Vivo X90 Pro vs X500 Pro
69
out of 100
VS
91
out of 100
Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.78-inch Vivo X90 Pro (with MediaTek Dimensity 9200) that was released on November 22, 2022, against the Vivo X500 Pro, which is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro and came out 3 years and 10 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Vivo X90 Pro
- Has a 0.42 inch larger screen size
- Supports higher wattage charging (120W versus 90W)
- Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
- Supports Dolby Atmos sound technology
Reasons to consider the Vivo X500 Pro
- 2.8x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (5016K versus 1781K)
- Comes with 1640 mAh larger battery capacity: 6510 vs 4870 mAh
- The rear camera has a 3.5x optical zoom
- Higher display refresh rate – 144 Hz
- Has 50% more RAM: 12GB versus 8GB
- Newer Bluetooth version (v6.0)
- Waterproof body (IP69 classification)
- The phone is 3 years and 10 months newer
- More recent OS version: Android 17 versus 14
- Compatible with Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | AMOLED | AMOLED |
| Size | 6.78 inches | 6.36 inches |
| Resolution | 1260 x 2800 pixels | 1216 x 2660 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 20:9 | 19.5:9 |
| PPI | 453 ppi | 460 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 144 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes | Yes (1-144 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 500 nits | 2000 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 1300 nits | 4500 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, Dolby Vision |
| Touch sampling rate | 300 Hz | 300 Hz |
| Screen protection | Tempered glass | Armor Glass |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 90.8% | 91% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
| RGB color space | 99.9% | - |
| PWM | 60 Hz | - |
| Response time | 1 ms | - |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | - |
Screen space comparison
X90 Pro
6.78″ (20:9 ratio) = 17.2 in2
X500 Pro
6.36″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 15.4 in2
~11% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 164.07 mm (6.46 inches) | 151.78 mm (5.98 inches) |
| Width | 74.53 mm (2.93 inches) | 71.92 mm (2.83 inches) |
| Thickness | 9.34 mm (0.37 inches) | 7.95 mm (0.31 inches) |
| Weight | 214.85 g (7.58 oz) | 192 g (6.77 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | IP69 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | Vapor chamber |
| Rear material | Glass | Glass |
| Frame material | Metal | Metal |
| Colors | Black, Red | White, Black, Silver, Orange |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | MediaTek Dimensity 9200 | MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro |
| Max clock | 3050 MHz | 4550 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) | 8 (2 + 3 + 3) |
| Architecture | - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Cortex-A510 - 3 cores at 2.85 GHz: Cortex-A715 - 1 core at 3.05 GHz: Cortex-X3 |
- 3 cores at 3.1 GHz: C2-Pro - 3 cores at 4.35 GHz: C2-Pro - 2 cores at 4.55 GHz: C2-Ultra |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 2 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | MediaTek APU 690 | MediaTek NPU 1090 |
| Graphics | ARM Immortalis-G715 | Mali-G2 Ultra NX MP12 |
| GPU shading units | 1408 | 1536 |
| GPU clock | 981 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~2762.5 GFLOPS | ~5529.6 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | - | 29102 |
| Single-core score | 2058 | 4055 |
| Multi-core score | 5465 | 11616 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 574314 | 1457703 |
| GPU | 468814 | 1937843 |
| Memory | 299490 | 508043 |
| UX | 438622 | 1123034 |
| Total score | 1781240 | 5016623 |
| Samples | Less than 3 | Less than 3 |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Graphics test | 10 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 1351 | - |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Graphics test | 21 FPS | - |
| Section 1 | 23 FPS | - |
| Section 2 | 22 FPS | - |
| Section 3 | 19 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 5571 | - |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | 80% | - |
| Graphics test | 21 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 3565 | - |
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (#5th place)
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5X |
| Memory clock | - | 5333 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Storage size | 256 GB | 256 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 4.1 |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 13 (Can be upgraded to Android 14) | Android 17 |
| ROM | Funtouch OS 13 | OriginOS 7 |
| OS size | 35 GB | - |
| OS updates | - | 5 years |
| Security updates | - | 7 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 4870 mAh | 6510 mAh |
| Max charge power | 120 W | 90 W |
| Battery type | Li-Po | Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (50 W) | Yes (40 W) |
| Reverse charging | Yes | Yes, (wireless) |
| Bypass charging | - | Yes |
| Fast charging | Yes (50% in 9 min) | Yes |
| Full charging time | 0:24 hr | - |
| Web browsing | 08:13 hr | - |
| Watching video | 12:57 hr | - |
| Gaming | 05:37 hr | - |
| Standby | 87 hr | - |
General battery life
Main camera
| Matrix | 50.3 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Zoom | Optical, 2x | Optical, 3.5x |
| Flash | Dual LED | Dual LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | Up to 24FPS | Up to 30FPS |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 240FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 120FPS |
| Slow motion | 960 FPS (1080p) | 240 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 108° | 119° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50.3 MP 2) Telephoto: 50 MP 3) Ultrawide: 12 MP |
1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 64 MP 3) Ultrawide: 50 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
| Image resolution | 50.3 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.8 | f/1.6 |
| Focal length | 23 mm | 24 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX989 | Sony LYTIA L910 |
| Sensor size | 1/1" (≈ 1 inch) | 1/1.28" (≈ 0.78 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.6 micron | 1.22 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | Laser autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 64 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.6 | f/2.5 |
| Focal length | 50 mm | 85 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX758 | Sony LYTIA L610 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.4" (≈ 0.42 inch) | 1/2.0" (≈ 0.5 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.7 micron | 0.7 micron |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 12 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.0 | f/2.0 |
| Focal length | 16 mm | 15 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX663 | Samsung S5KJN5 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.93" (≈ 0.34 inch) | 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.22 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 70 | - |
| Preview | 71 | - |
| Zoom | 141 | - |
| Samples | Photo samples of Vivo X90 Pro from DxOMark | - |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 32 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 6528 x 4896 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Aperture | f/2.5 | f/2.0 |
| Focal length | 24 mm | 20 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5KGD1 | Samsung S5KJN1 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.8" (≈ 0.36 inch) | 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.8 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Autofocus | No | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.3 | 6.0 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | Yes | Yes |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | Yes | Yes |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | Standby |
| eSIM support* | No | Yes |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 20 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes | No |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Flagship |
| Announced | November 2022 | September 2026 |
| Release date | December 2022 | October 2026 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $800 | $1299 |
| Successor | - Vivo X500 Pro | - |
| Sensors | - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Yes, 120 W | Not included |
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Vivo X500 Pro is definitely a better buy.
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