Redmi K60 Pro Review: Powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 without overheating, impressive 50 MP camera

At the end of December 2022, Xiaomi concluded its year with the mid-range masterpiece Redmi K60 Pro. Currently highly praised, this phone stands out not only for its design but also for its powerful hardware. How does the Redmi K60 Pro perform in terms of power? Is the Redmi K60 Pro camera impressive? Let's dive into the Redmi K60 Pro review below to find out!

Note: The article's content is translated from IGeekphone.

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Hands-on with the Stylish Redmi K60 Pro!

Firstly, the Redmi K60 Pro has overall dimensions of 162.78 × 75.44 × 8.59 mm, weighing around 205 grams, providing a comfortable and solid feel in the hand. The front of the device features a premium 2K display developed and tuned by Redmi and China Star Optoelectronics, ensuring excellent display quality.

The Redmi K60 Pro's screen is designed with a flat OLED panel measuring 6.67 inches and a resolution of 3,200 × 1,400 pixels. It supports 12-bit depth, displaying 68.7 billion colors, and has a contrast ratio of 5 million: 1. These top-notch specifications ensure a satisfying visual experience with sharp images and beautiful colors.

Additionally, the Redmi K60 Pro supports low PWM blue light and a 1920Hz hardware level, ensuring you don't have to worry about screen flickering that could harm your eyes when gaming in low light. As the device features an OLED screen, it produces true black without emitting light. The screen bezels are impressively thin, approximately 2.42 mm, providing a consistent and comfortable visual experience for daily use, despite a slightly thicker chin. Notably, the Black color variant with seamless Kevlar texture on both sides and the edges of the rear camera gives it a beautiful metallic feel. The overall design resembles a sports car, evoking a sense of strength and robustness.

Next is the color scheme of the Redmi K60 Pro, especially the Black variant with the seamless Kevlar texture used on both sides and the edges of the rear camera, creating a visually appealing metal-like pattern. As the author shared, the shape resembles that of a sports car, giving users a powerful and sturdy impression.

The rear camera lenses of the Redmi K60 Pro are housed within a long rectangular frame along the body, featuring three specific lenses: the 50 MP main camera IMX800, 8 MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and 2 MP macro lens. The top and bottom details of the device are equipped with familiar physical buttons and ports for user convenience.

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Redmi K60 Pro boasts powerful performance with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Before diving into details, let's summarize the specifications of the Redmi K60 Pro for easy reference:

• Display: 6.67 inches, 2K resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate.
• CPU: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
• RAM: 8 GB, 12 GB, or 16 GB.
• Internal Storage: 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB.
• Rear Camera: 50 MP + 8 MP + 2 MP.
• Front Camera: 16 MP.
• Battery: 5,000 mAh, supports 120 W fast charging.

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As seen above, the Redmi K60 Pro is equipped with the three best technologies available today: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, second-generation LPDDR5X RAM, and UFS 4.0, ensuring immense power and lightning-fast data access speed. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 utilizes TSMC's 4nm process and a completely new architecture. The new generation Adreno GPU architecture brings a 25% performance improvement and a 45% energy efficiency boost. Additionally, it features an 8th-gen AI engine, enhancing AI performance by 4.35 times and energy efficiency by 60%. The robust platform performance makes the overall performance of the Redmi K60 Pro outstanding.

To verify the performance of the Redmi K60 Pro, the IGeekphone website conducted several performance reviews, including AnTuTu, GeekBench 5, GFXBench, and AndroBench. The results are as follows:

• AnTuTu

As seen above, the Redmi K60 Pro scored 1,300,900 points on AnTuTu, surpassing nearly 99% of other phones. Among these, the CPU score is 272,262 points, the GPU score is 579,439 points, the memory score is 259,882 points, and the UX score is 189,417 points. Compared to the previous generation Redmi K50 Pro, the score is nearly equivalent, with an upgrade rate of 27.6%.

• GeekBench 5

In Geekbench 5, the single-core score of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the Redmi K60 Pro is 1,462, and the multi-core score is 5,038. There is an improvement in performance of 11.4% and 13.6%, respectively.

• GFXBench

For graphics, the GPU of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the Redmi K60 Pro achieved 153 FPS, 180 frames per second, 128 frames per second, 222 FPS, 326 FPS, 488 frames per second. The upgrade ratio from the previous Redmi K50 Pro generation is also evident, reaching an overall upgrade ratio of 46.1% to 65.1%.

