vivo X200 Ultra camera hardware detailed before launch, VS1 "AI ISP" does 80 TOPS

Vivo just posted a video presentation of vivo X200 Ultra’s camera features and it is a jam-packed 5-minute video at that. The phone will officially be unveiled next week (on Monday), but the company has been building up to this for weeks now and we already know most of the details.

The video goes over the three cameras on the phone: 14mm, 35mm and 85mm. The 14mm ultra-wide and 35mm main both use the same sensor, the 1/1.28” Sony LYT-818. On the main it is paired with an f/1.69 lens, on the ultra-wide it’s an f/2.0 lens with OIS (we’ll get back to that).

vivo X200 Ultra cameras: 35mm main • 14mm UW • 85mm tele

The telephoto camera has an 85mm Zeiss APO lens (from “apochromatic” meaning “free from color”, i.e. free from color aberrations). This camera module has a 200MP sensor inside for zooming in beyond 85mm.

Going back to the ultra-wide camera, it has an Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) system capable of up to 2° of correction. Coupled with electronic stabilization, this can achieve the impressive performance demoed on video back in March.

Speaking of videos, the phone will be able to record 4K 120fps footage from all three cameras or 4K 60fps with 10-bit log. It features DCG HDR and up to 14 stops of dynamic range, plus log to REC.709 conversion LUTs.

You’ve probably heard that the vivo X200 Ultra will have two image processing chips. The vivo VS1 is the company’s first pre-processing chip and is described as an “AI ISP”. It is quite a little beastie with 80 TOPS of performance and it is an efficient beastie too, achieving 16 TOPS/W. For context, Microsoft requires 40 TOPS to certify a computer as Copilot+ capable. The Snapdragon X Elite (the laptop chip, not the mobile 8 Elite) has an NPU rated for 45 TOPS. The phone will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, by the way, not the Dimensity 9400 of other X200 models.

Vivo execs have posted camera samples from the X200 Ultra on multiple occasions, like these ultra-wide shots, 10x, 20x and 30x zoom shots and portrait photos.

The company is preparing an elaborate photography kit for the phone, including a 200mm add-on lens that will go on top of the phone’s 3.7x periscope to offer 8.7x optical zoom and up to 70x hybrid (the teaser post described 35x/800mm shots as “highly usable”).

The vivo X200 Ultra will be fully unveiled next week and it won’t be alone as it will be joined by the vivo X200s.

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