Introducing the OPPO Find X9 Pro. This phone is the first next-generation phone that we’re reviewing. By next generation, I mean it uses the new generation of chipset – particularly the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 in this case. The new OPPO Find X9 Pro comes with a bunch of different upgrades – so is it great or is it not?
Design
Okay, let’s start off with the design. The OPPO Find X9 Pro comes with a brand new design that I think is a lot sleeker than before as the camera bump is now tucked nicely at the corner.
While the one we are showing here is the Silk White color variant, the Titanium Charcoal actually looks mighty fine. We don’t have any fancy textures or designs on the back panel this time around – which I think is a little out of character, but I truly appreciate the simplicity this time.
One more thing that I think might be polarizing is that the Find X9 Pro uses a completely flat back panel, and also a completely flat screen. I personally like this as screen protectors just work better.
Screen
Speaking of the screen, this OPPO Find X9 Pro touted to have one of the best displays with the thinnest bezel of any OPPO phone, measuring at only 1.15mm. Yeah, the bezels are thin – but is the display good?
Well, this is a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2772×1272 pixels, and goes up to 120Hz refresh rate as well. Phones are now higher resolution than the standard 1080p – which is great.
So, when we tested the display using our colorimeter, this display can reach a maximum of around 1270 nits in auto brightness mode. Quite good, I’d say, though not the best that I’ve personally tested.
As for the color accuracy, this phone has 3 different color profiles. The default one is the Standard profile and it covers 98.41% of sRGB and 71.96% of DCI-P3 color gamuts alongside low ΔE numbers. As a quick recap, having a low DCI-P3 color gamut coverage means the colors are not saturated.
Switching it over to the Natural color profile though, will result in a color gamut coverage of 98.13% in sRGB and 71.52% of DCI-P3. I’m not sure why this color profile exists since it’s so similar to the standard color profile.
The third color profile is the Vivid color profile. As the name suggests, it is going to be vivid as it covers 99.97% of sRGB and 98.85% of DCI-P3 color gamuts. The maximum ΔE number should be an outlier, as the average is so low.
Overall, this display is pretty typical, I’d say. Compared to the previous generation, the new OPPO Find X9 Pro’s display has some improvements though not the most drastic.
The true improvements is in the quality of life as the under-display fingerprint scanner is now an ultrasonic scanner and also moved higher, so that it’s actually ergonomic to use. Also, the flat display is just better in every single way.
Performance
Alright, let’s now talk about the new chipset. How does the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 perform? Well, we have already published our full gaming test video – if you haven’t checked that out, then please do so after you finish watching this review. We’ve also upgraded the gaming tests to 4K now – and I kinda regret that decision since it takes forever to render and the file size is humongous.
Either way, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 marks a step forward as it is using an entirely new generation of CPU cores and GPU that are designed by Arm. We also waited until recently before doing the gaming test as there were many updates for the past week. The most recent one was a 10GB update.
We tested Genshin Impact at the highest graphical preset, and it was actually very good. It is basically at 60fps consistently though the frame did drop a bit while in combat in the overworld at the new Nod Krai region. The temperature is also ever so slowly rising. After the half-hour test, it didn’t even hit the thermal limit.
Then comes Zenless Zone Zero, which is a very demanding game. At the highest graphical settings, the flower boss fight was surprisingly near 60fps all the time. Though, the game is actually running at a lower render resolution of 1766×810 pixels. Also, the phone did eventually thermal throttle at 41°C, and the performance dipped to below 20fps.
However… when we looked at the graph at the end, I was surprised to see that the performance eventually returned to its usual level – but the temperature continued rising, then throttled once more at 42°C. I have no idea why it behaved this way and this graph showed its behavior clearly. This is surely something weird going on with the software side of things – and it can be fixed easily via a software update.
Wuthering Waves got a huge upgrade as the nest areas were basically impossible to keep up with the previous generation devices – but this Dimensity 9500 managed to keep the entire fight above 30fps. Though, it did thermal throttle and drop to somewhere below 20fps as well, similar to how it behaved for Zenless Zone Zero.
There was a graphical glitch with War Thunder Mobile when we set ray-tracing to the maximum as well, which I suspect that game does not fully support the Dimensity 9500 yet. Such things happen as this phone isn’t technically released to the market yet.
Battery life
I also want to highlight the battery life as the global version of the OPPO Find X9 Pro comes with a massive 7,500mAh battery, or 28.13Wh in capacity. Wh is simply superior to mAh – watch our video here to know why.
This phone has such a huge battery capacity and still looks like a typical slab phone – impressive. But is the battery life actually impressive or will the software screw it up? Thankfully, no. Which is also quite unfortunate because our battery life test took more than 24 hours and I just had to wait. Yes, it lasts 27 hours and 21 minutes. Seriously, I think we’re on the verge of two-day battery life smartphones with this kind of results. I used this phone as my hotspot phone for my other devices, by the way. At the end of the day after taking a lot of pictures and lots of messaging – I’m still left with like 40% battery.
Oh – I also did a calculation on the efficiency and found out that the previous generation OPPO Find X8 Pro will consume around 1.3W throughout the entire PCMark battery life test, whereby the new OPPO Find X9 Pro consumes closer to just 1W throughout the entire test. It’s a huge improvement that also extended the battery life of this phone.
Charging speed
What about the charging speed then? It comes with an 80W proprietary charger in the box and with the default settings, it can charge from 15% to completion in around nearly 90 minutes. Actually quite good considering that the phone has a battery capacity of 28.13Wh.
When we headed into the settings menu to enable the fastest charging speed possible… I couldn’t actually find that option. This one looks like it, so I enabled it and redid the charging test – and it sort of charged faster but only marginally. The temperature did increase by a lot – so I personally suggest you just turn it off.
Then, when we connected the phone to a USB-PD PPS charger, the phone only takes in around 42W at most, and the charging time from 15% to completion is similar to the proprietary charger. But, using the USB-PD PPS charger, we can actually get to the 50% battery charge the fastest. In comparison, it’s around 5 minutes faster than the proprietary charger.
This is great as I’m not tied to OPPO’s proprietary charger to get any form of fast charging – and this is especially useful while traveling. Also makes you think what the extra wattages actually do with that proprietary 80W charger.
Software
Now, let’s talk about the software. The OPPO Find X9 Pro comes with the latest ColorOS 16 with Android 16.
It has a bunch of different changes compared to the previous generation – like super smooth animations where we can open apps and swipe them away really quickly, but I do think this is one of the dumbest test anyone can do as no one uses their phones this way.
Either way, I think that the default animation speed is way too slow, so I sped it up. We can do this in the home settings menu.
ColorOS 16 also comes with a bunch of home screen and lock screen customizations, which are definitely pretty and has a lot of different options too.
