High-end experience without short board Xiaomi 13 Pro evaluation

After three years of exploration: in February 2020, Xiaomi launched the high-end digital series mobile phone strategy, and the 10 series hit the high-end market for the first time, achieving a dream start; In 20021year, Xiaomi released Xiaomi 1 1 series to seek a breakthrough in technology and design aesthetics; In 2022, Xiaomi 12 series was further optimized for many functions, realizing the evolution from performance leading to experience priority. The high-end strategy of the past three years has profoundly affected Xiaomi and profoundly changed Xiaomi.

Deep technology accumulation and R&D investment provide key support for Xiaomi's high-end breakthrough. As the answer to the three-year exploration of Xiaomi's high-end strategy, the recently released Xiaomi 13 Pro also provides users with a more comprehensive experience in terms of performance and images. Let's take a look at the performance of this flagship.

In terms of appearance design, the overall body of Xiaomi 13 Pro adopts a more coherent and smooth design method, in which the back is covered with wet and solid glazed ceramics, and the addition of plain leather version enriches the design style of the whole back. With the four-dimensional design, the fuselage lines show a coherent and beautiful curve.

In addition to the classic black and white ceramics, Xiaomi 13 Pro also conveys the temperament of "Yuan Ye Green" with ceramic materials. Compared with glass, ceramics also provide a softer touch and purer color. The model in our hand is a version of scientific nano-materials, and the color scheme is "Far Mountain Blue". The whole plain leather adopts brand-new silicone formula, which has soft touch, fine texture and good anti-pollution ability. When shooting outdoors, the technology nano-skin has strong anti-ultraviolet aging and anti-rain ability, even if it is stained, it can be cleaned by simple wiping.

Xiaomi 13 Pro is equipped with a 6.73-inch 2K screen, which supports the dynamic refresh of 120Hz VRR, and the PPI reaches 522. This screen supports 10bit native color depth, covering 100% sRGB and 100% P3 color spaces, and supports automatic display color management. Wide color gamut and color management provide the basis for the accuracy of color display, which makes Xiaomi 13 Pro competent for the post-workflow processing of professional photos.

The screen display of Xiaomi 13 Pro supports four Hollywood HDR specifications, namely HDR 10, HDR 10+, Dolby Vision and HLG, which can display native 10bit and the peak brightness exceeds 1000nit. When shooting and watching HDR photos and videos, it can provide professional monitoring of the accuracy of horizontal display and accurately restore the contrast between light and dark in the picture.

Xiaomi 13 Pro adopts E6 luminescent material, which greatly improves the luminous efficiency of the screen. Outdoor, the full-screen brightness of Xiaomi 13 Pro can reach 1200nit, and the highest peak brightness can excite the brightness of 1900nit. Even in the sun, you can clearly see the contents on the screen, and you won't be unable to see the details on the screen because of the strong light when shooting outdoors.

Xiaomi 13 Pro screen supports LTPO, provides 120Hz VRR dynamic refresh technology, supports 1- 120Hz stepless variable refresh rate, abandons the previous concept of shifting gears with refresh rate, and realizes the complete matching of GPU output and refresh.

In the daily application scenario, when the screen content remains unchanged, refreshing the same frame repeatedly will lead to wasted power consumption of the screen. In this case, Xiaomi 13 Pro can match the screen refresh with the output of GPU, so as to stop the refresh immediately when the screen is still and keep the static state of 1Hz. This effect is most obvious when the "clock" widget is placed on the desktop. Only when the second hand swings, the screen will be refreshed immediately, and then the screen will be still and immediately fall back to 1Hz. The refresh rate can also rise and fall instantly in the scene we watch using input method or some waterfall data.

However, in a heavily loaded game scene, it may take more than 16.7ms for GPU to render a frame, which will lead to a new frame not coming when the screen needs to be refreshed. At this time, it is necessary to waste one frame to repeatedly display the old frame, thus delaying the refresh of the new frame and causing a certain display delay. In this case, Xiaomi 13 Pro can command the screen to wait and then refresh immediately after GPU rendering is completed. There is no need to repeatedly display old frames to match the screen refresh, further reducing the display delay and the sense of fragmentation of the picture.

The technology we introduced above is VRR variable refresh rate, which is an essential function for the next generation of game consoles and high-end PC graphics cards on the market. VRR breaks the tradition that the screen must be refreshed periodically at 16.7ms, but dynamically adjusts according to the output rhythm of the GPU, so that the screen can obtain the display delay equivalent to 120Hz even when it works in 60Hz mode. On Xiaomi 13 Pro, VRR supports more than 200 games including Genshin Impact, as well as apps such as Gaode Map and Baidu Map that need to change the refresh interval repeatedly.

