Oppo Find X8 Pro: Smartphone with Mediatek Dimensity 9400 and Hasselblad camera

After another enforced time-out due to a patent dispute, Oppo wants to return to the German market. The new Find X8 Pro, an Android smartphone with a new processor, is intended to help. Oppo is continuing its collaboration with Hasselblad for the camera.

The Find X8 Pro has a 6.78-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2780 × 1264 pixels. The LTPO panel supports adaptive refresh rates of up to 120 Hertz and is minimally curved on the long sides. Oppo equips the display with a neatly applied protective film. Underneath, the screen is protected with Gorilla Glass Victus 2.

There is a large, round camera element on the back of the Find X8 Pro. Despite its size, the LED flash no longer fits in and is located in the top-left corner. Oppo has equipped the Find X8 Pro with four 50-megapixel cameras: Main camera with large f/1.6 aperture, an ultra-wide angle with 120 degree field of view and two telephoto lenses with 3x and 6x zoom. Hasselblad is responsible for the color reproduction. The selfie camera has a 32 megapixel sensor.

In addition to the display and camera, there is a battery with a capacity of 5910 mAh in the housing. It can be charged either via cable with up to 80 watts or wirelessly with a maximum of 50 watts. Oppo has built an optical fingerprint sensor into the screen and face unlocking works via the front camera. At close range, the Find X8 Pro uses Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and NFC. The housing is IP68-protected against the ingress of dust and water.

After the first experience with the Oppo Find X8 Pro, it was noticeable: The smartphone repeatedly loses contact with the mobile network or switches from 5G back to 2G. A stable data connection outside the Wi-Fi network is therefore not possible. The only remedy so far has been to switch off 5G and only allow the Find X8 Pro to connect to LTE networks. This behavior does not seem to be an isolated case, at least two other test samples from other media also show the error. We have reported the problem to the manufacturer and are still waiting for a response.

Mediatek Dimensity 9400 with strong values

Meanwhile, the processor performs flawlessly in the usual benchmarks. The Mediatek Dimensity 9400, equipped with the currently most powerful ARM cores, achieves excellent results in computing and graphics tests. With 6362 points in 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, the Find X8 Pro outperforms the Xiaomi 14T Pro with its predecessor Dimensity 9300+ (4105 points), the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4448 points) and the iPhone 16 Pro (4224 points). The new chip is also ahead in the GFXBench and Geekbench 6 multicore tests, only in the Geekbench single-core evaluation does it have to give way to the Apple A18 Pro in the iPhone 16 Pro with 2160 vs. 3399 points. The Dimensity 9400 should at least be able to draw even in the duel with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite. Longer tests will have to show how the high performance affects the battery life.

The Oppo Find X8 Pro is available in black and white. Oppo is offering 12/256 GB, 12/512 GB, 16/512 GB and 16 GB/1 TB storage variants globally. It is not yet clear whether all of these will be available in Germany. Our test sample with 16/512 GB costs 1199 euros in Germany at launch.

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