Vivo X27 Review – When Cool Gimmicks, Appearance Sells Over Performance

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

Moving to the hardware section of the Vivo X27 review, unsurprisingly, the Vivo X27 uses the Snapdragon 710 processor. After all, it is a model that requires a large number of shipments and distributions in a short period of time. It is obviously unable to meet the target demand of the Snapdragon 8 series within a short period of time, so choosing SD 710 is a wise decision.

Note: There’s a version of Vivo X27 featuring the latest Snapdragon 675 SoC as well.

However, using the SD 710 SoC also categorizes the phone in the upper mid-end section of the smartphone market. I see videos of people comparing Vivo X27 to phones like Mi 9. Well, there’s almost twice the performance difference between a mid-end and high-end smartphone, respectively. The only thing which disheartens is that Vivo X27 had the chance to debut Snapdragon 720 to grab more attention in terms of performance, but we guess Vivo was not in the mood. Is it me who feels that SD 710 is now old and needs its predecessor soon now, after the release of Snapdragon 670 with almost equal performance.

Anyways, about Snapdragon 710, it has a 10nm process, Kryo 300 series CPU, Adreno 600 series GPU. In addition, there are multiple IPs including Spectra 250 ISP, Hexagon 685 DPS, and X15 LTE baseband, all derived from the 800 series flagship processor.

The Snapdragon 710 is also equipped with the Kryo 360 core with the same architecture as the Snapdragon 845. Its CPU core architecture is completely ahead of the SD 835 generation. The two Kryo 360 are up to 2.2GHz. Meanwhile, the six Kryo 360 small cores can guarantee all day usage with power efficiency.

The new Adreno 616 graphics processor is the second 6-series Adreno GPU after the Adreno 630 of the Snapdragon 845. Compared to the SD 660, the Snapdragon 710 GPU graphics rendering speed is increased by 35% and power consumption is reduced by 20%.

Also Read: Snapdragon 710 Vs Snapdragon 660 Comparison – How Good Is The SD 700 Series?

In addition, the Vivo X27 is also equipped with up to 8GB + 128/256GB configuration to reflect a look of a high-tier flagship. About the performance, let’s move to the benchmarks to know the best:

Vivo X27 SMD 710 Version 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 X27 scored nearly 211300 points marking it as an upper mid-end performance. It beats smartphones featuring SD 660, SD 670, and SD 835. The phone performance is almost at the level of a Snapdragon 845 smartphone getting beaten by 60,000 points.

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[su_spoiler title=”GeekBench Test (To Check CPU Performance)” style=”fancy”] Intro: Cross-platform CPU performance testing tools can accurately reflect the device’s CPU single-core, multi-core performance. Test load simulation of real-life application design, the result is more meaningful, but also to measure the GPU graphics computing performance. It’s a detailed test comprising of Single-core and Multi-core performance.

The single core performance (1842 points) slightly ahead of the SD 670 (1800 points). However, the current single core performance can’t compete with that of SD 845 (2400+ points) and the SD 855 (3500 points).

Meanwhile, the multi-core performance (almost 6000 points) is equivalent to Snapdragon 835.

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[su_spoiler title=”GFXBench Test (To Check GPU performance)” style=”fancy”] Intro: The cross-platform, cross-API 3D benchmark software accurately reflects the graphics performance of the device’s GPU. Multiple test scenarios can fully examine the OpenGL ES graphics performance of the device and perform battery life tests. GFXBench offers OnScreen and OffScreen test methods. When the screen is running with the native resolution of the device screen, the off-screen display is unified to 1080p resolution, facilitating cross-device comparison.

As we said earlier, the absolute performance of the Adreno 616 is relatively conservative, about 35% higher than that of SD 660.

Nevertheless, looking at the result, we can see that the graphics performance of the Snapdragon 710 is more than enough to define the 7 series SoCs.

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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 6671 points, thanks to the highly optimized 10nm SoC and large battery capacity.

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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.

Vivo X27 has a high storage speed (UFS Storage 2.1) and the writing speed is above most upper mid-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.

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