The Realme GT7 Pro is a remarkable successor to last year’s GT5 Pro, with its big sensor periscope camera that was able to make it to the sub-3,000 price range. And this year, realme continued with the “cost-effectiveness” strategy with Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition at just 3,000.
Among the major upgrades, the GT7 Pro sports the world’s first Eco² Sky Screen, made in cooperation with Samsung Display, which provides more brightness while reducing power consumption. The Samsung S2 flexible screen realizes 120% DCI-P3 color gamut and offers visuals 20% wider than professional monitors.
In photography, the GT7 Pro is equipped with a triple-refractive periscope module that reduces the thickness of the camera by 31%, thus embedding the telephoto capability in a sleeker design.
But the most obvious upgrade would be the battery. In collaboration with CATL, realme has fitted the GT7 Pro with a 6,500mAh battery, which is 1,100mAh larger than its predecessor, and cut down the overall thickness by 7.4%. The new silicon-carbon negative electrode technology greatly improves battery capacity and density.
Other upgrades include improved eye protection and quicker fingerprint unlocking. Accordingly, with these refinements, the GT7 Pro is one of the most affordable powerful Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition flagships. Next, let’s take a look at how the Realme GT7 Pro performs in real-world testing.
Design
The Realme GT7 Pro is exceptional in design, with its glass featuring a unique titanium texture. This is also the first phone from Realme that sports an iso-depth four-micro-curve design. Its striking appearance combines the sleek feel of a flat screen with the elegance of a curved one. The phone offers a stunning visual experience: content seems to float in water.
It’s a bespoke S2 flexible screen, developed in cooperation with Samsung, covering 120% DCI-P3 color gamut, which is 20% wider than professional monitors, and it shows vivid, richer colors. Boasting 2000 nits of global peak brightness, the GT7 Pro offers great visibility even under strong sunlight.
By leveraging Eco² OLED Plus with 8T LTPO, it cuts power consumption by up to 52%, offering the best performance efficiently down to every frame. Having a 6,500mAh battery match with 120W fast charging, it has one of the best battery life among flagships: 16 hours.
The design features three colors: Mars, Star Trail Titanium, and Light Domain White, with the Star Trail Titanium model showcasing the texture of the titanium-metal on glass. The camera module is sleek, using a ship-style three-refractive periscope that keeps bulk to a minimum. The GT7 Pro is crafted into perfection with aerospace-grade aluminum, marrying aesthetics and performance so well.
Performance and Gaming
In detail, the realme GT7 Pro houses the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition chipset, which is paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB UFS 4.0 storage. As such, we have conducted serious tests on this setting concerning performance and game playing by enabling GT mode while disabling memory expansion.
Performance Test
The CPU performance was strong in Geekbench6, with scores of 3063 in single-core and 9272 for multi-core-scores up 41% and 45.5% over the previous generation. Quite simply, Snapdragon 8 Extreme represents the most considerable leap in performance of the last ten years. The Androbench test measured UFS 4.0’s sequential read/write speeds of 4.07GB/s and 3.93GB/s, and random read/write speeds of 321.83MB/s and 373.41MB/s, respectively.
Gaming Test
We then tested the gaming performance of GT7 Pro using “Honor of Kings,” “Genshin Impact,” and “Honkai Impact 3” under the highest settings.
- Honor of Kings: The average was 120.22 FPS and ran quite smoothly. The back temperature remained cool at 33.9°C.
- Genshin Impact: Ran with an average of 59.56 FPS, with few frame drops within 15 minutes. The temperature was maintained at 36.3°C, 3°C cooler than the previous model.
- Honkai Impact 3: Smoothly ran at 59.9 FPS, where the back temperature was only 39.2°C.
The realme GT7 Pro handles even intensive gaming with ease with pretty good heat management.
