Xiaomi 17T Pro vs Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra

Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.83-inch Xiaomi 17T Pro (with MediaTek Dimensity 9500) that was released on May 28, 2026, against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and came out 1 year and 5 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi 17T Pro
  • Delivers 145% higher peak brightness (3507 against 1429 nits)
  • Comes with 2000 mAh larger battery capacity: 7000 vs 5000 mAh
  • Shows 28% longer battery life (36:42 vs 28:43 hours)
  • Higher display refresh rate – 144 Hz
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v6.0)
  • Supports higher wattage charging (100W versus 45W)
  • Slow-motion recording at 1920FPS
  • The phone is 1 year and 5 months newer
  • Has 2 SIM card slots
  • Has a built-in infrared port
Reasons to consider the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
  • 11% higher pixel density (498 vs 447 PPI)

Review

Evaluation of Xiaomi 17T Pro and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra crucial features
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
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)

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12 / 256 GB
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12 / 256 GB
56.8
(Average)
Value Index
38.2
(Mediocre)

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests

Display

Type AMOLED Dynamic AMOLED
Size 6.83 inches 6.9 inches
Resolution 1280 x 2772 pixels 1440 x 3120 pixels
Aspect ratio 19.5:9 19.5:9
PPI 447 ppi 498 ppi
Refresh rate 144 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (60-144 Hz) Yes (1-120 Hz)
Max rated brightness 1100 nits -
Max rated brightness in HDR 3500 nits 2600 nits
HDR support Yes, Dolby Vision Yes, HDR10+
Touch sampling rate 480 Hz 240 Hz
Screen protection Corning Gorilla Glass 7i Corning Gorilla Armor 2
Screen-to-body ratio 91.1% 92.4%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
Display tests
RGB color space 99.7% 97.7%
PWM 120 Hz 240 Hz
Response time 1 ms 1 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
17T Pro +145%
3507 nits
1429 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 162.2 mm (6.39 inches) 162.8 mm (6.41 inches)
Width 77.5 mm (3.05 inches) 77.6 mm (3.06 inches)
Thickness 8.25 mm (0.32 inches) 8.2 mm (0.32 inches)
Weight 219 g (7.72 oz) 218 g (7.69 oz)
Waterproof IP68 IP68
Advanced cooling Vapor chamber Vapor chamber
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Metal Metal
Colors Black, Blue, Purple Black, Silver, Gray, Blue
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Repairability - Good (3.23/5)
Drop resistance - Excellent (A) · 270 drops
Screen-to-body ratio
91.1%
92.4%

Performance

Chipset specifications of Xiaomi 17T Pro and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
SoC
Chipset MediaTek Dimensity 9500 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
Max clock 4210 MHz 4470 MHz
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 4) 8 (2 + 6)
Architecture - 4 cores at 2.7 GHz: C1-Pro
- 3 cores at 3.5 GHz: C1-Premium
- 1 core at 4.21 GHz: C1-Ultra
- 6 cores at 3.53 GHz: Oryon (Phoenix M)
- 2 cores at 4.32 GHz: Oryon (Phoenix L)
L3 cache 16 MB 8 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Lithography process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek NPU 990 Hexagon
GPU
Graphics Mali-G1 Ultra MP12 Adreno 830
GPU shading units 1536 1536
GPU clock 1716 MHz 1100 MHz
FLOPS ~5271.5 GFLOPS ~3379.2 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Xiaomi 17T Pro and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
17T Pro +4%
3334
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
22721
26581
Compute Score (GPU) 22721 26581
Single-core score 3334 3202
Multi-core score 10348 10347
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
17T Pro +6%
3323591
CPU 933780 987646
GPU 1300550 1190760
Memory 397001 362214
UX 692260 587932
Total score 3323591 3128552
Samples [25 tests] [66 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Stability - 61%
Graphics test - 17 FPS
Graphics score - 2272
3DMark Solar Bay
Graphics test - 40 FPS
Section 1 - 50 FPS
Section 2 - 40 FPS
Section 3 - 29 FPS
Graphics score - 10441
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Stability - 56%
Graphics test - 34 FPS
Graphics score - 5827
Sources: 3DMark [5]
PCMark 3.0
Web score - 21582
Video editing - 8625
Photo editing - 34425
Data manipulation - 17556
Writing score - 26844
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (61st and 85th place)

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Xiaomi 17T Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-27 (hi)AnTuTu 123413066
📘 2026-09-25 (Zloto120)AnTuTu 123448034
📘 2026-09-22 (Máximo)AnTuTu 123660205
📘 2026-09-19 (hi)AnTuTu 123291469
📘 2026-08-22 (Querty)AnTuTu 113415483
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-29 (VortexGen)AnTuTu 123414404
📘 2026-09-06 (Trexsotiy)Battery lifeSOT 12:30 / 03:16
📘 2026-09-02 -> Mohamed_136Battery lifeSOT 8:02 / 17:11
📘 2026-08-29 (PaWK)AnTuTu 113034536
📘 2026-08-23 (Apple Slayer)AnTuTu 113254557

