Samsung turned the highest canine when it got here to smartphones with AI options proper at the beginning of the yr with the Galaxy S24 sequence. Whereas Google shortly adopted go well with and Apple Intelligence is ready within the wings, Xiaomi is now the following massive title to hitch the AI race.
Technical knowledge: Xiaomi 14T Professional and Samsung Galaxy S24+ in direct comparability
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Worth and availability
You should buy the Xiaomi 14 Professional since October 26 in Europe and Asia. You’ve gotten three storage choices (256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB) and three colours (Titan Grey, Titan Blue, and Titan Black) to select from. Beginning at €799 (MSRP, roughly $900).
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| 256 GB | €800 | $1000 |
| 512 GB | €900 | $1120 |
| 1 TB | €1000 | – |
The Galaxy S24+ was launched with an MSRP of $1000 for the 256 GB mannequin.
The Korean flagship has seen its share of offers because the launch, however as of publishing this comparability is again to MSRP.
Design and show
Design
Each Xiaomi and Samsung have merely remained true to their design languages this yr. Because of this Samsung continues to depend on the three free-standing cameras organized one under the opposite—and Xiaomi continues to depend on a sq. digicam island, as we all know it from the Xiaomi 13T sequence or the Xiaomi 14 (check).
Samsung’s Galaxy S23+ makes use of Armour aluminum for the body and depends on Corning Gorilla Glass Victus+ at the back and front. Xiaomi additionally depends on the mixture of steel body with aluminum alloy and glass again, whereby the Xiaomi 14T Professional ensures a particular grip because of its textured floor on the again and on the identical time avoids fingerprints. Each smartphones include IP68 certification, which guarantees you mud and water resistance.
The Samsung telephone is the marginally wider of the 2 gadgets, whereas the Xiaomi 14T Professional is barely longer, thicker and considerably heavier. Nevertheless, in case you maintain each gadgets in your hand, these variations ought to hardly matter. You’ll find the precise dimensions within the comparability desk above.
Show
Samsung is a show king of kinds and delivers with its 6.7-inch “Dynamic AMOLED 2X” panel with a decision of three,088 x 1,440 px and a refresh charge of 120 Hz. However Xiaomi would not have to cover both: Right here, too, there’s AMOLED expertise with a decision of two,712 x 1,220 px. Nevertheless, the show is even smoother at 144 Hz and considerably brighter with a peak brightness of 4,000 nits (Galaxy S24+: 2,600 nits).
Nevertheless, it needs to be famous that the screen-to-body ratio of Xiaomi (93.3 %) is even barely higher than that of the Samsung system (round 90.7 %).
Efficiency and connectivity
Efficiency is commonly a tough problem for Samsung. The Galaxy S24+ is an effective instance of this, because it comes with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in some areas, whereas we will purchase the variant with the sadly weaker Exynos 2400 exterior North America. Xiaomi, then again, depends on MediaTek and offers the Xiaomi 14T Professional an actual powerhouse with the Dimensity 9300+.
The benchmark assessments will not be notably significant on this case, as we carried out completely different assessments in some circumstances. For instance, we do not need an AnTuTu rating for the S24+, which was nicely under two million factors in different assessments, whereas the Xiaomi 14T Professional reaches the 2 million mark. Total, you shouldn’t discover any large variations in efficiency in on a regular basis use or when taking part in video games.
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| AnTuTu | 2.013.101 (Perf. mode: 2,077,622) |
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| 3DMark Wild Life Excessive Stress Check | Finest loop: 2983 (2958) Worst loop: 2633 (2641) Stability: 88.3 % (88.4 %) |
Finest loop: 4242 Worst loop: 2637 |
| 3DMark Metal Nomad Gentle stress check | Finest loop: 1132 (1142) Worst loop: 1086 (1089) Stability: 95.4 % |
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| Geekbench 6 | Single: 2188 (2243) Multi: 7158 (7304) |
Single: 2131 Multi: 6676 |
Nevertheless, we noticed noticeable warmth growth within the Exynos 2400 throughout longer gaming periods, which resulted within the efficiency being throttled. The warmth administration of the Xiaomi 14T Professional, then again, is spectacular. Nevertheless, the GPU prevents us from giving the Xiaomi telephone a fats gaming telephone stamp.
By way of reminiscence, each fashions largely march in step: 12 GB LPDDR5X, UFS 4.0 reminiscence with 256 or 512 GB—solely the Xiaomi 14T Professional additionally affords a 1 TB choice. The Chinese language smartphone can also be one step forward by way of connectivity: compared, we’re provided Wi-Fi 7 as an alternative of 6E and Bluetooth 5.4 as an alternative of 5.3. Each fashions help you use eSIM playing cards and the 5G community, however each gadgets additionally lack the choice to develop the reminiscence.
If we needed to title a winner on this class, I believe it might be the Xiaomi 14T Professional with a really slight lead.
Digicam
For a lot of of you who determine on a brand new (and above all costly) smartphone, the digicam is a key criterion. Samsung delivers an honest efficiency with its flagship fashions, however Xiaomi is actually no digicam light-weight both—as is the case when a legend like Leica comes on board.
On paper, we’ve got comparable line-ups right here: Triple cams consisting of fifty MP predominant cameras and an ultra-wide-angle and telephoto sensor every. Each gadgets have 12 MP for the ultra-wide angle, however the 2.6x telephoto digicam on the Xiaomi mannequin is forward right here with 50 MP vs. 10 MP (3x telephoto on the S24+). In fact, I haven’t got to inform any of you that the sheer variety of megapixels says nothing concerning the high quality of the digicam.