• AndroBench

In this test, the author observed the UFS 4.0 specifications for the flash memory of the Redmi K60 Pro. In real-world measurements, the sequential read speed can reach up to 3,472 MB/s, and the sequential write speed can reach up to 3,016 MB/s. Compared to the previous generation, the speed is nearly doubled. Installing and loading game maps and applications can provide a faster user experience.

Through these tests, the current power of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the Redmi K60 Pro is excellent, with highly competitive and superior scores in its segment. Additionally, there haven't been any noticeable overheating issues, indicating solid optimization by Redmi. Now, how about gaming performance? Let's find out in the next section!

Redmi K60 Pro excels in gaming performance without overheating

The Redmi K60 Pro introduces FeAs 2.2, Xiaomi's self-developed intelligent frame stability technology. It intelligently predicts current performance requirements, adjusts performance automatically, and balances frame rate speed and energy consumption. Alongside this is the new FBO storage technology, helping the phone avoid performance degradation in read and write operations over extended use, providing a more seamless gaming experience.

• GKART

Entering the first game, GKART (a racing game similar to Zing Speed Mobile in the Vietnamese market), the author set the image quality to the highest, ultra-high resolution, and maximum frame rate to unleash the full potential of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the Redmi K60 Pro.

During gaming sessions, the average frame rate of 'GKART' is 120.6 frames per second. This level of performance poses no challenge for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a normal feat for the Redmi K60 Pro.

• Honor of Kings

The next game is Honor of Kings, known to Vietnamese players as Vương Giả Vinh Diệu or the original game behind the popular Liên Quân Mobile in our country. In this game, the author also set the graphics to the highest level for the device to fully unleash its potential.

After 10 minutes of gaming, the average frame rate fluctuates around 120.5 FPS and remains extremely stable, with no significant fluctuations. It appears that these games may still be too straightforward for the Redmi K60 Pro.

• Original God

Next up is the game known as the 'hung god' across all smartphones, Original God (Genshin Impact). In this game, the author has pushed the graphics to the highest level, achieving a frame rate of 60 FPS.

For this game, the author randomly traversed the new map of the City of Sumeru for half an hour. The game's resolution was captured at 1,920 × 864 pixels. During this phase, the Redmi K60 Pro surprisingly remained relatively cool, with an average frame rate of about 59.6 FPS. This indicates that the device is optimized for users to enjoy gaming comfortably.

Within that, the energy consumption when playing this game on the Redmi K60 Pro is also very impressive, at only 4.9 W, much lower than the 6 W ~ 8 W range of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. After 15 minutes of gaming, the author also measured the product's temperature, which reached only 41.5 degrees Celsius. It can be seen that the device only warms up and does not overheat or get hot like the previous generation.

It can also be seen that Xiaomi has optimized well by using a very large VC of 5000 mm² as the core for the Redmi K60 Pro and collaborating with a total of 17 layers of high thermal conductivity and copper sheets in 6 places to create a high-power three-dimensional cooling system covering all heat-generating areas. The performance is indeed stable enough. Therefore, you can play games for an extremely long time without feeling uncomfortable at all.

Redmi K60 Pro's camera delivers sharp details and balanced colors

Not only boasting impressive specs, but the Redmi K60 Pro also features an equally impressive camera system with specific details as follows:

• Main Camera: 50 MP resolution, f/1.9 aperture, PDAF, OIS.
• Ultra-wide Camera: 8 MP resolution.
• Macro Camera: 2 MP resolution, f/2.4 aperture.

As seen above, the Redmi K60 Pro is equipped with three cameras, notably the IMX800, with the same 1/1.49-inch sensor as the Xiaomi 13, with a single pixel size of 1 μM, which can be combined to obtain an equivalent 2.0 Fusion Pixel. Therefore, even when used in low-light environments, the image quality is quite bright.

• Main Camera

With the support of the IMX800 lens on the Redmi K60 Pro, you don't have to worry too much about the amount of light entering when taking photos. Most of the photos are taken at night, and the details of light and shadow are ensured to the maximum extent. This is not to overly brighten the image, but to accurately reproduce landscape details.

