Oppo Find X8 Pro review

Android 15 with Color OS 15.0 on top

The Find X8 Pro is running Color OS 15 on top of an Android 15 core. The software update policy that Oppo has in store for the Find X8 Pro 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. But the settings menu, for example, is largely unchanged in its presentation, though the About screen does look nicer now.

Color OS on the Oppo Find X8 Pro

Of course, there's plenty of bits 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 when applicable and you may not be able to directly find them 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 of those were already here on previous Color OS versions. AI Eraser, AI Ultra Clarity, AI Unblur - these 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

Performance and benchmarks

Oppo went with the Dimensity 9400 for the Find X8 Pro (also the Find X8 non-Pro) - there's no Snapdragon 8 Elite to be found here - possibly the Ultra will get the Qualcomm chip. The Mediatec SoC isn't necessarily a bad option though, itself a supremely powerful piece of kit manufactured on 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 Find X8 Pro can be had in a number of memory configurations, starting from 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM and going all the way up to 1TB and 16GB. RAM should be LPDDR5X and our 512GB/16GB review unit test results suggested it uses UFS 4.0, too.

We already saw the D9400 in action on the vivo X200 Pro and the Find's numbers are more or less in line with what we got out of the video, though there were some differences. The Oppo had a bit of an advantage in CPU scores, but the vivo proved slightly more potent in the graphics department. The Dimensity's results aren't all that different from the Elite either, the Find being a little bit behind the Realme GT 7 Pro in CPU scores, but snatching a narrow GPU victory.

Under prolonged load, the Find X8 Pro behaved in a very similar fashion 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 60% lowest result (the vivo was ever so slightly better at 65%). The Oppo did perform slightly better in the Wild Life Extreme stress test, its 58% stability rating besting the 53% of the vivo, and also doing a few more high-performance runs. The Snapdragon-powered Realme GT 7 Pro did return a 71% result in this test, though.

CPU Throttling test • Wild Life Extreme stress test