In terms of performance, the Poco X3 Pro puts a significant leap in performance compared to the X3 NFC and delivers considerable performance, especially for the price range.With the Snapdragon 860 there is basically a Snapdragon 855+ in the Poco X3 Pro, which did not start in the upper class smartphones not too long ago.The CPU is identical together with the clock and the GPU is also the same with the adreno 640.The Poco X3 Pro thus delivers a performance in everyday life, which despite the relatively low price still settles in the high-end segment.Contrary to the X3 NFC, the Poco X3 Pro is also able to fuel the 120Hz display in the system interface with 120Hz - at least in theory.In practice, a bug stands in the way of this, to which we still come in the software chapter.
Even demanding games are absolutely no problem for the Poco X3 Pro.An advantage over various mid -range SOCs is that the adreno 640 in the Poco X3 per skills that are missing, for example, a Snapdragon 732G.In the end, this means that graphics settings can be activated in some games that would be missing in a mid-range processor.For convinced mobile gamers, this is a not inconsiderable point when making a purchase decision.In general, the adreno 640 is an advantage in extremely performance -hungry games, but of course also in some emulators such as dolphine.
However, the Poco X3 Pro shows a disadvantage in cooling.The smartphone does not get uncomfortably warm, but shows clear thermal throttling in the CPU Throttle test.After about 7 minutes in the throttle test, the CPU performance begins to collapse up to 69% of the maximum performance.We cannot find a real reason for this.The back of the Poco X3 Pro gets warm, but far from uncomfortable.AIDA64 shows SOC temperatures around 47 ° brand.Strictly speaking, the phenomenon is not really due to the cooling itself. Rather, it seems that Xiaomi has set the thermal limits too low.In theory, one could eliminate the thermal throttling by raising the temperature limits.It is also important to mention that we never noticed anything from the throttling in everyday use.The perceived performance was never restricted.
