Last year, vivo introduced the world’s first Dimensity 9300 flagship platform with the X100 Pro, revolutionizing the mobile chip industry by pioneering the breakthrough all-big core architecture. This made the X100 Pro the undisputed performance leader among Android phones in 2023.
A year later, vivo secured the first launch of the Dimensity flagship platform once again. The X200 Pro debuts the Dimensity 9400, the first Android flagship chip built on 3nm process technology, with a CPU clock speed of 3.626GHz. Based on the Arm V9 architecture, its IPC performance surpasses even Apple’s A17 Pro, setting a new benchmark for mobile chip performance.
Vivo continues to excel in imaging. The X200 Pro’s main camera uses the new LYT-818 sensor, co-developed by Blueprint and Sony. With a 1/1.28-inch photosensitive unit and 1.22μm pixels, it supports 50-megapixel output while optimizing power consumption by 40-60%, greatly improving energy efficiency and extending battery life during photography.
The highly praised 200-megapixel Zeiss APO super telephoto lens from the X100 Ultra has been incorporated into the X200 Pro. This setup, featuring a Samsung S5KHP9 sensor, a 1/1.4-inch large sensor, 1G+5P plastic glass lens, Zeiss T* coating, 3.7x optical zoom, and 100x digital zoom, excels in telephoto photography. The X200 Pro achieves unprecedented detail capture and night-shot clarity in pro-level mobile phones.
In terms of battery life, Vivo’s Blue Ocean Battery technology has made significant strides. The third-generation silicon negative electrode semi-solid battery technology boosts the X200 Pro’s battery capacity to 6000mAh, the largest for any flagship phone. It also becomes Vivo’s largest battery in a straight-screen flagship device.
Many flagship phones at this price point still use ultra-thin screen fingerprints or short-focus fingerprint solutions, which fall short in user experience. However, the X200 Pro eliminates these concerns with its single-point ultrasonic fingerprint technology, offering seamless unlocking for a superior user experience.
Next, we will evaluate the X200 Pro in-depth across dimensions like performance, imaging, and battery life, analyzing its real-world performance comprehensively.
Design
Vivo’s first flagship phone with equal depth and a four-curved screen offers a stunning design and practical functionality, minimizing accidental touches.
The front of the vivo X200 Pro features a 6.78-inch full-depth micro-quad-curved screen, marking Vivo’s debut in this form factor. The screen incorporates an 8T LTPO substrate and supports adaptive high refresh rates from 0.1 to 120Hz. It achieves a global brightness of 1800 nits and peaks at 4500 nits locally, with 2160Hz full-brightness high-frequency PWM dimming. The X200 Pro’s screen resolution reaches a 1.5K level (2800×1260) with a tripod arrangement, offering a standard PPI of 452 and an OLED-equivalent PPI of around 370.
With a 40° micro-arc design, the screen blends the clarity of a flat display with the ergonomic comfort of a curved screen. The screen’s rounded corners use smooth curve transitions to create a more natural and comfortable visual experience.
The back of the X200 Pro sports a titanium color, similar to the X100 Ultra, and showcases a refined metallic primary color through frosted AG glass. This gives the phone an understated yet elegant look with a simple, pure design.
The rear camera module consists of three cameras with lenses coated in Zeiss T* coating to enhance anti-glare properties. This reduces light reflection in bright or backlit environments, increases light transmittance, and produces sharper, clearer images with more realistic colors.
In the center of the camera module, hidden laser focus sensors and infrared remote control sensors are included, along with a noise reduction microphone at the bottom. The camera’s decorative ring combines polishing and brushing techniques with laser-engraved text, adding a high-tech, detailed touch to the design.
The X200 Pro also features a dedicated microphone on the top. At the bottom, a speaker opening pairs with the top earpiece speaker for stereo sound, alongside the Type-C interface, microphone, and SIM card slot. Supporting up to 90W FlashCharge, the X200 Pro includes a 90W fast charging kit.
Hardware and Performance
Dimensity 9400 also integrates the Arm v9 architecture instruction set, surpassing Apple’s A17 Pro processor in IPC performance, setting a new industry benchmark.
For graphics processing, Dimensity 9400 incorporates the Mali-G925-Immortalis MC12 GPU, supporting hardware-level ray tracing technology. GPU peak performance has improved by nearly 41%, and power consumption is reduced by up to 44%, achieving low power consumption and high energy efficiency. Ray tracing performance has also increased by 40%.
We tested the highest configuration version of the vivo X200 Pro, equipped with 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, UFS 4.0 storage, and the Dimensity 9400 processor, delivering one of the most powerful performance combinations available on the market. During theoretical and gaming performance tests of the vivo X200 Pro, we disabled memory expansion and enabled BOOST mode for accurate performance measurements.
