Xiaomi 12 pro or the real me gt pro which one of these flagships here
should you get if you're thinking about both of these i know a lot of people have asked me
to compare them and i can finally do this video here so they are super similar snapdragon 8gen1
in both of these they both have amoled 120 hertz screens 6.7 inches versus 6.73 so there's really
nothing there in the size and they've both got fast charging 65 watts versus 120 watts
a 5 000 milliamp hour battery versus 4 600 and then the cameras they're similar to so two
main cameras both being 50 megapixels both of the ultrawides are also 50 megapixels and then the
selfie cameras 32 megapixels yet again the same exact specs so there will be a camera comparison
as well as an in-depth look on the build quality benchmarks battery life general performance and
which one i think based on all that info should you get out of these two then with both of these
phones we have tpu cases it's a thicker case you get with the xiaomi offers more protection versus
you could say maybe a better looking but thinner case with the real me so the gt2 pro has 65 watt
charging and it does take 29 minutes in my tests and then the xiaomi that one is 120 watts which
takes 26 minutes however it's a smaller battery 4 600 versus 5000 so there's a big difference there
in the milliamp hours with the battery 400 more with the gt2 pro finish and build quality now this
is going to be personal preference i like both of them i think they are both excellent the xiaomi in
hand feels just a little more premium because of the materials used the frame
around the outside but that doesn't mean that the real me gt2 pro is bad either i really like
the matte finish of this one with that olive green color that's the paper style finish to
it it does however for some people probably make it seem a little less premium because of
that matte finish but no fingerprints or smudges sharp on it okay nothing but that's also the same
for the xiaomi 12 pro so they've both done an excellent job there with the finish now weight
wise you're looking at 205 grams versus about 200 grams they are really similar nothing really in it
on the side here you can see you've got power button just with the real me and power volume on
the xiaomi 12 pro and then when you flip it over and have a look at the other side there's nothing
with the xiaomi then the volume up and down there with the real me now cameras here is where we are
very similar and i will have a comparison coming up soon of this so we've got 50 megapixel on the
xiaomi and then another 50 two times optical 50 ultra wide whereas we have 50 main 50 ultra
wide and then a 3 megapixel microscopic camera with the real me which is a bit different there
along the bottom of these two we have a dual sim trays and both of them only take two nano sim so
no micro sd card support down with firing speaker another one here the antenna lines you can see on
both of the microphones and then our type ce ports if i flip them up here you'll see at the top we've
got a secondary mic on both the loudspeaker port there whereas on the realme gt2 pro
it comes out the earpiece and this is harmon cardone tuned for the loudspeakers you do get an
ir transmitter so infrared there which the real me is lacking so i want to test out these speakers
now and we'll find out which one sounds the best firstly the gt2 pro then the xiaomi 12 pro
so what do you think from that sample from where i'm sitting it was the gt2 pro that came out on
top there with the volume it's a little louder and the xiaomi you could say perhaps sounds a little
bit richer maybe a little bit more bass but i do give the win to the gt2 pro which is a bit of a
surprise for me because this one has the harman kardon naming behind it well they've tuned these
speakers but still this one is bitter and our screens here so both of them 120 hertz both are
ltpo amyloids but it's ltpo2 with the real me gt2 pro it's a flat screen has slimmer bezels as you
can see and this xiaomi has the curvature to it so you get a slight color shift that you do notice
on the very edge there it's not that obvious but it's there now some will say that in hand and when
you swipe for the gestures the curved screen is better but i'm someone that prefers actually flat
and i like the look of these slimmer bezels we get with the gt2 pro so both panels are qhd plus
resolution both of them you can change that if you want to you can set it onto full hd plus but for
my review my testing i've kept it on qhd plus now you can adjust the colors of them so brightness
right now i've got them both calibrated to 200 nits with my meter so they should look the same
any changes we're seeing in the white balance is just down to software in the the screen tick there
so the cutouts we've got 32 megapixels in both which do you prefer hole punch in the middle or
to the left let me know in the comments i actually prefer it here in the middle and i wish that real
me had done that but still i have to give the win for the screen to this real me why because it's
flat and the second one most importantly even though it doesn't state anywhere that it has dc
dimming i don't see any flicker or banding i see some banding and sometimes a very small amount of
flicker coming through on the 12 pro screen the gt2 pro no banning no flicker there whatsoever
gestures on both are fine and you can see the ui that was a perfect example of what i'm seeing with
miui 13. the animations can sometimes be slow and you get that horrible little loading thing come up
never happens with the gt2 pro it's ui gets the win for me 120 hertz 120 frames per second super
fast animations it's more stable i'm having random reboots with the xiaomi 12 pro at the moment
although they claim a firmware is going to fix that just have to wait and see but it's just those
ui animations and just way faster everything feels a lot faster when you use the ui with the gt2 pro
so real me ui 3.0 based on android 12 this is also android 12 less bugs faster yes ui definitely real
me ui is the best here both of these models when you first turn them on do come with a
little bit of bloatware but not that much really we've got about five six apps versus five or six
apps uh no advertising on either them that i'm seeing which is good that's what we want we don't
want advertising especially on flagship phones let alone affordable or mid-ranges shouldn't have it
either so this is really weird here because the xiaomi's got 120 watt charging and it's got a
smaller battery and then the real me has a 5 000 milliamp hour so it's 400 milliamp hours more and
still charges in 29 minutes at 65 watts and that's not really much of a difference at all considering
we've got almost double the wattage on the xiaomi but both of them are very fast here really good
and even though i did charge start to charge the real me at six percent battery it would still be
around 29 minutes sometimes it's 30 minutes sometimes the xiaomi is 27 sometimes it's 25
minutes they are very close and i would not base my decision on that no definitely not internal
