It was with great enthusiasm that I set out to test the latest and perhaps best in the Redmi Note range, although I wouldn't call it a test so much as a review of a week's use. Of course, you can read all sorts of data below, but spiced up with my own opinion.
After the unboxing and unboxing video, many of you were curious about just a few things about the phone, the first being the infamous MediaTek Helio G90T processor, the battery and perhaps the new camera system. So let's just deal with those few things, let's not bore the internet folks with uninteresting frills.
MediaTek Helio G90T
I first encountered the MediaTek processor on the Redmi Note 3, as it arrived long before the Snapdragon version and the MIUI English language was still sparse at the time. In hindsight, it wasn't the best choice, so I started testing the Redmi Note 8 Pro with doubts. MTK processors are known to get hot, consume more power than their SD friends, have poor support, etc. But let's see how they perform in the latest Redmi phone.
Let's start with an unusual anomaly between AnTuTu 7 and AnTuTu 8. We already knew that the G90T would be around the rival SD710 and SD730 in performance, but I didn't think it would even reach 845 (AnTuTu 8 gives a bit more points for each measurement, around 110,000 points :lol: ). But the numbers war ends here, it won't be much better than the performance of the Mi 9SE with SD712 and Mi 9 Lite with SD710, or the Mi 9T with SD730.
Three main games (Call of Duty, Iron Blade, Asphalt 9) that I've been playing, all of course with the graphics cranked up to the max, where they could be set to 60 FPS. As a little extra complication, I sent the picture out to TV and played for 2 hours, alternating. At first there were no problems until the SoC core temperature reached 40-45 degrees, from there I felt some frame dropout (FPS lag), but not so bad that I couldn't enjoy the game.
During gaming, the harshest temperature I've measured on the back of the phone was 41.1°C, but during gaming I ran an AnTuTu smooth and stress test as it never went above 40°C. So it needed that liquid cooling, because without it it would have gone up to 50 degrees, not just the SoC temperature, but the back as well.
GPS reception and satellite hits are perfectly acceptable, in fact, outdoors 2 seconds is the first signal, then within 1-2 seconds there are enough satellites available. During the Győr-Budapest trip it never lost signal once, it worked perfectly all the time. But I thought the worst thing that can happen with a phone, GPS and charging at the same time, and then not, in summer heat. Liquid cooling or not, the phone was literally baking. I quickly took a picture with AnTuTu, at 60°C CPU and 40°C battery temperature, it's a wonder it hasn't shut down yet.
The MTK SoC also performs well under the camera, 960 FPS video creation, 64 MP image saving takes no more time than SD730 or I would venture SD845/855 SoC.Here again, the difference is measured in tenths of seconds, which the average human being would never notice. You can read the camera test in an upcoming article, clickable, which I'll post on Thursday the 24th.
For me, the MediaTek Helio G90T performed above expectations. With this technology and price, Below 100.000 Ft it's hard to find an opponent if you can live with the knowledge that an MTK SoC is humming under the screen. It has benefited from liquid cooling, without which it would be unimaginable to use. Performance is fine, system is snappy, games run perfectly well, even if not at full, but at 30 FPS and with optimized graphics. If that's the only reason you don't choose the Redmi Note 8 Pro phone, you should think about it a bit more. The support is still in question, I do not want to say here whether Xiaomi will support it or not, that's the future. A xiaomishop.hu Thank you again to the webshop for the test phone!
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