POCO has just brought these two phones out so it is the x4 pro 5g and the m4 pro
now in this in-depth comparison review i'm going to go over them in detail we'll take a look at
the differences between the helio g96 and the snapdragon 695 we have 120 hertz screen versus
90 hertz screen both of them have 5 000 milliamp hour batteries and the differences between them
aren't quite as clear-cut as it would seem when you look at the spec sheet no the cheaper phone is
actually better than the more expensive phone at a few things as you'll find out in this comparison
included in the box with both of them you get our usb cables which is usb type a to type c
two charges but different wattage here so with the more expensive phone the x4 pro 5g it is 67 watts
fully charges the 5 000 milliamp hour battery in just 44 minutes not bad at all and then 33 watts
here with the poco m4 pro also a 5 000 milliamp hour battery and it takes 17 minutes to charge it
so along with the power adapter and the cable both of them you get one of these in each of them which
is a tpu case so cut out for the camera there's a raged edge to stop it from getting scratched and
the cutout there for the power button fingerprint reader and there's even a cover for the type c
port to stop dust getting in now both of these phones here have an ip53 splash resistance
the x4 pro 5g is slightly larger so it's a 6.67 inch screen here this one so it gives us a larger
phone as you can see side by side but not by much because it's 6.43 inches the m4 pro now the
chipset's big difference we've got a snapdragon 695 with 5g support versus the helio from mediatek
g96 now both of my review units here they both have 6 gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of
storage camera modules similar there as you can see the poco m4 pro that i'm holding right now
has a 64 megapixel main camera ultrawides 8 megapixels and then a macro 2 megapixel
the exact same two cameras those bottom ones there on the x4 pro so the backing material here
is quite nice the finish to it but shiny it doesn't look quite as good as the x4 pro which
i'll show you now but it does have curved edges now the weight of this phone is 180 grams versus
the slightly heavier 205 now with the poco x4 pro so that's 108 megapixel sensor there and then
those eight megapixel ultra wide two megapixel the ai branding i wish they just didn't even put that
there and then we've got our flash i guess they're trying to like it make it look a little bit more
symmetrical there so you have this what almost looks like spotlight effect there's shining
lines really along here which look a little bit nicer too at certain angles in the light the
x4 pro i do like now it's a flat back and it's a square frame on it okay around the outside so both
of them have plastic frames now the weight of this as mentioned is 205 but what about the thickness
it is 8.1 versus about 8.9 8.09 so they're almost identical but the cameras do stick
out an additional two three millimeters so on the side here we've got capacitive always
on fingerprint readers so i'll try the m4 pro first you can see that's quick i'll do it again
not too bad and we'll try now the x4 pro fingerprint reader
that one seemed actually even slower there we go it's if you haven't used it for a while sometimes
can be a little slow there so both of them aren't really that quick then we've got the volume up and
down buttons on both of them here are made out of plastic so plastic frame then on our side here on
the left you can see a sim tray tool with the m4 pro now it does take two nano sims and a micro
sd card so you can run all three at the same time whereas with the x4 pro you have to give
up on one of those nano sims if you want to run a micro sd card so you can insert a nano sim here
nano sim there as you can see on that side but you cannot run all three like you can with the m4 pro
the sim tray is located on the bottom of the x4 pro so we've got our type c ports microphones
loudspeakers here and then when you look at the top of both of the devices there is a lot of good
news here we've got secondary loudspeakers later on i'll give you the sample of both of them and
we'll compare them ir transmitters secondary microphone so noise cancelling with voice
calls on both of them i've placed voice calls on both both sound about the same to my ears
3.5 millimeter headphone jacks with hardware fm radio support you just need to plug in a headset
now both of them do have very good output from them they sound loud it could be a little bit
louder actually but they're clean they're clear which is great and i think that to my ears the
x4 pro does sound slightly better then our front facing cameras so they are both 16 megapixels but
for some reason we do have a smaller cut out on the x4 pro versus the m4 pro they do have these
silver rings around the outside of them which they wish that poco would not do so when you
turn the screen off those front facing cameras they stand out way more than they really should
onto our displays and the ui so we do have 90 hertz versus 120 hertz
this one feels a lot faster so 360 hertz touch sampling rate versus 180 also lagging behind
gorilla glass 3 versus gorilla glass 5. now in the settings here on both of them for the displays
you can see we do have options for the refresh rate so you've got 90 and 60 and here you've got
