With few exceptions, smartphones are cooled passively – the brand new Oppo K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Professional buck that development and convey a tiny fan to maintain their chipsets cool even throughout lengthy gaming classes.
The Oppo K13 Turbo is powered by the Dimensity 8450, a 4nm (TSMC) chip with eight Cortex-A725 cores and a Mali-G720 MC7 GPU.
Oppo K13 Turbo with Dimensity 8450 • Oppo K13 Turbo Professional with Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
The Oppo K13 Turbo Professional encompasses a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 as a substitute – one other 4nm (TSMC) chip with eight CPU cores (one Cortex-X4, and 7 Cortex-A720) plus an Adreno 825 GPU. The Professional additionally has quicker UFS 4.0 storage (as much as 512GB), whereas the common Turbo has UFS 3.1 storage (as much as 256GB). Each characteristic LPDDR5X RAM as much as 16GB.
Whichever chip you select, it is going to be cooled by a micro centrifugal fan that spins at as much as 18,000 RPM and improves warmth dissipation by 20%. It has tremendous slender fan blades (0.1mm) and equally skinny warmth sink fins. The warmth sink can also be linked to a 7,000mm² vapor chamber.
An 18,000rpm cooling fan
Probably the most spectacular a part of the design is that the Oppo K13 Turbo and Turbo Professional have full water resistance rankings – IPX6 (splashes), IPX8 (submersion) and IPX9 (water jets). The fan can also be protected in case you drop the telephone.
The Oppo K13 Turbo telephones are totally waterproof
The totally different chipsets result in barely totally different thermals. For instance, after 3 hours of enjoying a well-liked MOBA sport in a 25°C room, the K13 Turbo (Dimensity 8450) remains to be operating at 119.9fps and is at 43.3°C. In an analogous situation, the K13 Turbo Professional is at 42.2°C.
Each telephones can certainly final a protracted whereas with their giant 7,000mAh batteries. Oppo advertises 5 years of worry-free battery life. The 80W SuperVOOC charger can get a useless battery as much as 68% in half an hour. Bypass charging (operating the telephone off wall energy) can also be an possibility.
7,000mAh batteries with 80W quick charging and battery bypass
The 2 telephones are geared up with 6.8” OLED shows with 1,280 x 2,800px decision and 10-bit colours. They’ve 120Hz refresh charge and 240Hz contact sampling charge. The panels peak at 1,600 nits brightness.
For gaming, each telephones implement body era, decision upscaling and Tremendous HDR with out placing further load on their respective GPUs.
Flat 6.8” 1280p+ OLED shows with 120Hz refresh charge
The digicam system is pretty primary with a 50MP sensor on the again (27mm f/1.8 lens) and 4K @ 60fps video assist. There’s additionally a 2MP depth sensor on the again. On the entrance, a 16MP selfie digicam (23mm f/2.4 lens) with 1080p @ 30fps video recording. Not less than the Professional mannequin has OIS on its important digicam.
The telephones are geared up with stereo audio system and X-axis linear motors for haptic suggestions. They’ve under-display fingerprint readers too (presumably the optical form).
Oppo K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Professional highlights
The Turbo Professional has Wi-Fi 7 (be) assist, whereas the Turbo solely affords Wi-Fi 6 (ax). Additionally they have totally different 5G band assist, which shall be necessary if and once they turn into obtainable globally.
Oppo K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Professional colours
The Oppo K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Professional are on pre-sale in China beginning at the moment and shall be obtainable from July 25 (Friday). Listed below are the Chinese language costs with a forex conversion to USD for context – these are fairly inexpensive for the efficiency and stage of engineering they provide.
| Oppo K13 Turbo | Oppo K13 Turbo Professional | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/256GB | CNY 1,800 | $250 | CNY 2,000 | $280 |
| 16/256GB | CNY 2,000 | $280 | CNY 2,220 | $305 |
| 12/512GB | CNY 2,300 | $320 | CNY 2,400 | $335 |
| 16/512GB | – | – | CNY 2,700 | $375 |
