Redmi 7 Review – Incredible Battery Life, Same Affordable Price!

[su_heading size=”20″ margin=”30″]Hardware & Performance[/su_heading]

Well, if you think that you were surprised to hear that Redmi 7 is cheaper than Redmi 6, then you don’t know about the marketing tactics of Redmi. Redmi 6 had a starting variant with 3GB+32GB configuration priced at 799 yuan. Meanwhile, the starting variant for Redmi 7 comes with much lower 2GB+16GB configuration, priced at 699 yuan. The 3GB+32GB variant is still priced at 799 yuan. However, it’s quite appreciable that the price didn’t change at all even with the adding of the water-drop screen and gradient color.

However, coming back to the section, this time, the heart of the flagship isn’t a MediaTek P series or a Snapdragon 4 series processor. Xiaomi features a lower mid-end Snapdragon 632 inside Redmi 7 which is quite appreciable with 4GB+64GB max configuration.

It uses an 8-core Kryo 250, clocked at 1.8GHz, integrated Adreno 506 GPU, X9 LTE baseband (Cat.7), and up to 300Mbps downstream. It can be seen that it is covered with a 63X, but in terms of positioning and performance, it is replaced from the Snapdragon 626 and introduced a Qualcomm independent architecture that is rare in the previous mid-end chip. Because of this, the CPU performance has increased by 40% and GPU performance increased by 10% in comparison to the SD 625.

Redmi 7 Benchmark Tests

[su_spoiler title=” AnTuTu Benchmark Test (To Check Overall Performance)” style=”fancy”] Intro: The world’s first mobile phone/tablet hardware performance evaluation tool can comprehensively examine the performance of various aspects of the equipment, including user experience, and visualize the ranking. It supports multiple mainstream platforms, running points can be compared across platforms. The test comprises CPU, GPU, Memory, UX, and finally the total performance.

The Redmi 7 scored above 100,000 points marking it as a low-end performance. It beats smartphones featuring SD 625, SD 626, SD 4 series, and MediaTek P20 and P22 SoC.

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[su_spoiler title=”PCMark Test (To Check Daily Usage Performance & temperature)” style=”fancy”] Intro: PCMark is a test software that considers the overall performance. This performance can accurately reflect the processing performance of the daily use of the smartphone, multiple daily test scenarios, such as web browsing, video editing, document writing, picture editing, etc. It should be noted that PCMark’s lean-to-energy ratio is higher, which means that the higher the score of the mobile phone the more balanced power consumption and performance it is.

In the PCMark test, it scored around 5904 points, thanks to the highly optimized 14nm SoC, 720p screen and large battery capacity. The score is nearly equivalent to the Snapdragon 660 and Kirin 960 smartphones.

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[su_spoiler title=”Androbench test (To Check Memory Performance)” style=”fancy”] Intro: AndroBench is a benchmark application that measures the 4K random storage performance of Android devices, including internal or external storage.

Redmi 7 has a slow storage speed (eMMC 5.1) and the writing speed is above most low-end devices. Just for a comparison Mi 9 has a 782 Mb/s of sequential read and 191 Mb/s sequential write as a high-end smartphone. Not bad for a $100 flagship.

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