Xiaomi 13 Pro's image system using Leica images can capture the dynamic range of the whole scene well, while the ultra-dynamic display technology on the screen is responsible for displaying the more realistic relationship between light and shade. When creating photos or videos, you can clearly show the broad trend from dark black to bright white. Highlights are brighter, dark details can be fully displayed, and the transition between different light and dark areas is very smooth, showing a visible sense of reality.

Xiaomi 13 Pro combines front and rear dual light perception and ambient color temperature perception to automatically adjust screen brightness and color temperature. The film also supports natural eye protection mode, which reduces the proportion of harmful blue light without obviously changing the color temperature of the content. Xiaomi 13 Pro has passed SGS low blue light certification, which can reduce harmful blue light and also support 1920Hz PWM visual strobe.

In the image part, Xiaomi 13 Pro adopts the same one-inch Sony IMX989 sensor as Ultra and Quad-Bayer pixel array. After fusion, the pixel reaches a single 3.2um.

The super-large single pixel area brings excellent noise control ability, and Xiaomi 13 Pro can still keep the picture pure even in dark scenes. This allows us to greatly reduce the intensity of the noise reduction algorithm and make the picture more restored. The large sensor size also brings more light, achieving better snapshot and freeze-frame ability; The one-inch sensor also provides a rare super-large single-frame dynamic range. Even if HDR is turned off, a single-frame dynamic range of 10.5 can be obtained.

This one-inch outsole sensor adopts four-in-one mode by default, and outputs1250,000 pixel photos. After zooming to 2 times, the sensor will automatically switch to the 50-megapixel mode to read the central pixel, realizing lossless 2 times zooming.

Xiaomi 13 Pro adopts three lenses, covering the optical zoom range of 0.6x-3.2x together with Leica. Xiaomi and Leica rely on high-speed computer simulation to greatly release the freedom and speed of lens design and pursue balanced design as much as possible. Each lens has passed Leica optical certification, with high resolution, large aperture and almost imperceptible distortion, which provides a solid foundation for excellent image quality.

The main lens of Xiaomi 13 Pro adopts aspheric mirror structure, which makes the design of optical path extremely flexible, not only reduces the lens size, but also makes the optical path of the lens highly match the angle of the surface microlens of IMX989, avoiding the signal interference between pixels, and the external light can converge correctly even at the edge of the image field.

Like 12 Ultra, the main camera is equipped with ALD optical coating, ink on the lens edge and new cycloolefin materials. The surface of infrared cut-off filter adopts spin coating technology, which greatly reduces glare, purple edge and ghost phenomenon. The light transmittance of the lens group is as high as 92%, and the reflectivity is as low as 0.2%, bringing a clear and pure picture. Support super-vision ultra-low optical image stabilization.

Referring to the design of SLR lens, Xiaomi 13 Pro innovatively uses the internal floating focusing lens group, which realizes the super focusing range from 10cm to infinity, and can shoot long-distance full-length portraits and fantastic super close-ups.

Floating focus lens group is the second revolution of mobile phone lens structure after periscope structure. The original telephoto is limited by the height of the module, and it is basically impossible to focus within 45cm. Therefore, when users need to shoot near objects or small objects with telephoto, the mobile phone will automatically fall back to the main camera to ensure that the picture is basically available, but the definition will be seriously damaged at this time.

Xiaomi 13 Pro divides the lens group inside the telephoto lens into upper and lower groups. The three lenses in the latter group have strong focusing ability and "float" inside the lens group when focusing, so it can achieve a super-large focusing range from 10cm to infinity in a limited formation, even exceeding the main camera of many mobile phones. This design is based on the "back focus" used in SLR 100 micron lens.

Therefore, on Xiaomi 13 Pro, telephoto cameras will never settle for second best because of the limited distance, which also enables these lenses to control the most extensive shooting scenes.

The floating lens enables this 75mm telephoto lens to take super close-ups. When it is away from the subject 10cm, the maximum magnification can be obtained, and the distortion is smaller than that of the super wide-angle lens.

In the face of the era of mobile photography, Xiaomi constantly seeks breakthroughs and jointly creates the third generation of mobile photography standards with Leica. Combining Leica's understanding of optics, hue and image quality with Xiaomi's experience in mobile computing photography, it brings brand-new image quality performance on smart phones. By highly fitting the tone color of Leica camera, Leica watermark, Leica customized shutter sound effect and other functions, it provides users with an experience closer to Leica camera.

Xiaomi 13 Pro retains Leica's original dual image quality in this picture, and reproduces the color and beauty of Leica's century-old picture with depth engine algorithm.

The proofs taken after opening Leica classics will not be too saturated and rich in color like the previous mobile phone shooting, but more inclined to the real style. The color control is neutral, the contrast of the whole picture is still maintained at a high level, and the light and dark parts are clearly distinguished. Moreover, thanks to the outsole sensor, the details of the front picture are clearly portrayed, the picture is truly restored, and the sense of space is extremely strong.

