Vivo iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus vs Samsung Galaxy A33 5G
76
out of 100
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47
out of 100
Here we compared two smartphones: the 6.78-inch Vivo iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus (with Mediatek Dimensity 9300 Plus) that was released on September 24, 2024, against the Samsung Galaxy A33 5G, which is powered by Exynos 1280 and came out 2 years and 7 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Vivo iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus
- 3.9x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (2401K versus 615K)
- Has 3x more RAM: 12GB versus 4GB
- Higher display refresh rate – 144 Hz
- Comes with 1400 mAh larger battery capacity: 6400 vs 5000 mAh
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
- Supports higher wattage charging (80W versus 25W)
- Has a 0.38 inch larger screen size
- Compatible with Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
- 10% higher pixel density (453 vs 411 PPI)
- The phone is 2 years and 7 months newer
- Thinner bezels – 5.7% more screen real estate
- Has a built-in infrared port
Reasons to consider the Samsung Galaxy A33 5G
- Expandable storage via MicroSD card up to 1024GB
- Waterproof body (IP67 classification)
- More recent OS version: Android 16 versus 14
- Slow-motion recording at 480FPS
- Supports Dolby Atmos sound technology
- The front-facing camera can record video at 4K
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | AMOLED | Super AMOLED |
| Size | 6.78 inches | 6.4 inches |
| Resolution | 1260 x 2800 pixels | 1080 x 2400 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 20:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 453 ppi | 411 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 144 Hz | 90 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes | No |
| Max rated brightness | 1300 nits | 500 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 4500 nits | 1000 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | No |
| Touch sampling rate | 300 Hz | - |
| Screen protection | Tempered glass | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 89.3% | 83.6% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
- DCI-P3 |
| RGB color space | - | 98.3% |
| PWM | - | 366 Hz |
| Response time | - | 1 ms |
| Contrast | - | ∞ Infinity |
Screen space comparison
iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus
6.78″ (20:9 ratio) = 17.2 in2
Galaxy A33 5G
6.4″ (20:9 ratio) = 15.3 in2
~12% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 163.72 mm (6.45 inches) | 159.7 mm (6.29 inches) |
| Width | 75.88 mm (2.99 inches) | 74 mm (2.91 inches) |
| Thickness | 7.98 mm (0.31 inches) | 8.1 mm (0.32 inches) |
| Weight | 196 g (6.91 oz) | 186 g (6.56 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP64 | IP67 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | - |
| Rear material | Plastic | Plastic |
| Frame material | Plastic | Plastic |
| Colors | White, Black, Gray | White, Black, Blue, Yellow |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Mediatek Dimensity 9300 Plus | Samsung Exynos 1280 |
| Max clock | 3400 MHz | 2400 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) | 8 (2 + 6) |
| Architecture | - 4 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 3 cores at 2.85 GHz: Cortex-X4 - 1 core at 3.4 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
- 6 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A55 - 2 cores at 2.4 GHz: Cortex-A78 |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 5 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | MediaTek NPU 790 | Yes |
| Graphics | Immortalis-G720 MC12 | Mali-G68 |
| GPU shading units | 1536 | 128 |
| GPU clock | 1300 MHz | 897 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~3993.6 GFLOPS | ~229.6 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 15375 | 2312 |
| Single-core score | 2307 | 951 |
| Multi-core score | 7526 | 2041 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 735030 | 256114 |
| GPU | 838848 | 71758 |
| Memory | 317557 | 95251 |
| UX | 509884 | 192302 |
| Total score | 2401319 | 615425 |
| Samples | [13 tests] | [11 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 67% | - |
| Graphics test | 13 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 1821 | - |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Graphics test | 28 FPS | - |
| Section 1 | 31 FPS | - |
| Section 2 | 29 FPS | - |
| Section 3 | 25 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 7461 | - |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | - | 99% |
| Graphics test | 27 FPS | 3 FPS |
| Graphics score | 4546 | 628 |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 12245 | 9628 |
| Video editing | 5417 | 7350 |
| Photo editing | 27211 | 22696 |
| Data manipulation | 12554 | 8838 |
| Writing score | 23220 | 13552 |
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (#169th place)
