Oppo Find X8 review
Android 15 with Color OS 15.0 on top
The Find X8 is running Color OS 15 on top of an Android 15 core. Oppo's software update policy in store for the Find X8 includes 5 OS releases and 6 years of security updates - not bad at all.
Oppo says that ColorOS has received a visual overhaul with this release, but what we're seeing is more of a gentle facelift. Most notable in day-to-day operation is the restyling of the quick settings, now treated to a 'Now playing' widget and a reshuffling of the big bubbles.
Also somewhat readily visible is a refresh in the iconography. However, the settings menu, for example, is largely unchanged in its presentation, though the About screen does look nicer now. A new Flux Theme comes with redesigned widgets, icons and new smooth transitions between the Always-On Display, Lock Screen and the wallpaper.
Oppo says there is a new Luminous Rendering Engine. It apparently has over 800 redesigned animations across ColorOS 15 and features 18% faster touch response and 40% better stability.
Color OS on the Oppo Find X8 Pro
Of course, plenty of bits are sprinkled around Color OS with an AI label on them. Google's Circle to search doesn't say AI on the tin, but it comes standard and replaces the similar in functionality in-house AI Screen Recognition feature we saw on the Realme GT 7 Pro (and the 13 Pro+ before it). The Gemini AI assistant is on board, too.
Circle to search • Gemini
There's also an 'AI Toolbox', which is a set of utilities to help make your life easier - AI Summary will attempt to condense a text into a numbered list of key points, AI Speak will read a text out loud, and AI Writer will try and write a text for you. These are all accessible from the Smart Sidebar only when applicable, and you may not be able to find them directly with a search on the phone as standalone apps.
AI Toolbox
An AI Studio app is also present. It uses cloud-based generative AI to render photorealistic images in different styles based on a photo of yourself. It's a credit-based system as opposed to being unlimited, but you get a bunch of credits when you first sign up, and you can replenish them by being a regular on the app.
AI Studio
Then there's a handful of AI-based photo editing tools in the gallery - some were already on previous Color OS versions. AI Eraser, AI Ultra Clarity, and AI Unblur are more or less self-explanatory. The AI Editor can also be set to automatically suggest one of its tools when it sees fit.
AI Editor
Benchmarks and performance
Oppo went with the Dimensity 9400 for the Find X8 (also the Find X8 Pro). The Mediatec SoC isn't necessarily a bad option; it is a supremely powerful piece of kit manufactured using a 3nm process by TSMC.
The Dimesity's CPU uses an all-big-core design, with one 'prime' Cortex-X925 core (up to 3.63GHz), three Cortex-X4 units (2.3GHz), and four Cortex-A720 cores (2.4GHz). Madiatek promises it should be 35% more powerful than the D9300's processor in single-core tasks. The Immortalis-G925 GPU, meanwhile, should offer performance improvements of around 40%. Power efficiency should be up 40%, too, they say.
The Oppo Find X8 has a whole lot of available memory configurations, even more, in fact than the Find X8 Pro. You can get a unit with 256GB 12GB RAM, 256GB 16GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM or 1TB 16GB RAM. You get fast UFS 4.0 storage chips. Unfortunately, there is no storage expansion.
We already saw the D9400 in action in the vivo X200 Pro. The Find X8 and X8 Pro numbers are more or less in line with those results. The ROG Phone squeezes out a bit more performance through its performance mode and active external cooler. It is also interesting to note that the Dimensity 9400 is not that far from Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Elite. The Elite has a bit of an advantage in CPU scores, while the Dimensity 9400 has a bit of an edge in the GPU department.
GeekBench 6
- Multi-core
- Single-core
ROG Phone 9/9 Pro (X Mode+)
Realme GT 7 Pro
Oppo Find X8
Oppo Find X8 Pro
vivo X200 Pro
iPhone 16 Pro Max
nubia Z60 Ultra
AnTuTu is a much more compound benchmark with graphical and memory tests in its roster. It paints a very similar picture. Performance-wise, the Oppo Find X8 is definitely in the top bracket of current smartphones.
AnTuTu 10
ROG Phone 9/9 Pro (X Mode+)
vivo X200 Pro
Oppo Find X8
Realme GT 7 Pro
Oppo Find X8 Pro
Zenfone 11 Ultra
nubia Z60 Ultra
As already mentioned, the Dimensity 9400 and its Immortalis-G925 have a slight edge in GPU performance over the Snapdragon 8 Elite and the Adreno 830.
3DMark
- Wild Life Extreme (2160p)
- Solar Bay (1440p)
vivo X200 Pro
Oppo Find X8
Oppo Find X8 Pro
Realme GT 7 Pro
ROG Phone 9/9 Pro (X Mode+)
nubia Z60 Ultra Leading Edition
nubia Z60 Ultra
The Find X8 has a sophisticated cooling system with a high-efficiency vapor chamber, a graphite layer, and a highly conductive thermal gel placed within the dual-layer motherboard.
Under prolonged load, the Find X8 Pro behaved similarly to the vivo X200 Pro, recording a relatively gradual decline in performance in the CPU Throttling test, with a small peak somewhere down the line and a 65% lowest result.
Thermal throttling
Reader comments
- Raz
- 03 Dec 2024
- xjH
Global version can translate display from usb? Usb version 3.0 for global ver looks suspect
- Oppobiu
- 29 Nov 2024
- 0WJ
The phone would retail at $2k+ for those specs. The manufacturers have to make compromises relative to how much consumers are prepared to pay. Likely 2 cameras share a 1" sensor, the other two will have the same sensor as the X8 Pro. I...
- Anonymous
- 27 Nov 2024
- 1Gr
We have both the standard Find X8 and Find X8 Pro in Indonesia.