Huawei Pura 80 Ultra dominates DxOMark camera rankings, far ahead of Oppo Find X8 Ultra and Vivo X200 Ultra
It's the same story almost every year. In 2025, a Huawei flagship once again tops the rankings at DxOMark, this year with the Pura 80 Ultra, which, with its unusual dual-lens telephoto architecture, is technically unique on the smartphone market. Criticism of Huawei's consistently leading position and accusations of corruption in DxOMark's supposedly objective scoring system are commonplace. This year is no exception either, as the comments on an official social media post are dominated by criticism and incomprehension.
According to the latest Huawei Pura 80 Ultra camera test, the Chinese company has now achieved a new high at a total of 175 points, followed at some distance by the Oppo Find X8 Ultra and the Vivo X200 Ultra in second and third place, respectively. The Pura 80 Ultra achieves top marks in the categories of portraits, indoor shots, low light and outdoor shots. Only in the zoom category did the Vivo X200 Ultra come out one point ahead in the recently published DxOMark test report, which is quite noteworthy given the sophisticated telephoto solution in the Pura 80 Ultra.
Hardly any negative points for the Pura 80 Ultra
It is striking that the testers have very little to criticize about Huawei's flagship model. The only negative points mentioned are occasional instability in exposure and color fidelity, slightly unnatural textures in difficult lighting situations, and some image artifacts such as ghosting in video mode. In all other cases, the camera of the current Pura flagship scores very well. Praise is given to the high dynamic range and, according to the test report, excellent color reproduction in difficult scenes, which is said to be clearly superior to that of its competitors.
Skin tones, detail, autofocus, video stabilization and the very wide-angle ultra-wide-angle camera are also explicitly mentioned as advantages. According to the test report, the photos show very little noise in low light. The complete test report contains a large number of comparison photos, so interested readers can see for themselves whether the large gap between Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and others in the ranking is actually justified.
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