In the AnTuTu comprehensive performance test, the vivo X200 Pro scored 2.8611 million points, a 31% improvement over the previous vivo X100 Pro with Dimensity 9300. The CPU scored 608,341 points, marking a 20.4% year-on-year increase, while the GPU broke the one million mark, reaching 1,267,050 points—a 43.6% improvement in graphics processing performance.
In Geekbench 6, the Dimensity 9400 CPU scored 2,782 points in single-core tests and 8,834 points in multi-core tests. Compared to Dimensity 9300, single-core performance increased by 23.5% and multi-core by 15.5%.
We also tested flash memory performance, and thanks to eight-channel UFS 4.0 storage and MCQ multi-cycle queue technology, the X200 Pro achieved sequential read speeds of 4.03GB/s and write speeds of 3.6GB/s.
Game Testing
To assess Dimensity 9400’s real-world performance, we tested three high-load mobile games: “Genshin Impact,” “Honkai Impact 3rd: Transcendence of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” and “Magic Tide,” using the highest frame rate and picture quality. During gameplay, we tracked frame rate, power consumption, energy efficiency ratio, and body temperature.
- Genshin Impact
At 60 FPS on the highest quality settings, the game maintained an average frame rate of 59.82 FPS. The phone consumed only about 4.1W, achieving an energy efficiency ratio of 14.6 FPS/W—nearly 1W lower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen3. The phone stayed cool, with a maximum temperature of 39.1°C. - Honkai Impact 3rd
At 60 FPS on the highest quality settings, the game maintained a stable average frame rate of 59.64 FPS, with minimal fluctuations. Power consumption averaged just 4.2W, significantly lower than Snapdragon 8 Gen3, which typically consumes at least 6W. The energy efficiency ratio was 14.2 FPS/W, 57% higher than Snapdragon 8 Gen3. The maximum temperature reached only 40.7°C. - Magic Tide
After 15 minutes of gameplay, the average frame rate stabilized at 59.37 FPS. Power consumption was 4.07W, even lower than “Genshin Impact,” with an energy efficiency ratio of 14.59 FPS/W. The phone’s maximum temperature reached only 39.2°C.
200MP Camera Setup
The vivo X200 Pro’s main camera features the new LYT-818 CMOS sensor, co-developed by Blueprint and Sony, using advanced 22nm process technology. This sensor optimizes power consumption by 40-50% in most photo scenarios and over 60% in some cases, resulting in longer battery life and higher energy efficiency.
The LYT-818 sensor offers a 1/1.28-inch photosensitive unit with a pixel size of 1.22μm and supports up to 50 Megapixels output. Its large f/1.57 aperture delivers photo quality comparable to a 1-inch sensor, and it even outperforms it in video recording by providing better detail and dynamic performance.
The vivo X200 Pro also features a 1/1.4-inch periscope telephoto lens, which was first showcased in the X100 Ultra. It uses a Zeiss 200MP APO super-telephoto lens with a Samsung S5KHP9 photosensitive unit, 1G+5P plastic glass lens, and Zeiss T* coating. These components work together to eliminate optical defects like stray light, glare, and ghosting in daily photography.
This periscope lens has an 85mm equivalent focal length, 3.7x optical zoom compared to the main camera, and supports up to 100x digital zoom. It also handles telephoto macro photography and includes OIS optical image stabilization. Vivo’s image quality enhancement technology further boosts the detail at 20x zoom and beyond, significantly improving high-magnification telephoto image quality.
The ultra-wide-angle lens uses the Samsung S5KJN1 sensor, featuring a 1/2.76-inch photosensitive unit, 50 million pixels output, ultra-low distortion, a 15mm equivalent focal length, and an f/2.0 aperture.
Additionally, the vivo X200 Pro is equipped with the same Blueprint V3+ imaging chip as the X100 Ultra, supporting 4K 120FPS image output for a photography experience on par with the iPhone. This firmly establishes its reputation as a leader in mobile imaging.
Main Camera Performance
In bright daylight, the LYT-818 main camera captures plenty of light, ensuring the photos remain bright and clear, even when zoomed in. The default “Vivid” mode enhances saturation, making colors pop. Vivo also offers various color options, including textured and professional Zeiss natural colors, so users can choose settings that suit their preferences and shooting environments.
In challenging lighting conditions, such as strong or backlight, the advanced T* coating technology minimizes lens flare and scattering. Photos taken against the light come out clean and transparent, ensuring high-quality images regardless of lighting conditions.
