Vivo X300 Ultra vs Xiaomi 17 Ultra: Sample Photos Comparison
With top notch specs, this battle is mostly about the different approaches to image processing
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A battle of the Chinese camera heavyweights | Image by PhoneArena
These are probably the best smartphone cameras coming from China in 2026 — the Vivo X300 Ultra and the Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
With a massive, round camera island on the back, both phones take the camera system seriously, but they also have a few fundamental differences.
Vivo X300 Ultra vs Xiaomi 17 Ultra Camera Specs:
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| vivo X300 Ultra | Xiaomi 17 Ultra |
| Main camera | |
|---|---|
| 200 MP (OIS, Laser autofocus, PDAF) Sensor name: Sony LYT-901 Aperture size: F1.9 Focal length: 35 mm Sensor size: 1/1.12″ |
50 MP Aperture size: F1.7 Focal length: 23 mm Sensor size: 1" |
| Second camera | |
| 50 MP (Ultra-wide, OIS, PDAF) Sensor name: Sony LYT-818 Aperture size: F2.0 Focal Length: 14 mm Sensor size: 1/1.28" Pixel size: 1.22 μm |
50 MP (Ultra-wide) Aperture size: F2.2 Focal Length: 14 mm Sensor size: 1/2.76" Pixel size: 0.64 μm |
| Third camera | |
| 200 MP (Telephoto, Periscope, OIS, PDAF) Sensor name: Samsung ISOCELL HP0 Optical zoom: 3.7x Aperture size: F2.7 Focal Length: 85 mm Sensor size: 1/1.4" Pixel size: 0.56 μm | 200 MP (Telephoto, Periscope) Optical zoom: 4.2x Aperture size: F2.4/F3.0 Focal Length: 100 mm Sensor size: 1/1.4" Pixel size: 0.56 μm |
| Fourth camera | |
| ToF 3D depth sensing | |
| Front | |
| 50 MP | 50 MP |
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Vivo is the only major smartphone maker that bets on a 35mm main lens. This is traditionally a lens best suited for taking pictures of people on the street. The Xiaomi uses a more common 23mm lens for its main camera, which is wider and better suited for landscapes. Here, Xiaomi has an advantage as it uses a slightly bigger sensor for the main camera.
But what if you want to achieve a similarly wide field of view (24mm-ish) on the Vivo? Well, you have to use a crop of the ultra-wide camera.
And here is where it gets interesting. Vivo understands that people still value a wide lens, so that's why it features a massive ultra-wide camera with a sensor almost as big as its main camera. In fact, the 1/1.28" ultrawide sensor on the Vivo has roughly 3.7 times more surface area than the 1/2.76" ultra-wide sensor on the Xiaomi!
Finally, the third lens, a telephoto one uses the exact same sensor size on both phones, so this is the closest to hardware parity we get.
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Let's take a look at photos from these two side by side:
Main Camera 35mm
Main Camera Wide
We took these photos at 28mm on the Vivo X300 Ultra (a crop of the ultra-wide camera), while we used the main 1X camera on the Xiaomi 17 Ultra at 23mm.
Portrait Mode
Zoom
Ultra-wide Camera
Selfies
So, who do you think takes the win in this comparison: the Vivo X300 Ultra or the Xiaomi 17 Ultra?
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