Vivo’s Han Boxiao is back with another daily reveal for the Vivo X500 Pro series, and this time he’s moving from optics to silicon. After walking through the periscope telephoto cameras on the X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max yesterday, the Vivo product manager has confirmed that the Pro series will be the first phones to run on the Blue Crystal × Dimensity 2nm flagship chip, built jointly by Vivo and MediaTek.
Vivo hasn’t named the chip outright, since MediaTek hasn’t launched it yet, but everything points to the Dimensity 9600 Pro. It’s built on TSMC’s N2P process, 2nm that is.
As for the internals, the SoC is said to have a 2+3+3 tri-cluster design with two ARM C2-Ultra super cores, three C2-Premium large cores, and three C2-Pro medium cores. The chip will also have a new GPU architecture.
Vivo X500 Pro’s imaging features
Han also framed this as an imaging chip, not just a performance one, and laid out five features Vivo and MediaTek built together for video.
- There’s a dedicated professional Log video hardware zone for 4K 120fps 10-bit recording that’s ready for color grading straight out of the camera.
- A revamped imaging NPU handles 60fps autofocus tracking across every 4K focal length.
- Vivo’s own image chip drives what the company calls the industry’s first 4K Dolby portrait video, meant to get skin tones and dynamic range right without extra editing.
- A new AI processor handles one-tap video highlights.
- And a jointly developed XDZ engine that adds hardware-level super-resolution for zoomed-in footage.
This adds another piece to what Vivo has already confirmed about the series: a 17EV dynamic range ceiling and 3-degree gimbal-level stabilization on the camera side. Han says the next reveal lands tomorrow, which will move on to the display.
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