vivo X200 Pro review

Android 15 and Origin OS (Funtouch on the way)

The X200 Ultra is among the Android 15 pioneers - a new OS core is always a welcome sight. The review unit we have is still the Chinese version, so it has an in-house layer of Origin OS 5 on top. There should be an international version eventually, running vivo's other branch of proprietary software, Funtouch OS.

This latest Origin version comes with more rounded visuals, but things aren't substantially different than the Android 14/Origin 4 combo we saw on the X100 Ultra. Sure enough, the phone comes with a bunch of China-specific apps pre-installed, but they can be removed if you can't wait for the global firmware and get the X200 Pro as is. We didn't encounter too many instances of non-translated settings screens or other menu items - obviously, the Chinese apps will greet you in Chinese, but that's about it.

Origin OS 5 on the vivo X200 Pro

As with other Chinese ROMs, you can expect to see a more granular approach to permissions than what we're used to with international builds, though that's not necessarily a bad thing, and it doesn't get in the way once you do get yourself all set up. One roadblock, as usual, is the lack of Google Location History logging. That should all be a non-issue on the international X200 Pros, of course.

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Performance and benchmarks

The vivo X200 Pro continues in the footsteps of previous Pros in the vivo lineup and comes equipped with a high-end Mediatek chip instead of the Snapdragons that most Android flagships use. The one in particular here is the latest Dimensity 9400, a brand-new 3nm chip.

It's another of Mediatek's all-big-core CPU designs - the processor uses one 'prime' Cortex-X925 core (up to 3.63GHz), three Cortex-X4 units (2.3GHz), and four Cortex-A720 cores (2.4GHz). They promise up to 35% higher single-core performance and up to 28% higher multi-core performance compared to the previous model (D9300), while also improving power efficiency by up to 40%.

The Immortalis-G925 GPU, meanwhile, should offer improvements of around 40% in peak performance, ray-tracing performance and efficiency. Also new is the LPDDR5X RAM support.

Memory configurations start at 256GB/12GB and reach up to 1TB/16GB. Storage speeds for our top-spec review unit were consistent with the numbers you'd expect from UFS 4.0.

Indeed, the X200 Pro comfortably outperforms the current top-tier chipsets in all benchmarks. We got 24% higher single-core results compared to the X100 Pro's D9300, and 18% higher multi-core figures - not quite the promised improvements, but a noticeable step up still. In 3DMark, the X200 Pro recorded a 49% improvement in the Solar Bay benchmark that tests ray-tracing performance and a 39% increase in the Wild Life Extreme result - quite the feat.

While peak performance does look remarkable, sustained performance under maximum load isn't quite as impressive - though, realistically, that's typically the case with all high-end chipsets.

In the CPU Throttling test, the X200 Pro's performance dropped to 65% of the initial result, but at least it was relatively stable and not too erratic in its behavior.

The 3DMark Wild Life Extreme stress returned a 53% stability rating with a relatively quick decline in the results after the first couple of runs.

CPU Throttling test • Wild Life Extreme stress test