Realme Neo7: In-Depth Review Performance, Battery Life, and Quality Surpass Expectations, Creating a "Durable War God" for Young Gamers

Realme Neo7: In-Depth Review Performance, Battery Life, and Quality Surpass Expectations, Creating a "Durable War God" for Young GamersThe Realme GT Neo series, after five generations of iterative improvements, has garnered significant attention in the mid-range market thanks to continuous breakthroughs in technology and design. Innovative features like the industry-first 240W fast charging, a 6000nit peak brightness display, and the popularization of 1TB storage have cemented its unique position in the mid-range segment

Realme Neo7: In-Depth Review Performance, Battery Life, and Quality Surpass Expectations, Creating a "Durable War God" for Young Gamers

The Realme GT Neo series, after five generations of iterative improvements, has garnered significant attention in the mid-range market thanks to continuous breakthroughs in technology and design. Innovative features like the industry-first 240W fast charging, a 6000nit peak brightness display, and the popularization of 1TB storage have cemented its unique position in the mid-range segment. Now, the Neo series has officially branched out, focusing on "superior performance, leading gaming experience, and trendy technology design," precisely targeting the needs of young users. As the first product in this independent Neo series, the Realme Neo7, positioned as a "Durable War God," sets a new benchmark in performance, battery life, and quality, providing a strong foundation for gamers.

I. Appearance and Design: A Perfect Fusion of Starship Aesthetics and Ergonomics

The Realme Neo7's design is inspired by starships, breaking away from traditional matrix camera layouts with an innovative geometrically cut design. Precise metal processing gives the camera area a unique visual identity. The overall design incorporates ergonomic principles, particularly considering the player's landscape-mode grip. The clever addition of a "War God fulcrum" provides extra support for the fingers, enhancing operational flexibility and grip stability. This third point of support, in addition to the palms, significantly improves grip comfort and control precision, allowing for effortless and comfortable gameplay even during extended sessions.

The front features a 6000nit high-brightness, eye-protection gaming straight screen, offering gamers a clear and detailed visual experience under various lighting conditions. This screen utilizes hardware-level full-brightness DC dimming technology, effectively reducing screen flicker, lowering power consumption, and protecting eyes, especially during nighttime use. Screen brightness is exceptional, with a manual maximum brightness of 1000nit, a global peak brightness of 1600nit, and a local peak brightness of 6000nit, ensuring clear visibility even in bright sunlight. Furthermore, the Realme Neo7 supports flagship-level 8-bit LTPO adaptive high refresh rate technology, allowing for seamless adjustment between 1Hz and 120Hz, providing a smooth and natural transition across different applications for an ultimate visual experience.

The phone boasts excellent bezel control, with a centrally placed 16MP front camera at the top. Independent speaker openings are located at both the top and bottom, creating a stereo surround sound effect for an immersive audio experience. The top also features an infrared remote control sensor for convenient home appliance control. The power and volume buttons are located on the same side for easy one-handed operation. The package includes an 80W fast charger for convenient charging.

II. Performance and Gaming Experience: Dimensity 9300+ Flagship Chip, Effortless Handling of Large-Scale Games

The Realme Neo7 is powered by the Dimensity 9300+, a 4nm flagship chip, paired with Realme's GT performance engine. This powerful combination significantly enhances visual effects, operational smoothness, and energy efficiencyparticularly in gaming performance, where the Realme Neo7 surpasses its competitors in the same price range.

The Realme Neo7 comes standard with LPDDR5X and UFS 4.0 storage, forming a "performance flagship trifecta" within its price range, laying a solid foundation for high-performance operation. The test device used was the 16GB+1TB top configuration. To ensure accurate and objective test results, the memory expansion function was disabled, and performance mode (GT mode) was enabled during both theoretical performance and gaming tests.

