Vivo iQOO Z1 Gaming phone review: 144Hz display & MTK Dimensity 1000 Plus first debut By gizmochina

Hello everyone I'm Kiran from gizmo China today we're going to give you a gaming review of the latest haiku gaming phone, the ICU z1 5g. We chose the z1 because MediaTek the latest flagship chipset, the Mt Made immensity 1000, plus first debuted on this model. We've seen a lot of gaming phones, equipping snapdragon 865 chips this year, which generally are relatively high price, so we're waiting for a more affordable one to come through, which is also competitive on performance. Although AIK has brought out ICU three and another ICU kneeled three since January, it seems that the brand is not satisfied with that and is trying to cover a wider price of gaming market. As a result, the cheaper z1 model comes and the Mt Made immensity 1000 plus comes as well. It's a bit boring that there only a few Snapdragon options for most smartphones to pursue superb gaming performance for recent years.

Although we learned that Huawei Korean series is working so hard to catch up, we're only able to have cure and chipsets on the hallway devices. However, the MTV Diamond City series is more possible to stand up as the Challenger in Snapdragon for Android brands. It would also be too early to say last year, but in 2020 the Snapdragon Series probably need to make some aggressive progress, as MDK really threatens their leading position. But before talking about his performance, let's look at the 1080p 144 Hertz LCD of the z1. It also features an HDR 10 colors to support HDR graphics in some games.

We did not expect too much over its colors but check it by eyes. It's probably one of the best 144 hertz LCD smartphone displays as it covers 96% of NTSC colors, like previous models running the MTV chipsets. The IQ z1 also has a pretty competitive price, starting at around 2200 RMB equal to 310 US dollars. Most 5g models running the snapdragon 865 are priced relatively higher than the flagships released last year, even compared to the cheapest snapdragon 865 model. The Iconic 3 starts from 380 USD.

The z1 still has an advantage over the price, but is the demesne 'ti 1000, plus as powerful as a snapdragon 865. Let's see the results on some benchmark, apps in an tutu benchmark the z1, scored over five hundred twenty thousand points, but there's still a remarkable gap if compared to the 597 thousand points of the Neo 3 running the snapdragon 865. But we can see that the GPU performance of the MTV chipset is much closer to the snapdragon than ever, and we found that the snapdragon 865 speak. CPU frequency is also a bit leading at 2841 megahertz. Well, the demesne d, 1000 plus, could run up to two thousand five hundred forty-nine megahertz, and then we moved to the Geek bench five and three D marks.

The results showed the same facts. The performance gap existed, but not really, a big one about actual gaming tests. We have to say that the gaming experience is not really different from what we have on the snapdragon 865 platforms, since there are very few games requiring extremely high CPU or GPU performance of Android phones, most games, which only supports up to a 60 FPS frame rate. The z1 was demesne t1000 plus could stability complete gaming, test 60fps averagely, even under the highest graphics settings in these kinds of games, for example, an NBA 2k 20, which has a 60 FPS frame rate limit. The IQ z1 stability run at 59.9 fps under the highest graphics settings and in Call of Duty mobile, also with 60fps frame rate limit when matches on the frame rate is also stable, as it is in NBA 2k 20, which averagely remained at 59 point 8 fps, but there are still some games even lock the frame rate under 30 FPS, like asphalt 9 in Nashville 9. Although the z1 got studded, sometimes it could also reach at 29 FPS averagely.

Then we found some games which may not limit frame rates on Android platforms such as the game grim valor, because our tested tool cannot record the frame rate over 125 fps. We can see actually the z1 could run this game at over 125 fps and achieved a super smooth gaming experience with its 144 Hertz display, but we also found that it sometimes dropped to 90 FPS. The possible reason here has been discussed in the last video of the ICU Neo 3. It could be an active strategy of IQ system to maintain a balance between temperature and gaming fluency. The same result occurred to the gameplay of shadow gun Legends.

At the beginning it touched the 90 FPS frame rate and then dropped to stable at around 60 FPS frame rate. The overall frame rate eventually remained at 65 point 3 FPS averagely, but according to the results of the OnePlus 8 pro on the same game, which is not allowed to get over 60 FPS, the z one's results is already good enough, and then we tried 120 FPS mode on PU BG mobile. The active calm down situation also existed. Sometimes it reached up to 120 fps, but generally stayed in the level of 90 FPS. Even so, the average frame rate still remained at ninety-five point: five fps at the last game we did a stress test, as we did before 15-minute tests on Demean legends.

Well, this time we eventually reached the limit of the demesne t1000 Plus compared to the IQ Neo 3. The Z, once performance in this round is much weaker. The Neo 3 could average Li run at 60 3.39 FPS, while the figure of the z1 is only 41 point 5, and it also got the 90 FPS limit. So accordingly, we have to say, there's still a remarkable performance gap between the snapdragon 865 and the demesne t1000, plus how everyone playing most android games. The gap is really hard to perceive due to these games, frame rates, limits and lower performance require and considering it's an attractive price.

We still recommend it as an excellent 2020 gaming foam, but compared to other professional gaming phones like red magic 5g in black shard 3 Pro, there's no shoulder buttons for better gaming operation, which should be considered as a drawback on a gaming phone. One more thing, I have to praise is the cooling system. As we mentioned, the active strategy of frame rate limit could provide an excellent cooling effect in actual gaming. So, during almost all the tests we did, the device was not overheated at all and after one hour, PU BG mobile gaming tests. The temperature is only thirty-nine point.

Seven degrees Celsius, which is pretty impressive in the aspect of charging, the included 44 watt charger is so powerful that it only took us 23 minutes to charge back to 50% of power and 64 minutes for a full charge and the one hour, PU VG mobile gameplay only consumed around 16% of power. Accordingly, it could be expected to last for around 6 hours of gameplay. So that's it as we concluded, there's a remarkable performance gap between the snapdragon 865 in the demesne t1000, plus both as flagship chipsets. However, when playing most Android games, the gap is really hard to perceive due to those games, frame rate limit and low performance required and considering its attractive price. We still recommend it as an excellent 2020 gaming phone.

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