Vivo X300 Pro: MediaTek Dimensity 9500 edges past the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max in early benchmarks
Vivo launched the Vivo X300 series earlier this week as the first phones with MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 flagship chipset. While early benchmarks of the SoC on MediaTek's test device showed slight inferiority to Qualcomm's, new ones indicate things aren't quite as clear-cut.
AnTuTu benchmark results of the Vivo X300 Pro and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered Xiaomi 17 Pro Max have now surfaced online, with both devices tested side-by-side in seemingly identical conditions. The Vivo device comes out ahead quite surprisingly, with a total score of 3,956,885 versus the Xiaomi's 3,731,077. The latter score is, in fact, higher than what that phone manages on AnTuTu's current chart.
The Vivo X300 Pro earned higher scores across the CPU, GPU, and Memory tests as well, although not by a significant margin. In addition, both phones dropped by 5% in battery life, despite the Vivo having a significantly smaller battery. The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max stayed cooler, however.
As already reported, Xiaomi's new 17 series phones are perhaps not the best implementation of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Thankfully, OEMs like OnePlus and Honor already have devices with the chipset lined up to debut this month—with the latter already offering a glimpse of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's true prowess aboard the MagicPad3 Pro.
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