Theoretical Performance Tests

The AnTuTu benchmark score approached 2.3 million, exceeding other Dimensity 9300+ phones by nearly 50,000, showcasing the Realme Neo7's excellent performance tuning capabilities. The GeekBench 6 single-core score was 2273, and the multi-core score was 7423. Flash memory tests showed sequential read speeds of 3795.71 MB/s, sequential write speeds of 3345.02 MB/s, random read speeds of 389.11 MB/s, and random write speeds of 459.7 MB/sfully meeting UFS 4.0 standards.

Gaming Tests

The gaming test environment was a 25C office. The test games were Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, both run at the highest graphics and frame rate settings, recording frame rate, power consumption, power efficiency ratio, and body temperature during gameplay.

1. Genshin Impact: During a 15-minute test at the highest graphics and frame rate, the average frame rate remained stable at 59.7 FPS, with a fluctuation of only 1.4, and virtually no lag. Average power consumption was below 5W, at approximately 4.7W, with a power efficiency ratio of 12.69 FPS/W. Thanks to the industry's largest single-piece VC heat dissipation (7700 mm), the highest temperature after gameplay was below 40C, with the hottest area (38.6C) located to the right of the camera module, making it almost imperceptible even when held horizontally.

2. Honkai: Star Rail: During a 15-minute test at the highest frame rate, graphics, and with all effects enabled, the average frame rate remained stable at 58.5 FPS, with an average fluctuation of 3. The average power consumption was 4.43W, remaining below 5W under high load, demonstrating excellent power efficiency (13.2 FPS/W). The highest temperature on the back of the phone was 38.8C.

The gaming test results demonstrate that Realme Neo7's GT performance engine, through frame-level precise frequency modulation technology, effectively avoids performance waste, resolving issues such as frame rate drops, lag, and high power consumption, providing players with a consistently smooth gaming experience.

Furthermore, the Realme Neo7 features the Dimensity 9300+ platform's first chip-level super-frame rate function. Compared to traditional dedicated display super-frame rate technology, this function offers lower latency and lower power consumption, effectively reducing screen tearing. Tests showed that this function can increase the frame rate of Honkai: Star Rail from 60 FPS to 90 FPS, resulting in smoother gameplay and a superior visual experience.

III. Charging and Battery Life: 7000mAh Titan Battery, Leading Battery Life

The Realme Neo7 is the first performance phone to combine a 7000mAh ultra-large capacity battery with 80W fast charging. This battery, jointly developed by Realme and CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited), represents a breakthrough for mid-range phones, increasing battery capacity from 6000mAh to 7000mAh, offering the best battery life in its price range. Through a folded circuit board design, the Realme Neo7 keeps its thickness to 8.5mm, making it the industry's thinnest 7000mAh phone.

Charging Test

A screen-off charging test, starting from 1% battery, showed that the phone reached 30% in 10 minutes, 53% in 20 minutes, 72% in 30 minutes, 89% in 40 minutes, and was fully charged in 53 minutes. This charging speed is remarkably impressive for a 7000mAh battery.

Battery Life Test

Battery life was tested using the Battery Dog app. The test included CPU high pressure, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback, and web browsing, simulating real-world usage scenarios. During the test, screen brightness was set to 50%, volume to 30%, and auto-brightness was turned off.

The test results showed that the Realme Neo7 lasted 10 hours, 32 minutes, and 44 seconds from 100% to 20%, translating to an approximate full-charge battery life of 12 hours. This result not only ranked first in the Battery Dog's Dimensity 9300+ phone battery life rankings but also represents the longest battery life among all tested Dimensity 9300+ phones.

IV. Imaging System: 50MP OIS Dual Camera, Meeting Daily Shooting Needs

The Realme Neo7 features a rear dual-camera module with a 50MP main Sony IMX882 sensor featuring a 1/2-inch photosensitive unit and OIS optical image stabilization. The other lens is an 8MP ultra-wide-angle lens with a 112 field of view.

Main Camera

Daytime shots show accurate white balance, true-to-life color reproduction, and avoidance of color distortion. Thanks to the Super Light Engine, even 2x cropping maintains high image quality with excellent detail retention.

Night Photography

In night mode, high exposure captures clear and clean photos with excellent control of light and noise, maintaining good detail even after cropping.