Oppo RX17 Pro hands-on review

Performance and benchmarks

The Oppo RX17 Pro runs on the Snapdragon 710 chipset - it's one of Qualcomm's best mid-range chipsets. It sits above the Snapdragon 660 and below the Snapdragon 835 and 845, aiming to bring flagship functionality down to the middle class. Some of those advanced features include a Spectra 250 image signal processor that can perform multi-frame noise reduction in images and has some depth-sensing AI smarts, baked right in.

There is also the new X15 LTE modem, which delivers 4X4 MIMO and nearly gigabit downlink speeds.

The Snapdragon 710 has an octa-core processor with two high-speed Kryo 360 Gold (based on Cortex-A75) cores ticking at 2.2GHz and six efficient Kryo 360 Silver cores (A55-based) clocked at 1.7GHz. There is also a new Adreno 616 GPU to handle your favorite games.

And now let's run some benchmarks!

Well, the Kryo 360 cores are indeed faster than the Kryo 260 inside the Snapdragon 660 (Oppo R15 Pro), though not by a large margin.

GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)

Higher is better

• OnePlus 6T
  2431
• Oppo Find X
  2322
• Honor Play
  1899
• Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
  1890
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  1837
• Oppo R15 Pro
  1612
• Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  1595
• Oppo R15
  1520
• Nokia 7.1
  1344

The combined power of all cores is quite impressive for the class - it almost matches the Kirin 970 (Honor Play), and outperforms the Snapdragon 660 CPU inside the R15 Pro.

GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• OnePlus 6T
  8977
• Oppo Find X
  8018
• Honor Play
  6696
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  5953
• Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
  5908
• Oppo R15 Pro
  5809
• Oppo R15
  5806
• Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  5574
• Nokia 7.1
  4975

Moving on to graphics, Qualcomm managed to position the graphical prowess of the Adreno 616 inside the Snapdragon 710 quite neatly in-between the Adreno 512 (Snapdragon 660, Oppo R15 Pro) and the Adreno 630 (Snapdragon 845). Once again, filling the same performance niche between mid-range and flagship chips.

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)

Higher is better

• OnePlus 6T
  53
• Oppo Find X
  50
• Honor Play
  36
• Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
  22
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  20
• Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  13
• Oppo R15 Pro
  12
• Nokia 7.1
  9.7

GFX 3.1 Car scene (onscreen)

Higher is better

• OnePlus 6T
  31
• Oppo Find X
  28
• Honor Play
  21
• Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
  12
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  11
• Oppo R15 Pro
  7.6
• Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  6.7
• Nokia 7.1
  5.9

The AnTuTu score tell the same story - the Oppo RX17 Pro offers great performance - better than the current crop of mid-rangers but lesser than the latest flagships.

AnTuTu 7

Higher is better

• OnePlus 6T
  293994
• Oppo Find X
  291218
• Honor Play
  204876
• Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
  170218
• Oppo RX17 Pro
  168455
• Oppo R15 Pro
  146526
• Oppo R15
  140161
• Huawei Mate 20 Lite
  136583
• Nokia 7.1
  117175

Well, the Oppo RX17 Pro seems well-equipped to handle all kind of tasks. It has a great processor, while its GPU will handle 1080p content effortlessly. There are also all kind of advanced features within the relatively new chipset, and finally - the RX17 Pro doesn't seem to be heating up that much.