iQOO Neo10 Pro: The 3K-Price-Point Esports Flagship Champion, Delivering an Extreme Performance Experience with Dimensity 9400

iQOO Neo10 Pro: The 3K-Price-Point Esports Flagship Champion, Delivering an Extreme Performance Experience with Dimensity 9400The iQOO Neo series has always been dedicated to providing esports players with smartphones offering an extreme performance experience. From the end of last year to July this year, the iQOO Neo series has consecutively launched three generations of Pro-level products, equipped with top-tier mobile platforms such as the Dimensity 9300, Dimensity 9300+, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

iQOO Neo10 Pro: The 3K-Price-Point Esports Flagship Champion, Delivering an Extreme Performance Experience with Dimensity 9400

The iQOO Neo series has always been dedicated to providing esports players with smartphones offering an extreme performance experience. From the end of last year to July this year, the iQOO Neo series has consecutively launched three generations of Pro-level products, equipped with top-tier mobile platforms such as the Dimensity 9300, Dimensity 9300+, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Now, the iQOO Neo10 Pro makes a powerful debut, partnering with the world's first 3nm process mobile platform, the Dimensity 9400, and incorporating iQOO's self-developed esports chip, Q2, once again raising the bar for esports phone performance. This phone not only excels in performance but also boasts comprehensive upgrades in appearance design, battery life, and imaging system, providing users with a smoother, more comfortable, and comprehensive user experience.

I. Appearance Design: The Perfect Fusion of Racing Elements and a Slim Body

The iQOO Neo10 Pro adopts a unique Racing Orange color scheme, integrating the passion and vitality of motorsport into the phone's design. The combination of orange and black, complemented by a mosaic graphic treatment in the color transition area, creates a dynamic visual effect, as if injecting the speed and excitement of racing into the phone's very essence. The camera module continues the design of its predecessor, adding a decorative ring around the lenses, along with a light sensor, color temperature sensor, and a monochrome LED fill light, resulting in a more refined overall design.

The phone features an industry-leading ultra-narrow bezel design, with a bezel width of only 1.4mm on the top, left, and right sides, and 1.99mm on the bottom. This significantly reduces the bezel width, representing a substantial improvement over the previous Neo9 series. This not only delivers a stronger screen immersion but also makes the phone more compact and aesthetically pleasing. The top of the phone is equipped with an infrared remote control sensor and a noise-canceling microphone, while the bottom features an independent speaker opening, forming a symmetrical stereo sound field with the top earpiece speaker for a superior audio experience.

The iQOO Neo10 Pro adopts an industry-first straight-edged indium-wire mid-frame design, undergoing thousands of tests and eight meticulous processes to create a lightweight yet beautiful body structure. The seamless connection between the mid-frame and back cover enhances the overall texture and grip comfort. The power button and volume buttons are located on the right side of the phone for convenient operation. Furthermore, the phone comes standard with a 120W fast charging kit, providing users with a convenient and fast charging experience.

II. Performance and Gaming Experience: The Powerful Combination of Dimensity 9400 and Esports Chip Q2

The iQOO Neo10 Pro is equipped with MediaTek's latest 3nm process chip, the Dimensity 9400, and iQOO's self-developed esports chip, Q2. The combination of these two significantly enhances game performance, visual effects, controllability, and energy efficiency. The phone also comes standard with high-specification LPDDR5X Ultra (9600Mbps) memory and UFS 4.1 storage, forming a powerful "performance flagship trifecta" to ensure smooth and lag-free operation.

We will conduct theoretical performance tests and game performance tests on the iQOO Neo10 Pro (16GB+1TB version). During the testing process, we will disable memory expansion and enable performance mode (BOOST mode) to ensure the objectivity of the test results.

Theoretical Performance Test:

The AnTuTu benchmark score reached 2.92 million, representing a nearly 35% improvement over the previous generation iQOO Neo9 Pro. The CPU score was 584,700, a 15% increase, while the GPU score was 1,250,400, a 45% increase. This indicates a significant improvement in the overall performance of the iQOO Neo10 Pro.