120 and 60. i really think they should put 90 hertz on this model too i hope they can change
that with the firmware now screen brightness both of them 700 nits you do have gorilla glass 3 on
that as i mentioned before angular glass five so it could give a bit of a difference maybe or if
you drop them that this might hold up a little bit better to such impacts maybe not it all
depends on course how it falls so they're good screens they're bright screens they're full hd
plus and i don't think anyone's going to have any issues with them it's great to see amoled screens
finally dominating here and no more ips really with these kind of models so the touch gestures
just bring those up again here they're working fine on both of them i do notice maybe a slight
edge in response with this particular model here and we'll get into just a few things too that i
want to show you with the ui it's miui 13 okay for poco and they're both running android 11 but when
you get them both you're going to see this you are going to see a bit of bloatware quite a bit of
bloatware in fact because look at it all there's a huge amount of apps that you will need to
uninstall so i counted almost three gigabytes of garbage on both of them that i had to remove now i
know some people might like some of these apps but i didn't count netflix as bloatware i did count
these games linkedin and all sorts of other things okay so a bit of bloatware on there
so that's what they are on now the latest patches have come through there's just a
recent patch now for this one again so it's had two firmware updates this has had nothing
so far at the time of me recording this video so when you install applications advertisements
will pop up and they're still doing this i just think this is a big no okay you pay for the phone
why do they have to keep making money off us through advertising it shouldn't they shouldn't
be doing that at all so both of them have similar storage speeds there's really not much in it but
when you look at the random reads and writes the cheaper model here with the mediatek is in
fact faster reading random writes and reads okay you see that difference it's quite a bit there
so not really that much in it when you look at the sequentials okay very similar but that does
have the faster storage there now the antutu scores show us that wow they're quite a bit of
separation there well not really 80 000 points is not that much so gpu looking a bit of a difference
around there cpu score not too much but really when you use them aside from the benchmarks they
feel both very similar and both of them do lag in the ui at times animation stutter definitely
present on both the difference with wildlife here not that much you can see barely anything
and then our geekbench 5 score so that's where there is quite a bit of a difference with the
single core score multi here between the g97 versus snapdragon 695 and here with gps because
there's no limitation on the accuracy with the mediatek chipset it can get a better accuracy
but i did notice that normally the qualcomm chipset has a slightly better average signal
strength for gps both have hardware compasses and for some reason both for them were pointing
in a slightly different direction even though i was aiming them really in the same place so
that was interesting so this is where again the cheaper model is better
very strange wide one level one cert here so netflix in full hd netflix in standard
definition because it's only got a level three cert why but this will be fixed i am certain in a
firmware update poco will be fixing that wireless performance again we have another point here
to the cheaper phone the m4 pro has much better wireless performance thanks to that mediatek
chipset the qualcomm one lagging behind and the last point downstairs the speeds were good but
nowhere near as fast as this so a big difference there and you notice it too when you install and
download applications the whole process was faster on the m4 pro okay both of them get the
safety net status pass good as you'd expect both of them have nfc so yes banking apps
they're going to be working on this for all of that i did run the stress test here of wildlife
and you can see that they barely throttle these chips don't get hot enough to generate enough
heat to throttle themselves really so you're only losing in performance 0.9 versus point six percent
okay nothing absolutely nothing battery life so so close wow similar chipsets and performance same
battery capacity 5 000 milliamp hours and look at that barely any difference at all so this is
a fixed benchmark 20 nits each and that's it real world use about 10 hours on both of these and that
is on the faster refresh rate nine to 10 hours so very good battery life these phones are champions
when it comes to the battery because well they're low powered chipsets with amoled screens it helps
audio quality now so both of them i do like the sounds of the 3.5 millimeter out they both got
dual loudspeakers so what i will do is play a clip and i'll let you know which one i think sounds
the best but i wanted to point out here with the scrolling you don't see that much of a difference
to be honest between 90 hertz and 120 it's almost like is it just running on both of these at 60.
