Realme GT5 Pro review

Video recording

The Realme GT5 Pro can record video up to 8K24 with its main camera. 4K30 and 4K60 are available on the main camera and the telephoto, while the ultrawide maxes out at 1080p30. The selfie camera can go as high as 4K30.

The main camera captures okay 4K video. We're liking the exposure and contrast in the 30fps clips, dynamic range is good, and the colors are spot on as well. However, sharpness is rather meh. The 60fps footage is sharper, but that comes at the expense of narrower dynamic range and an overall darker exposure.

8K looks pretty sketchy on the GT5 Pro. While you could fool yourself into thinking you're seeing better definition in texts or strait lines, random detail looks about as unpleasant as possible.

The footage from the 3x telephoto is in a similar state of not quite there. Once again, global properties like contrast, dynamic range and colors have been dialed in well, but sharpness remains a letdown.

Moving on to the ultrawide where we expected very little, yet the GT5 Pro managed to fall short. The footage is quite mushy, even for 1080p, and dynamic range is somewhat lacking.

Another pain point in the GT5 Pro's video capture is its stabilization. While it should technically be always on, we found footage captured while walking to be quite shaky, both on the main camera and the ultrawide. The telephoto fared a bit better (when shooting from a stationary position), though it too was from the best.

In low light, the softness theme continues, though admittedly the main camera's footage isn't looking too bad in terms of detail - it's not great or anything, but it's quite usable for the circumstances.

Usable is also how we'd label the telephoto's results, and we'd probably go so far as to say they're above average for a 3x periscope.

The ultrawide's low-light videos aren't much good though.

Here's a glimpse of how the Realme GT5 Pro compares to rivals in our Video compare tool. Head over there for the complete picture.

Realme GT5 Pro against the iQOO 12 and the Xiaomi 13T Pro in our Video compare tool