it by charging it once a day, which means that the battery of vivo X90 still has more than 80% capacity four years later.

We also conducted a charging test on the 120W dual core flash charging configuration:

It takes 27 minutes to fully charge the 4810mAh battery of vivo X90. Among them, 53% of the electricity is charged in the first 10 minutes, which is quite good. After 80%, the charging speed slows down largely due to the charging and discharging strategy of vivo. More than half of the battery can be charged in 10 minutes, which is enough for several hours of use. The subsequent charging efficiency may be a few minutes slower than that of a device that has been charged with 120W of blood all the time, but it will be relatively more stable and safer. Since it is going to be fully charged, no one cares about those few minutes.

In terms of endurance, we also tested the Zhongguancun online 5-hour heavy endurance test model:

After a 5-hour heavy endurance test, the remaining power of the vivo X90 is 54%. For ordinary users, even if they use it moderately, they can still meet the demand of charging once a day.

Write at the end

After watching the comprehensive evaluation, I believe you have a basic understanding of the performance of the vivo X90. Inspired by natural design, Tianji 9200, the dual core configuration of self-developed chip V2, the Zeiss big bottom three camera system, and the 120W dual core flash charging configuration, it does not look like a "standard version". Even in many aspects, it has some advantages over some top flagship ships on the market.

If you want to talk about where the vivo X90 is still regretful, it may be the lack of a 2K resolution screen and a higher quality telephoto lens. These hardware configurations are carried in higher versions of the X90 series, so if you must pursue these two hardware parameters, you can choose vivo X90 Pro or vivo X90 Pro+ 。 For users with low budgets, the vivo X90 may be the most versatile product you can buy at this price.

In general, as the "standard version" of the series, the vivo X90 hardware configuration is full of sincerity; As an iterative version of vivo X80, vivo X90 is likely to become a popular product at the price of 3000 yuan in the next stage; As the opening work of the vivo X series in the next decade, the vivo X90 will continue to lead the vivo X series in the high-end market as a landmark work.

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