it is smooth but sometimes i feel it feels a bit smoother here on the mediatek chipset versus
that snapdragon 695 which shouldn't actually be the case right because that one in the benchmarks
is a little bit faster but it could be down to the rom optimization so what i do now is play
a track on both of them at 100 volume and we'll compare which one sounds the best
so the poco x4 pro won that one it's richer the speakers and just a little bit more bass this one
tends to sound a little flat there when it comes to the bass and maybe not quite as loud either
the m4 pro so a clear win there for the x4 pro for loudspeakers now onto our gaming performance here
with pubg so on both of them the setting that we can use here for frame rate is ultra that's
the best we get on smooth if you can run it on balanced as well if you want but i think with
this hardware i want to run all of it on smooth so ultra ultra that's kept at 45 frames per second
with this game so test out gameplay now we'll take a look is there a big difference between them with
the frame rate okay so if you do swipe from the top left hand corner you can see game turbo states
the frame rate so 41 frames per second this is the m4 pro versus 40 here 42 sorry on the
x4 pro now i have noticed with the gameplay that basically they are exactly the same the frame
rate we're getting they both seem to always be around 40 frames per second so get him just to
run ahead obviously it's a little bit hard to play this game simultaneously on two different phones
so just swipe here again you can see 41 frames per second and then 41 frames per second and i just
noticed this throughout the time that i've been playing games playing pub g here that the frame
rate is exactly the same on both the performance really seems the same so if your decision is
based on getting the best gaming performance you can't really go wrong with both of these at least
in a game like pub g here with the frame rates kept at 45 but it can't actually quite get to the
45 this hardware even on the balanced option so i just stopped running here on both of them okay
and we'll look down the scopes and a quick little move around so that is now 41 frames per second
and let's have a look here that is 41 frames per second now both of them because they're
low end hardware they don't actually get that hot at all they get a little warm but
no thermal throttling is going to happen they don't throttle down the performance so that's
good it seems the cooling on them is fine here so equal performance on both of these poco phones
now over to our cameras here so front facing cameras vlog footage 1080p maximum right here
and the frame rate on both of them is looking pretty steady around 30 frames per second it does
have electronic image stabilization as you can see as i walk ahead it's looking quite steady now if
i start to jog it moves around a little bit more as expected now you notice that my face here is a
little bit overexposed on both of them let's have a look at the rear cameras now for video
performance now the rear camera so 108 megapixel on one and then 64 megapixels both of them
do have electronic image stabilization as i walk ahead but which one looks the steadiest is it
the x4 pro 5g or the m4 pro let me know in the comments which one you think looks the best here
and it's 1080p maximum so none of them does support 4k unfortunately now as
i pan around will there be a few more jutters on one of these versus the other
and now we'll take a look at the ultra wide cameras finally the ultra wide cameras so
they only both of them support 1080p 30 frames per second just like the main camera the quality with
these two ultrawides looks nowhere near as good as what we have from the main camera and looks a
little bit washed out to be honest on both of them with that eight megapixel sensor that we have so
do another pan test very very slowly i can see a bit of jutter definitely coming through on one of
them so let me know in the comments which one you think looks the best with our video performance
some very interesting findings there that the cheaper phone had better wireless performance
better storage speeds and they both game pretty much exactly the same so in benchmarks like antutu
shore the snapdragon 695 is better but in the real world when you're gaming you just don't really see
a difference i might have seen maybe on average one frame per second more so if your decision is
a phone that you're going to be gaming on and you're basing it on the performance
for pubg for example like i tested i wouldn't worry about it go for either one whatever
is going to fit your budget there of course now the 108 megapixel camera didn't actually
take always the best photo it was a bit of a surprise the 64 megapixel one did show us that
more always isn't better perhaps the isp the image signal processing processor
for the snapdragon was struggling a little bit with those extra mega pixels it could have been
and that's why it resulted in well the video being a little bit more choppy at times some of those
photos not been quite as good so they did kind of trade blows there when it came to the camera
performance that i showed you and sadly both of them just support 1080p 30 frames per second
and very odd to see that the x4 pro 5g doesn't have a wide vine level 1 cert so netflix is in
standard definition whereas with the m4 pro it's in full hd so both have very good screens if you
want the best screen then you do go for the x4 pro 5g the ui performance on both of them at times
can be laggy the animations can be a little bit choppy so clearly to me optimization is needed
on both both of them have very good battery life so if you just take it easy with them that you're
not gaming the whole time it is just social media for example then you should be able to get around
nine hours of screen on time with both of these perhaps nine and a half a little tiny bit more
half an hour more on the x4 pro 5g so there we go now you know thanks to this comparison here the
differences between them and this is basically my review two of both of these phones here thanks a
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