Recent User Tests
Vivo iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-17 (NK808) | AnTuTu 12 | 2667628 |
| 📘 2026-07-10 (Sony elison) | AnTuTu 11 | 2449800 |
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Valeron8935) | AnTuTu 11 | 2372317 |
| 📘 2026-01-13 (barebuh) | AnTuTu 11 | 2282616 |
| 📘 2025-12-31 (Abila) | AnTuTu 11 | 2374721 |
Samsung Galaxy A33 5G
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-21 (eimakill) | AnTuTu 12 | 709508 |
| 📘 2026-06-11 (Pikolano) | AnTuTu 11 | 690864 |
| 📘 2026-04-08 -> eimakill | Geekbench 6 GPU | 2343 |
| 📘 2026-04-08 -> eimakill | Geekbench 6 CPU | 949 / 2116 |
| 📘 2026-04-08 -> eimakill | AnTuTu 11 | 657287 |
Memory
| RAM size | 12 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory clock | 4800 MHz | - |
| Channels | 4 | 2 |
| Storage size | 256 GB | 128 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 2.2 |
| Memory card | No | MicroSD |
| Memory card max size | - | Up to 1024 GB |
Software
| Operating system | Android 14 | Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 16) |
| ROM | OriginOS 4 | One UI 8.0 |
| OS size | - | 26 GB |
| OS updates | 3 years | 4 years |
| Security updates | 4 years | 5 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 6400 mAh | 5000 mAh |
| Max charge power | 80 W | 25 W |
| Battery type | Li-Po | Li-Po |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | No | No |
| Reverse charging | Yes | No |
| Fast charging | Yes (50% in 23 min) | Yes (50% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 0:47 hr | 1:15 hr |
| Web browsing | - | 07:57 hr |
| Watching video | - | 13:06 hr |
| Gaming | - | 05:24 hr |
| Standby | - | 106 hr |
General battery life
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 48 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8192 x 6144 | 8000 x 6000 |
| Zoom | Digital | Digital |
| Flash | LED | LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | No | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 30FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 240 FPS (1080p) | 480 FPS (720p) |
| Angle of widest lens | - | 123° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Ultrawide: 8 MP |
1) Standard: 48 MP 2) Ultrawide: 8 MP 3) Macro: 5 MP 4) Depth: 2 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 48 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.8 | f/1.8 |
| Focal length | - | 26 mm |
| Sensor | Sony LYT-600 | Sony IMX582 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.95" (≈ 0.51 inch) | 1/2.0" (≈ 0.5 inch) |
| Pixel size | 0.7 micron | 0.8 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 8 MP | 8 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | - | 13 mm |
| Sensor | GalaxyCore GC08A3 | Sony IMX355 |
| Sensor size | 1/4" (≈ 0.25 inch) | 1/4.0" (≈ 0.25 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.12 micron | 1.12 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Image resolution | - | 5 MP |
| Aperture | - | f/2.4 |
| Sensor | - | GalaxyCore GC5035 |
| Sensor size | - | 1/5" (≈ 0.2 inch) |
| Pixel size | - | 1.12 micron |
| Stabilization | - | No |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | - | 55 |
| Preview | - | 51 |
| Zoom | - | 58 |
| Samples | - | Photo samples of Samsung Galaxy A33 5G from DxOMark |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 16 megapixels | 13 megapixels |
| Image resolution | - | 4160 x 3120 |
| Aperture | f/2.5 | f/2.2 |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K3P9 | CMOS |
| Sensor size | 1/3.0" (≈ 0.33 inch) | 1/3.1" (≈ 0.32 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | - |
| Autofocus | No | No |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 30 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) | Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.4 | 5.1 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | PBAP/PAB, PAN, OPP, MAP, HSP, HID, HFP, DIP, AVRCP, A2DP |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 2 | 2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | No | - |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
| NFC* | Yes | Depends on the region |
| Infrared port | Yes | No |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | Standby |
| eSIM support* | No | No |
| Hybrid slot | No | Yes |
| LTE Cat* | - | 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | No | Yes |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Mid-range |
| Announced | September 2024 | March 2022 |
| Release date | September 2024 | April 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $310 | $369 |
| Successor | - | - Samsung Galaxy A37 5G |
| Sensors | - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Hall-effect sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Yes, 80 W | Not included |
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Vivo iQOO Z9 Turbo Plus is definitely a better buy.
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