Even in 2x Zoom mode, the Redmi K60 Pro delivers excellent image quality, good resolution, and color performance, especially controlling blur and glare in each scene. With dual OIS and EIS for better stabilization and the intervention of Xiaomi Imaging Brain 2.0, you can still capture the best shots even in low-light conditions.

However, in some scenes, the quality is not satisfactory, giving the feeling that this photo is overly exposed. The author hopes that these issues can be improved as the Redmi K60 Pro becomes more widely available.

• Ultra-Wide Camera

Although the ultra-wide camera on the Redmi K60 Pro is only 8 MP, in daily use, the author notes no issues. In cases of heavy dust, this ultra-wide lens can accurately capture the current scene and maintain the most consistent white balance possible with the main camera. No problems at all.

• Snapshot Function

Redmi also brings a quick photo capture feature for the K60 Pro, optimizing image logic, saving images quickly through self-developed algorithms, and basic optimization. This cannot be separated from the support of powerful performance and image computing power. With the support of the IMX800 sensor, optical image stabilization OIS, and Xiaomi Imaging Brain, the photo capture speed is well-executed.

In the author's experience, the camera on the Redmi K60 Pro immediately completes framing and focuses as soon as the camera is turned on. Users just need to quickly press the shutter button, and the response is very fast. During continuous shooting, there is no need to repeat the focus, making it very convenient. In rapid shooting mode, the Redmi K60 Pro can capture clear images efficiently.

Redmi K60 Pro Battery Delivers Long Usage and Fast Charging Speed

The Redmi K60 Pro is equipped with a commonly used 5,000 mAh battery, promising extended usage for users. To test the Redmi K60 Pro battery, the author conducted a test using battery testing software produced by Kuai Technology. For the test items, the author chose to test extremely high battery life and checked all test items, including high CPU voltage, multi-threaded CPU, AI recognition, photo browsing, video playback, and web browsing to simulate user usage scenarios and stress the device to the maximum.

The author set the brightness at 50% manually, the resolution is the clear FHD+ display, and the dynamic refresh rate option is set to 120 Hz. With the Redmi K60 Pro equipped with a 5,000 mAh battery, the software yielded a battery life result of 8 hours and 56 minutes when measured from 100% energy to 1% remaining.

Compared to previous models like the Redmi K50 Pro with a 4,700 mAh battery, the Redmi K60 Pro has a longer usage time. For frequent travelers, it can last until you return home, mitigating sudden battery depletion. Additionally, the Redmi K60 Pro is equipped with 120 W fast charging technology and the Surge P1 chip. Redmi has cleverly overcome challenges in large-scale charging exceeding 100 W on a single battery in the past, allowing the Redmi K60 Pro to support fast charging even with large batteries in a short period. The results are as follows:

According to the author's findings, starting from 5%, it only takes 10 minutes to charge up to 66%, 15 minutes to reach 84%, and just 22 minutes to fully charge. This is an incredibly fast charging speed, allowing users to fill up the battery in the shortest time possible.

How much is the Redmi K60 Pro? Is it worth buying?

The Redmi K60 Pro is an exceptional device today, boasting powerful performance and an impressive design. Especially, the device doesn't experience overheating issues even during prolonged use, showcasing the excellent performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which the Redmi K60 Pro has been optimized for. Currently, the Redmi K60 Pro is available in the Chinese market with the following prices:

• 8 GB RAM, 128 GB internal storage version is priced at 3,299 Chinese Yuan (approximately 11.2 million VND).
• 8 GB RAM, 256 GB internal storage version is priced at 3,599 Chinese Yuan (approximately 12.2 million VND).
• 12 GB RAM, 256 GB internal storage version is priced at 3,899 Chinese Yuan (approximately 13.2 million VND).
• 12 GB RAM, 512 GB internal storage version is priced at 4,299 Chinese Yuan (approximately 14.6 million VND).
• 16 GB RAM, 512 GB internal storage version is priced at 4,599 Chinese Yuan (approximately 15.6 million VND).
• Champion Edition 16 GB RAM, 512 GB internal storage version is priced at 4,599 Chinese Yuan (approximately 15.6 million VND).

These are very enticing prices that users can easily access. Above are the reviews of the Redmi K60 Pro, what are your thoughts on this device? Leave your comments below the article! Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

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