Game Test:

• Under a 25-degree Celsius environment, we used two popular mobile games, Honor of Kings and Honkai: Star Rail, for testing, selecting the highest image quality and highest frame rate settings.

• Honor of Kings: In a 15-minute 5V5 team battle test, the average frame rate remained stable at 121.9 FPS, almost at full frame rate, with a frame rate fluctuation of only 0.1. The average power consumption was approximately 3.01W, and the energy efficiency ratio was 40.5 FPS/W. The maximum temperature on the back of the phone after the game did not exceed 35 degrees Celsius.

• Honkai: Star Rail: With the highest frame rate, highest image quality, and all effects enabled, a 15-minute test in the Stargazer Sea Central Hub showed an average frame rate of 59.5 FPS, with an average fluctuation of 2.5. The average power consumption was 4.76W, and the energy efficiency ratio was 12.49 FPS/W. The maximum temperature on the back of the phone after the game was approximately 37.3 degrees Celsius.

• The iQOO Neo10 Pro's esports chip Q2 supports super-resolution and frame interpolation concurrent processing for hundreds of mobile games, achieving breakthroughs in both image quality and frame rate. We tested the frame interpolation capability of the esports Q2 chip, increasing the native 60 FPS frame rate of Honkai: Star Rail to 144 FPS. The test results showed an average frame rate of 142.7 FPS, a nearly 2.4-fold improvement in picture continuity, while power consumption increased by only about 15.3%, and the energy efficiency ratio improved by approximately 108.2%. The maximum temperature on the back of the phone after the game was 39.7 degrees Celsius.

The esports chip Q2 allows users to freely switch between high frame rate mode and low power consumption mode according to their needs, flexibly balancing performance and power consumption for a more personalized gaming experience. In high-temperature environments, users can choose low power consumption mode; in low-temperature environments, they can choose high frame rate mode to ensure sustained stable and smooth gaming.

III. Imaging System: Flagship-Level Imaging Experience

The iQOO Neo10 Pro features a dual rear camera module. The main camera uses a Sony IMX921 large-sensor (1/1.56-inch), with a 23mm equivalent focal length, supporting OIS optical image stabilization and VCS bionic spectral technology. The ultra-wide-angle lens is a 50-megapixel Samsung S5KJN1 sensor (1/2.76-inch), with an f/2.0 large aperture, 15mm equivalent focal length, 119 field of view, and supports AF autofocus.

Main Camera: In daylight scenes, the sample images are clean, with slightly higher color saturation, resulting in vibrant and clear images with bright details. Even at 2x or 5x magnification, noise is well-controlled.

Night Scene: Under high exposure settings, clear and clean photos are captured, with excellent handling of lights and complex lighting environments. Even when cropping the image, noise increase is well-controlled.

Ultra-wide Angle: Under sufficient light conditions, the white balance is accurately adjusted with almost no color cast. Even in cloudy conditions, the image brightness is sufficient, showing a significant improvement compared to 8-megapixel sample images.

IV. Charging and Battery Life: The Perfect Combination of Long Battery Life and Fast Charging

The iQOO Neo10 Pro houses an equivalent 6100mAh dual-cell ultra-thin Blue Sea battery within a slim 7.99mm body, using third-generation silicon-carbon anode material, achieving a perfect balance between thinness and large battery capacity. It also supports up to 120W super-fast flash charging.

Charging Test: Actual test results show that it can be charged to approximately 50% in 10 minutes, 80% in 20 minutes, and fully charged in approximately 29 minutes.

Battery Life Test: Using the Battery Dog app from Kuaitech for professional battery life testing, simulating real user scenarios, the test results show that it takes 7 hours, 9 minutes, and 30 seconds to deplete from 100% to 20%, resulting in a full-charge battery life of nearly 8.5 hours, enough to meet daily usage needs.

V. Summary: The Esports Flagship Champion in the 3K Price Segment

As the third-generation Pro product of the iQOO Neo series, the iQOO Neo10 Pro achieves comprehensive performance and functionality in the 3K price segment with its Dimensity 9400 chip, 6100mAh ultra-thin Blue Sea battery, and standard ultrasonic 3D fingerprint recognition, with virtually no shortcomings. Its powerful performance,