Oppo Find X10 Pro Max review

Android 17 with a matching ColorOS 17

The Oppo Find X10 series debuts the Android 17-based ColorOS 17. The Find X10 and X10 Pro Max are entitled to 5 major OS updates and 6 years of security patches from the day of launch.

Unlike most proprietary software releases lately, ColorOS 17 has undergone noticeable visual changes. It has adopted a new Living Flow Design with improved responsiveness, smoother and more natural animations, and translucent visuals that are akin to the iOS Liquid Glass aesthetics. Of course, there's no shortage of new AI-centric features.

The most notable major change in ColorOS 17 is the Living Flow design with Luminous Effects, Fluid Motion and Flexible Feedback. All these names are a fancy way to describe that the new UI was heavily influenced by Apple's Liquid Glass.

Home screen • Quick settings • Recent apps

The lock screen is highly configurable with various clock themes and widgets. Depth effect is also supported. And we can confirm that the transitions between Always-On, Lock and Homescreen are incredibly fluid. The similarity to iOS is quite heavy at times.

Settings menu and AI features

The app drawer now has two styles - All and Category. The latter is very similar to what iOS has to offer.

App drawer: All view • Category view

And as for AI features, you will find most of them under the Oppo AI sub-menu, but the AI Agent is the new addition. It combines Gemini, Perplexity and ChatGPT models and connects to the AI Mind Space (a smart clipboard where you save various stuff throughout your day - notes, screenshots, media, text, etc.). Thanks to all of these smarts, this feature can give you plenty of personalized suggestions, answers to questions, and provide you with summarized and structured information.

AI Mind Pilot

The AI Agent can organize photos and files, do batch operations such as renaming and sorting, and more. It can gather information from files and apps to create itineraries, trip tips and invitations.

The AI is also tasked with identifying AI scam calls. It can tell whether the voice or the person's face, when in a video call, is AI-generated. This will help you stay ahead of scammers.

The Photos app supports Mind Pilot. It's a ChatGPT-powered service for creating, editing, and organizing photos based on user prompts. It can also search through your thousands of photos and find the one you are looking for.

The dedicated hardware Snap Key on the left side isn't a novelty, but it's worth mentioning. It has been around for a few generations now. By default, it takes a screenshot and saves it to Mind Space, but it can also be reprogrammed, so you can, for example, turn on your flashlight.

Benchmark performance

The Find X10 Pro Max sports a brand-new MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro chipset, and despite its name, there's no non-Pro version, at least for now. This is the company's first 2nm silicon, and it's also the first to utilize ARM's next-generation CPU and GPU designs. It's also supposed to be much more efficient and powerful when it comes to AI-related tasks.

The CPU cluster consists of two 2x C2-Ultra cores ticking at 4.55 GHz, 3x C2-Pro cores running at 4.35 GHz and 3x C2-Pro cores clocked at 3.1 GHz.

The Mali-G2 Ultra NX GPU is marketed to support 185+ fps gaming and should offer a 27% boost in ray-tracing performance.

The chipset is also capable of supporting the latest LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, but the Find X10 Pro Max caps at LPDDR5X and UFS 4.1.

Speaking of which, the device arrives in just one storage option globally - 512GB- but can be had with either 12GB or 16GB of RAM. Europe gets only the 12GB/512GB configuration.

Back to the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its NPU is used not just for AI number crunching, but allegedly, it can also help the ISP in processing images and videos from the camera. The video decoding engine now supports native H.266.

The new Dimensity 9600 Pro proves to be a worthy successor to the Dimensity 9500 that powered the Find X9 Pro last year. It offers higher CPU and GPU performance and also seems to outperform even the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC in the combined AnTuTu 11 scenario. That's also valid for the great performance in advanced ray-tracing graphics tests, which propels the Dimensity 9600 Pro to the top, meaning MediaTek is doing something right when it comes to ray-tracing.

However, in pure CPU- and non-advanced GPU-bound workloads, last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 still outperforms the Dimensity 9600 Pro.

Sustained performance

Sustained performance on the Find X10 Pro Max is nothing to write home about, but it's also exactly what you'd expect from a phone running on a high-performance, flagship chipset.

CPU and GPU stress tests

The CPU and GPU throttling was prominent, and performance dialed down to around 50-60% of the maximum in both of our thermal tests.