In terms of experience, Xiaomi 13 Pro brought the original Leica experience to the mobile phone, and the camera was implanted with the same Leica filter, Leica classic shutter sound and Leica watermark. Support master lens package, select the most classic legendary lens (35mm, 50mm, 75mm, 90mm), and simulate its special texture with software. Leica's dual image quality on Xiaomi 13 Pro has been upgraded to P3 wide color gamut, which can capture 25% more colors than the previous generation and greatly improve the expressive power of colors.

The most beautiful time of the day is one hour before and after sunset, which is the photographer's favorite golden moment. In this fleeting moment, the sky will show colorful and changeable colors, testing the color and dynamic range of the system. Relying on the wide color gamut capability, Xiaomi 13 Pro can restore the rich colors in this scene.

In terms of performance, Xiaomi 13 Pro is equipped with the second generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform. This time, Qualcomm provided a unique architecture design for the flagship platform of Snapdragon 8, adding a brand-new Cortex-A7 15 super-performance kernel. When performance is most needed, the combination of A7 15 and A7 10 brings strong and lasting performance. Based on the new TSMC 4mn process, the transistor density has increased by 20%. While improving performance, it reduces power consumption, and the energy consumption ratio is the best in the past three years.

The running score of Xiaomi 13 Pro Ann Bunny reached more than10.3 million.

Xiaomi 13 Pro Geekbench scored 5250 points.

The comprehensive performance of the second-generation Snapdragon 8 CPU is improved by 37%, the peak performance of the new Hypercore Cortex X3 is improved by 17% compared with the previous generation, and the performance core cluster of the new converged architecture A7 15+A7 10 is also improved by 50% compared with the previous generation, still maintaining the compatibility of 32-bit applications, and the energy efficiency core A5 10 is improved by 30%.

Compared with the first generation Snapdragon 8, the core size of the new Adreno GPU is increased by 50%, the performance is improved by 37%, and the power consumption is reduced by 16%. Adreno GPU has many features from the game console, such as VRS variable coloring rate, hardware-level ray tracing and so on. In the 3Dmark limit test, Xiaomi 13 Pro maintained a score of over 3,400, with the highest score of 3,742. The overall stability is close to 90%, even if the temperature is only 42 degrees, the energy efficiency control is in place.

The performance of the second generation Snapdragon 8 is improved, while the peak power consumption is greatly reduced, resulting in excellent energy efficiency ratio. Combined with the leading hardware strength and software tuning, the game performance of Xiaomi 13 has been greatly improved, especially in Genshin Impact.

Under the highest picture quality setting, the game can still get a stable average frame rate of 60.4fps when changing roles frequently in the abyss, and the higher-loaded Sumeru city running map can also maintain a higher frame rate range, ensuring an average frame rate of 57fps. Of course, the performance of the power-consuming part is also very eye-catching. After half an hour, the maximum temperature is around 40 degrees, which will not affect the grip comfort at all.

Xiaomi 13 Pro achieved an average of 59fps frames in the running map of Sumeru City.

Xiaomi 13 Pro is equipped with a self-developed 澎湃 chip and a Xiaomi 澎湃 battery management system. Xiaomi 13 Pro is equipped with a 4820mAh large-capacity battery, which supports 120W surge secondary charging and 50W wireless surge secondary charging, and is equipped with a brand-new small induction technology, which can reduce the temperature and improve the charging efficiency.

Xiaomi 13 series is pre-installed with a brand-new MIUI 14 system, which takes thinness and simplicity as the core and brings lasting and smooth operation experience. MIUI 14 Razor Plan greatly optimizes the system space occupation and reduces the number of non-uninstallable applications to six. The new photon engine not only makes the system smoother, but also opens up the capabilities of three-party applications, creating a smooth experience of the whole link. In addition, MIUI 14 also upgraded new widgets, which enhanced the end-side privacy capability and comprehensively upgraded the interoperability capability.

In addition, Xiaomi 13 Pro is equipped with10/6 ultra-wideband vibration motor, and the waveforms of hundreds of scenes have been redesigned to create a brand-new vibration experience. For the first time, the vibration motor is used as a "musical instrument" to cooperate with the bell, and the emotional vibration is completely designed, and the vibration experience is unprecedented.

In the past six months, the performance of Xiaomi's high-end products has gradually improved. Xiaomi 12S series and Xiaomi MIX FOLD 2, a folding screen mobile phone, have achieved very high praise rate on the e-commerce platform. At the same time, Xiaomi 12S series has been highly recognized by professional photographers and photographers for its powerful image strength.

This time, Xiaomi 13 Pro not only ensured the user experience, but also realized the real start of high-end products led by Xiaomi's comprehensive technology with its superior product strength. Through the substantial improvement of hardware performance and the deep cooperation of software and hardware, Xiaomi 13 Pro has a 360-degree high-end experience in performance, image, screen and battery life.