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Upgrade from Mi 9T Pro to todays midrange (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone. Back in 2019 I bought a Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro at release. Now the charging port, software and battery are starting to cause some serious issues, which is why I am looking to get a new phone. After some search the Motorola Edge 50 Neo seemed to be a good candidate, with a good mix of decent price/performance and not being Xiaomi (I hate the OS). Now to my actual question: Looking at benchmarks, it seems like my Mi 9T Pro has roughly the same performance as the Edge 50 neo, if not better. Am I reading that correctly? Would I not see an improvement in performance with this "upgrade"? Is a rather top tier phone from ~5.5 years ago comparable to a mid ranger from today?

Any input or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

lineageOS supports Mi 9T. (Not sure if it includes the pro version)

i was thinking of getting a 9T to install lineage. There aren't many phones without the front camera :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, but it seems like this is not for the Pro version. There are some ROMs on XDA, including an unofficial LineageOS one, but at least for me the days of running custom ROMs on my daily driver are over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gsmarena has the answers you seek.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah their website is really great, especially the compare function! Sadly for the benchmarks they of course always use the benchmarks available at test time, so the scores they report for the two phones are not comparable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Motorola Edge 50 Neo seems indeed nice. Performance wise, you might indeed not get that much more (https://www.topcpu.net/en/soc-c/qualcomm-snapdragon-855-vs-mediatek-dimensity-7300), because Motorola cheaped out a bit on the CPU.

I have a Motorola Edge 30 Fusion, the CPU is quite faster, in this case you would really see a gap: https://www.topcpu.net/en/soc-c/qualcomm-snapdragon-855-vs-qualcomm-snapdragon-888

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah thanks for the links! I find it very hard to compare mobile CPUs, with all their different splittings between clock frequencies and so on. According to your link and most of the other stuff I saw the performances should not be too dissimilar in either way. Given hoe the actual performance of my phone is not one of the problems I think I will just get the Edge 50 Neo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I'm a bit late but mid range Dimensity chips are generally more power efficient than last gen Snapdragons (888, 8 Gen 1) which means the battery should last longer - not just for a single charge but for overall battery health, as you don't need to charge it as often

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds good! Feel free to let us know how it goes after you got it, it's always interesting!