Nevertheless, each digicam methods carried out rather well in our assessments. The Leica partnership signifies that Xiaomi’s predominant digicam and the telephoto digicam ship actually pure colours. The ultra-wide-angle sensor just isn’t actually according to its brighter, stronger colours. Nevertheless, our blind assessments repeatedly present that lots of you truly want this shade scheme.
The photographs that you just take in the course of the day with the S24+ are additionally typically incredible! This additionally applies to the telephoto and ultra-wide-angle pictures. Each gadgets are additionally spectacular at night time, though the S24+ can not preserve the excessive stage of element within the ultra-wide-angle pictures.
The underside line right here is: Neither Xiaomi nor Samsung attain the extent that the 2 obtain on their flagships Xiaomi 14 Extremely (check) and Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely (check). Nonetheless, each telephones ship actually, actually good digicam methods that do (nearly) the whole lot proper by way of each {hardware} and software program. A draw! However why am I speaking a lot? Simply check out our pictures your self – listed below are the galleries:
Check pictures of the Xiaomi 14T Professional
Check pictures of the Samsung Galaxy S24+
Software program: Superior AI vs. Galaxy AI
With the Xiaomi 14T Professional, you get precisely what you’d anticipate: HyperOS primarily based on Android 14, bloatware included. Plus 5 years of assist for safety updates and 4 years of Android updates. What Samsung can supply is equally anticipated: Additionally the nonetheless present Android 14 on high of the One UI 6. Even when Xiaomi has improved considerably on this self-discipline: In the case of updates, you may’t come near Samsung, which grants each safety updates and Android updates for a fats seven years.
We’re coping with two actually well-liked overlays, so the query of whether or not you want One UI or HyperOS extra is merely a query of style.
… or a query of who can dock with the higher AI suite of their software program. Samsung amazed us proper originally of the yr with Galaxy AI. Quite a lot of great things is already coming collectively. I actually like utilizing some options like Circle to Search or the photograph features myself, however some issues are (at the least for now) extra of a gimmick.
This brings me on to Xiaomi, who additionally need to make a giant splash with their “Advanced AI”. We’ll need to see what occurs there straight, as a result of quite a lot of issues are nonetheless within the works or ought to solely work after we revealed our check of the Xiaomi 14T Professional yesterday. Particularly, the aforementioned Circle to Search and Google Gemini will discover their method onto the Xiaomi telephone, however after all that is not all: There would be the regular instruments to summarize texts, translation instruments, you may edit movies and pictures and way more.
As with the Samsung Galaxy S24+, the AI skills may even lengthen to all different areas of the smartphone: images will profit from AI, the show can robotically alter its shade temperature and brightness to the exterior situations and extra.
So far as the software program is anxious, I’d say Samsung is at the moment forward: As a result of the AI features have merely already confirmed what they’ll do and since Samsung’s software program assist is healthier/longer. However there isn’t any query: Xiaomi is making nice progress in each areas and we’re slowly getting the sensation that HyperOS is more and more emancipating itself from MIUI.
Battery: No chargers far and large
In the case of quick charging requirements, corporations like Samsung and Apple ought to actually duck away in embarrassment. At the very least for the Chinese language manufacturers, 45 W “fast charging” is now not sufficient. I am going to present you what Xiaomi means by quick charging: You possibly can totally cost the 5,000 mAh battery with a whopping 120 W in simply 25 minutes in case you activate the “Top speed” choice.
Wi-fi charging? Sure, that is additionally potential—with 50 W. This not solely means that you could cost the system with a cable quicker than you may say “Where the hell is the charger?”, but additionally that you could cost the Xiaomi 14T Professional wirelessly quicker than the Samsung telephone with a cable. Based on our check, Samsung takes round 77 minutes to flash the one hundred pc indicator on the high of the show.
By the way, Xiaomi is adapting to Samsung’s unhealthy habits and now not features a charger within the field. Sadly, there’s extra unhealthy information for the Samsung faction: Though a cable is included, you may solely cost with a most of 25 W with that, even in case you deal with your self to the optionally available 45 W charger.
However hey, the 4,900 mAh battery lasts longer than Xiaomi’s 14T Professional: Whereas the PCMark battery check reveals that it dies after round 13.5 hours, the battery within the S24+ lasts over 15 hours!
Conclusion
Let’s examine which of the gadgets—Xiaomi 14T Professional or Galaxy S24+—earned extra factors in our comparability. By way of construct high quality and design, I believe each gadgets are just about on a par. I additionally see it the identical method by way of efficiency, as a result of the small benefit that Xiaomi’s MediaTek selection affords is hardly noticeable. Maybe Xiaomi is even barely forward by way of show because of its 93.3 % screen-to-body ratio and better refresh charge—though Samsung scores by way of decision.
The state of affairs could be very comparable with the digicam, the place each gadgets ship very comparable outcomes at a excessive stage. In the case of software program, then again, I’d undoubtedly go for the telephone from Korea if long-term assist is especially vital to me. As we’ve got not but been capable of check most of Xiaomi’s AI features, I do not need to charge them right here. Lastly, in the case of the battery, we’ve got a tool that lasts longer and a tool that costs a lot quicker. As with many different factors on this comparability, that is in all probability additionally a query of private desire.
Sadly, this leads to precisely what I needed to keep away from: A verdict that claims one thing like “buy what you want, you can’t go wrong”. The value would truly tip the scales, however right here too, each are on an identical stage, as road costs take the Samsung under the MSRP very often.
However what do you suppose after studying this comparability and, at finest, the check reviews? Which is your favourite?