Night Mode Performance
In low-light settings, the X200 Pro excels at managing light and reducing noise in dark areas. Even when cropping and enlarging night photos, the phone accurately restores colors, delivering deep black tones with minimal noise. It also handles stray light well, capturing distant details and offering rich and varied night shots with clear colors and resolution, even in dim environments.
Telephoto Performance
The 200MP periscope telephoto lens, combined with a 1/1.4-inch sensor, provides clear and bright long-range shots with excellent detail, even in challenging lighting conditions. It maintains clarity and brightness, even when zooming in on distant objects, showcasing the lens’s ability to capture intricate textures and details from afar.
Telephoto Macro Performance
The X200 Pro’s periscope lens excels not only in long-range photography but also in macro shots, offering remarkable versatility. The 85mm focal length captures fine details that conventional wide-angle macro shots often miss. Its high pixel count and large sensor produce clear and bright macro images, making even delicate subjects like flowers and insects look immersive and atmospheric.
Ultra-wide Angle Performance
The X200 Pro’s ultra-wide-angle lens minimizes distortion, keeping the image accurate even at the edges. This lens captures vast landscapes or wide perspectives with uniform sharpness, offering viewers a realistic and expansive visual experience.
Battery
The vivo X200 Pro features cutting-edge blue ocean ultra-thin battery technology and introduces the industry’s first third-generation silicon negative electrode technology. With an impressive energy density of 838Wh/L, vivo has managed to fit a massive 6000mAh battery into this flagship imaging phone, making it the largest battery in any vivo straight-screen flagship to date. The vivo X200 Pro also supports 90W dual-core fast charging and 30W wireless charging, enhancing its power capabilities.
Charging Test
We ran a charging test by draining the phone’s battery to 1% and charging it with the screen off. In just 10 minutes, the battery reached 27%, and after 20 minutes, it charged to 48%, nearly halfway. After 30 minutes, the battery hit 68%, and a full charge was achieved in 49 minutes.
Battery Life Test
For battery life, we used Fast Technology’s professional tool, Battery Dog, which performs a 20% power test by default and checks a range of tasks, including CPU high voltage, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback, and web browsing. This simulates real-world usage scenarios to reflect actual power consumption accurately.
To maintain consistency and accuracy, we ensured that all tests took place under the same conditions, with screen brightness set to 50%, automatic brightness disabled, and volume adjusted to 30%.
After continuous testing, Battery Dog took 8 hours and 53 minutes to deplete the vivo X200 Pro’s battery from 100% to 20%, giving it a full-charge battery life of around 11 hours. This impressive battery life outperforms most flagship imaging phones.
Conclusion
As Vivo’s 2024 imaging flagship, the X200 Pro builds on the success of the X100 Ultra’s telephoto imaging while achieving comprehensive upgrades in performance and battery life. It successfully establishes itself as a new benchmark for imaging phones.
The X200 Pro enhances the X100 Ultra’s 200-megapixel Zeiss APO super-telephoto lens, featuring a large 1/1.4-inch sensor that accurately captures details and colors in long-range shots.
Whether photographing architectural vistas during the day or the starry sky at night, the X200 Pro’s periscope telephoto lens consistently delivers high-quality, clear, and bright images, even in complex lighting conditions.
Additionally, the telephoto lens includes a macro function, allowing users to capture tiny details and broadening the range of shooting scenarios, enhancing its versatility and practicality.
Powered by the world’s first Dimensity 9400 processor, developed in collaboration with MediaTek, the X200 Pro excels in performance. Tests of high-load RPG mobile games like Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3, and Naruto showed full-frame operation with an average power consumption of just over 4W, nearly 1W lower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, delivering exceptional gaming performance.
The vivo X200 Pro seamlessly combines top-tier imaging capabilities with high-performance gaming, positioning itself as both a leading imaging phone and a powerful gaming flagship.
In terms of battery life, the X200 Pro boasts Vivo’s largest 6000mAh blue ocean ultra-thin battery, featuring third-generation silicon negative electrode semi-solid technology. This provides a higher energy density and delivers nearly 11 hours of battery life, a rare achievement among imaging flagship phones. It also stands as the vivo flagship with the longest battery life to date.
The X200 Pro supports 90W wired fast charging and 30W wireless charging, ensuring the 6000mAh battery can fully recharge in just one hour while maintaining its powerful imaging and extended battery life.
In summary, the vivo X200 Pro not only advances the telephoto and night scene capabilities of the X100 Ultra but also disrupts the performance and battery life standards for imaging phones. It expertly balances top-level imaging, impressive gaming performance, and ultra-long battery life, making it a highly competitive all-around contender among 2024 imaging flagships.
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