Charging and Battery Life
For the first time in the industry, the realme GT7 Pro is equipped with a huge 6500mAh battery and supports 120W ultra-fast charging. In collaboration with CATL, the phone introduced a new Titan battery that used next-generation silicon-carbon anode material with 10% silicon content, allowing both battery density and capacity to be improved. Although the battery has increased by 1100mAh compared to the previous model, it still maintains an ultra-thin body of as little as 8.55mm.
Charging Test
We put the phone on charge when its battery was at 1%. After 10 minutes, it had reached 45%, and after 20 minutes, it was at 76%. The full charge was completed in just 33 minutes-which is excellent for such a large capacity. Currently, no other phone on the market offers this combination of large battery capacity and ultra-fast charging.
Imagine finding your phone nearly dead before heading out—within 10 minutes, you can have almost half your battery back, enough to handle most short trips or urgent situations.
Battery Life Test
By running the realme GT7 Pro through the Battery Dog testing tool, it emerged with a time of 14 hours and 26 minutes before powering down to 20% battery, which roughly translates to 16 hours of total battery life. The GT7 Pro thus positioned itself right in front of the flagship phone battery life rankings.
Full-Focus Periscope Triple-Camera with Enhanced Telephoto Capabilities
Where the realme GT7 Pro impresses is in its periscope triple-camera system. The primary camera makes use of the new 50MP Sony IMX906 sensor with a 1/1.56-inch photosensitive unit and an f/1.8 aperture, greatly improving low-light clarity in images.
The telephoto camera comes equipped with the latest LYT600 sensor, IMX882, with a 1/2-inch sensor size. The native focal length extends from 65mm to 73mm, supporting 3x optical zoom, 6x lossless zoom, and up to 120x ultra-telephoto digital zoom. A ship-style triple-refraction structure reduces weight by 31% and lens protrusion by 25%, striking a balance between telephoto performance and slim design.
The ultra-wide-angle camera employs an 8MP IMX355 sensor with 112° of field of view, rounding out the versatile setup.
Camera Performance
Camera: The large 1/1.56-inch sensor shoots sharp, natural, and vibrant dayshots. It even keeps colors accurate in backlight conditions and is excellent in terms of lighting balance.
Night Mode: The GT7 Pro does very well for night photography, keeping clarity high when facing bright sources of light. Night shots capture excellent detail with minimal noise.
Telephoto: The 3x optical zoom yields clear and detailed images with natural saturation, while the lossless zoom at 6x retains quality and detail, making the periscope camera ideal for capturing targets far away without losing resolution. Be it shooting landscapes or fine details, the GT7 Pro does an impressive job.
The camera system in realme GT7 Pro unfolds a premium photography experience in every scenario, making it a strong opponent in the flagship smartphone market.
Conclusion
With the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition inside, the realme GT7 Pro is the most powerful flagship this year from Realme. Equipped with a Samsung-customized Eco² Sky Screen and a 6500mAh CATL Titan battery, this is truly a device that masters both performance and battery life.
The GT7 Pro leads the game with top-notch performance, running hardware-demanding titles like *Genshin Impact* and *Honkai Impact 3rd* smoothly, alongside exceptional frame rates and no overheating. This positions it among the top Android flagships.
For photography, with its 50MP main camera and ship-style three-refractive periscope telephoto lens, the GT7 Pro delivers leading image quality across all zoom ranges: from 3x optical all the way to 120x digital, even in difficult-to-handle lighting scenarios.
The battery life of the phone is an essential highlight, having the largest 6500mAh capacity among all flagships and topping the battery life test by Battery Dog. It supports 120W fast charging, which can ramp it up from 1% to 50% in just 10 minutes, so rest assured of quick recovery even on super-heavy use. This is despite its large battery; the device maintains slimness at 8.55mm thick, offering a perfect balancing act between longevity and design.
The realme GT7 Pro makes for an excellent option with its high-profile feature set: Snapdragon 8 Extreme, 120W charging, Samsung’s premium display, full-focus periscope triple camera, and Qualcomm’s ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. It is an extraordinary performer with great value in the flagship segment.