storage very quick on both but the xiaomi did take the lead here with fast uh sequentials faster
random rights there as you can see not that much of a difference and i would not really concern
myself with that but it's just nice to know that they're both very quick now i wanted to point out
both my models here they have 12 gigabytes of ram each they both run android 12 they both have the
snapdragon 8 gen 1 and it's 256 gigabytes of storage on both and very similar scores here
but the xiaomi pulled a hit now what is interesting to note throttling performance
with wildlife extreme this is a very demanding test it runs for 20 minutes it showed that the
xiaomi basically did not throttle it throttled 0.4 percent that's it that is absolutely nothing
now the chinese model of the xiaomi 12 pro which i originally reviewed
wouldn't complete the test all right it just does not complete it it always
crashes overheats that's what happened to me okay that was back in january and it still does it now
it can't really game for more than 30 minutes without overheating but the global version it's
fine okay it gets warm and really not an issue but the performance you can see was quite a bit higher
on the best loop versus the xiaomi so really depends on what you want they are hot chips and
they do throttle but the xiaomi well it doesn't seem to as you can see here very very steady that
frame rate now the temperature difference 44 degrees versus 42 and the frame rates they're
not really that much in it and they both pass the safety net check here so that means you can use
banking apps nfc on both two which is going to work widevine level one cert on both so you do
get netflix in full hd that's good camera two api support both level three that's the maximum level
support so look out for your g cams and open camera if you want to run that you can run it
gps on both uh similar but i did notice that the xiaomi seemed to be a little bit better
with the average signal strength here you can see that's the important one to look at and
they both get the lock on about the same time there so just slightly better on the xiaomi
battery life big difference here and i both ran them with quad hd resolution and both at 120 hertz
and yeah yeah i don't know what happened to the xiaomi here so that's a fixed test at 200 minutes
of brightness and it runs until both of them get to 20 battery and gives us the result so
when a lot longer the gt2 pro and i'm seeing this in real world use as well so this one's
going to be around six and a half seven hours on screen time best case scenario just social
media very light stuff not gaming and this one here will go for around nine hours so it's quite
a bit better eight and a half nine so better life definitely gets the win there the gt2 pro
over to gaming performance now so they both got the same chipset same ram and to me performance
is very very similar in pubg can run the maximum frame rate is the extreme option on both and the
performance is the same so i wanted to focus more on this title which is gen shen impact i'm gonna
run it on both of them and play now for one hour and see which one is going to get the hottest will
they thermal throttle all right so it has been about 34 minutes and they don't seem to be getting
any hotter they're both warm to the touch well hot to the touch and you can see we're
getting about 40 degrees on the real me which is on the right of the screen on the back here
and a similar kind of temperature there in the shelby but not quite as hot now the front of
them all right a little different here you can see about 42 degrees is the hottest temperature
on the real me and about 42 also on the xiaomi 12 pro so they both get hot to the touch but not too
bad considering that was approximately 34 minutes of a super demanding game and moving over to our
cameras now which should be really interesting considering they are so similar so facing cameras
32 megapixels on both of them and we only get 1080p video here so even though they're
flagships unfortunately no 4k 30 even we just got the 1080p 30 or 60 frames per second now both of
them do have electronic image stabilization and both of them have a disappointing audio quality
i think with the bit right there that it's a little bit too low on both of them so we've
got 128 kilobits per second or 96 kilobits per second really should be about 320 or at least 190.
so i'm going to do a short little jog here just to test out that electronic image stabilization
which one do you think works the best and i'll swap over to the rear cameras now this is 4k 30
frames per second now to match my review here while my comparison of both of these so you
can also shoot in 4k 60. images look good on both but let me know which one do you think looks the
best the color science the sharpness the detail captured and the stabilization so a light jog now
hard for me to see at the moment in recording this which one looks the steediest but i think it could
be the xiaomi now i've noticed the focus on both of these 50 megapixel sensors is good no problems
in that area and as they're panning around there's sometimes a little bit of jutter showing
now you can on the fly then go over to the ultra wide on both of these so that's the
ultra wide 50 megapixels on both and you can see the ultrawide now on the gt2 pro so it does
get a lot more in this shot but which one looks the best as i pan around hopefully no terrible
jutter coming through i have noticed a bit on the xiaomi and sometimes with the real me too
okay so what would be my pick then which is the winner and you probably guessed it it is
yes the real me gt2 pro it has the better battery life better standby time 2 battery drain that is
better ui room ui 3.1 is so much better to use it's more enjoyable than buggy me ui 13 with poor
animations some slow sluggy animations at times reboots on me just randomly and also bad standby
drain it's losing a lot of battery overnight if you just leave it doing nothing it's losing
about 25 percent or even more which is completely unacceptable they've really got a lot of work to
do now both of them with the cameras trading blows there both have at times poor video performance
especially the audio i really do need to increase the bit rates on both of them but the real me the
list just goes on with things that i like about it big shock to see and hear that the harman kardon
speakers lost to the gt2 pro i did not expect that i just assumed that harman kardon tuned these
i thought they would sound better but they kind of don't actually and they're louder in this
model here so there's lots of things to like about it and the charge speed
sure the xiaomi wins on the charge speed it's about three four five minutes faster at times
and it does have a slightly better feel to it and build quality but really that's
about it so don't waste your money get yourself the phone that is cheaper and overall better
thanks a lot for watching this comparison of the realme gt2 pro this is the xiaomi 12 pro