Memory

RAM
RAM size 12 GB 12 GB
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory clock 5333 MHz 5300 MHz
Channels 4 4
Storage
Storage size 256 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 4.1 UFS 4.0
Memory card No No

Software

Operating system Android 16 Android 15 (Can be upgraded to Android 16)
ROM HyperOS 3 One UI 8.0
OS size 35.4 GB 30.4 GB
OS updates 5 years 7 years
Security updates 6 years 7 years

Battery

Capacity 7000 mAh 5000 mAh
Max charge power 100 W 45 W
Battery type Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) Li-Ion
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging Yes (50 W) Yes (25 W)
Reverse charging Yes, (wireless) Yes, (wireless)
Bypass charging No Yes
Fast charging Yes (72% in 30 min) Yes (72% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:44 hr 0:59 hr
Battery cycles - 2000 cycles
Battery life tests
Web browsing 18:30 hr 11:10 hr
Watching video 24:44 hr 19:32 hr
Gaming 09:34 hr 06:22 hr
Standby 131 hr 132 hr
General battery life
17T Pro +28%
36:42 hr
28:43 hr

Main camera

Matrix 50 megapixels 200 megapixels
Image resolution 8192 x 6144 16320 x 12240
Zoom Optical, 5x Optical, 5x
Flash Dual LED LED
Stabilization Optical Optical
8K video recording Up to 30FPS Up to 30FPS
4K video recording Up to 120FPS Up to 120FPS
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 240FPS
Slow motion 1920 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Angle of widest lens 120° 120°
Lenses 1) Standard: 50 MP
2) Telephoto: 50 MP
3) Ultrawide: 12 MP
1) Standard: 200 MP
2) Telephoto: 50 MP
3) Telephoto: 10 MP
4) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Camera features - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- RAW support
- Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- RAW support
Standard lens
Image resolution 50 MP 200 MP
Aperture f/1.7 f/1.7
Focal length 23 mm 23 mm
Sensor Omnivision 950 LightHunter Samsung ISOCELL S5KHP2
Sensor size 1/1.31" (≈ 0.76 inch) 1/1.3" (≈ 0.77 inch)
Pixel size 1.2 micron 0.6 micron
Autofocus Phase autofocus Laser autofocus
Stabilization Optical Optical
Telephoto lens
Image resolution 50 MP 50 MP
Aperture f/3.0 f/3.4
Focal length 115 mm 111 mm
Sensor Samsung S5KJN5 Sony IMX854
Sensor size 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) 1/2.52" (≈ 0.4 inch)
Pixel size 0.64 micron 0.7 micron
Stabilization Optical Optical
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 12 MP 50 MP
Aperture f/2.2 f/1.9
Focal length 15 mm 13 mm
Sensor OmniVision OV13B Samsung ISOCELL S5KJN3
Sensor size 1/3.0" (≈ 0.33 inch) 1/2.5" (≈ 0.4 inch)
Pixel size 1.12 micron 0.7 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
Bokeh - 165
Preview - 81
Zoom - 137
Samples - Photo samples of Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra from DxOMark

Selfie camera

Megapixels 32 megapixels 12 megapixels
Image resolution 6560 x 4928 4000 x 3000
Aperture f/2.2 f/2.2
Focal length 21 mm 26 mm
Sensor Samsung S5KKD1 Samsung S5K3LU
Sensor size 1/3.42" (≈ 0.29 inch) 1/3.2" (≈ 0.31 inch)
Pixel size 0.64 micron 1.12 micron
Autofocus No Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel)
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 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) 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 6.0 5.4
Bluetooth features LE LE
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 2 3.2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
DisplayPort No Yes, DP 1.2
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port Yes No
Network
Number of SIM* 2 1
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
eSIM support* Yes Yes
Hybrid slot No No
5G support Yes Yes

Sound

Speakers Stereo Stereo
Headphone audio jack No No
FM radio No No
Dolby Atmos Yes Yes
Speakers test
Max loudness
83.6 dB
93 dB

Other

Category Flagship Flagship
Announced May 2026 January 2025
Release date May 2026 February 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $899 $1299
Successor - - Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
SAR (head) - 1.25 W/kg
SAR (body) - 1.42 W/kg
Sensors - Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
- Hall-effect sensor
- Barometer
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
Bundled charger Not included Not included
Further details
Notes on Galaxy S25 Ultra:
    - Supports up to 2 eSIMs. The international model has 2 physical SIM slots, while the U.S. version has 1.
    - Uses Grade 5 titanium and Corning Gorilla Armor 2 glass on both sides.
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.

Conclusion

If the gaming and battery life are more important to you, then choose the Xiaomi 17T Pro. But if the sound is more of a priority – go for the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

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