OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition launch delayed due to strict Chinese COVID-19 policies

Zohaib Ahmed — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:00:36 +0000

A Dimensity 9000 version of the OPPO Find X5 Pro was scheduled to launch on March 18th as an alternative to the regular model powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. However, with a post on Weibo, OPPO now says that the launch has been postponed to April 1st in light of a fresh spike in COVID-19 cases in China.

“On the premise of strictly complying with local epidemic prevention and control policies and ensuring the health and safety of the company’s employees, we have adopted emergency plans to solve the problem,” says the post.

Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com subsequently updated its appointment dates to reflect on the changed plans, with the listing for the phone now showing an April 1st sale date.

Still, the launch postponement shouldn’t bar the OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition from becoming the second phone to be powered by the flagship Dimensity 9000 chip, after the Redmi K50 Pro. The Redmi K50 series was launched successfully yesterday.

The OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition will be sold in a sole 12GB+256GB variant at a price of 5,799 Yuan, which is around $911. This is cheaper compared to its Snapdragon counterpart, which sells for 5,999 Yuan (around $943) for the same config. Considering the Dimensity 9000 has been found to beat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in most benchmark tests, it would not be unfair to say that the Dimensity Edition has slightly better value.

OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Version AnTuTu score is out, beats Snapdragon variant

Zohaib Ahmed — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:26 +0000

OPPO last month launched the fourth iteration of its flagship phone series in the form of the Find X5 Pro, which is equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. This was followed by the announcement of another variant, this time with the arguably more powerful Dimensity 9000. While it has already been proven that the Dimensity 9000 outperforms the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 benchmark-wise, we now have AnTuTu scores of both variants of the Find X5 Pro for the first time.

The test was performed by IT Home with both phones being put on the high-performance mode. The Dimensity OPPO Find X5 Pro has managed to score just beyond the 1 million mark, which is something no other chip in the Android world has managed to achieve to date. The Snapdragon OPPO Find X5 Pro, on the other hand, follows closely with 990,473 points.

L: Snapdragon, R: Dimensity (via IT Home)

However, Qualcomm has continued its domination over the GPU space, at least in terms of AnTuTu, with its Adreno 730 scoring considerably higher than the Mali-G710 MC10 on the Dimensity 9000.

It is worth mentioning here that the aforementioned results aren’t the product of a single round of testing as IT Home says that they ran the benchmark multiple times.

The OPPO Find X5 Pro is actually the first smartphone to come with the Dimensity 9000. The processor uses TSMC’s 4nm process and packs a Cortex-X2 super core, 3 Cortex-A710 large cores, and 4 Cortex-A510 small cores, supported by ARM Mali-G710 GPU for graphics.

Now that MediaTek has proved its progress with performance with its very first true flagship chip for smartphones, it remains to be seen if it will hold up just as well in battery efficiency tests. We should be seeing those in the coming days too, so stay tuned.

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OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Edition launch delayed due to strict Chinese COVID-19 policies

OPPO Find X5 Pro Dimensity Version AnTuTu score is out, beats Snapdragon variant