Samsung’s flagship only takes tenth place in the DXOMARK ranking. A surprise when you see the great critical reception it received. Explanations.
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has been hailed by the entire tech press as an exceptional phone. At DXOMARK, a company specializing in lab testing of phones, we decided to play the mood breakers. The ultra top of the range from Samsung has just received its note for the photo part. Surprise, he is only 10th in the standings.
Don’t panic, it’s far from being dishonorable. The phone is even ahead of its elder, the Galaxy S22 Ultra which is in 17th place. So you could say that Samsung has moved up the DXOMARK ladder. But still, with 140 points, it finds itself behind the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, a two-year-old phone, and the iPhone 13 Pro, which is from a year ago.
Why such a decline?
So what is fishing? Already, the phone does not collect any best score on any of the subcategories of the test (photo, bokeh, preview, zoom and video).
In detail, DXO praises a very good general level of detail, a wide dynamic range in all conditions, details preserved in zoom, very effective video stabilization and good autofocus.
On the side of criticism, they regret “low contrast in backlit scenes”, “noise in low light and indoors”, “occasional local loss of detail on faces”, “blending artifacts in all conditions”, “slight white balance effects and finally an “occasional underexposure of faces in low light videos”.
There are still a few points where the S23 Ultra exceeds its competitors, in particular on the zoom where it exceeds the iPhone 14 Pro (logical since the latter starts from an X3). On the other hand, the Honor Magic 4 Ultimate and Huawei Mate 50 Pro retain the advantage.
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