Realme GT 8 Pro: Ricoh-Tuned 200MP Camera, Swappable Lens Module, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Power
Realme GT 8 Pro is emerging as a high-end flagship with a unique camera system and top-tier internals. The company has confirmed (via teaser posts and promotional materials) that the phone will feature a camera co-engineered with Ricoh Imaging, and ship with Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Realme GT 8 Pro Brings Ricoh-Tuned Triple Camera System Realme GT 8 Pro will highlight a 50MP Sony IMX906 primary sensor (1/1.56″, f/1.8) and a 200MP Samsung ISOCELL HP5 periscope telephoto (also 1/1.56″) in the rear camera setup. The telephoto module supports about 6× in-sensor zoom and 12× hybrid zoom, with macro shooting down to 25cm. An additional 50MP ultra-wide (116°, f/2.0) sensor completes the triple camera system. All three lenses use special Ricoh-tuned optics: a new “GR” anti-glare lens coating promises higher light transmission and reduced lens flare. This Ricoh partnership also extends to software. Realme has shown a “Ricoh GR Mode” in the camera app, which mimics the classic Ricoh shooting experience. For example, the phone offers two hard-coded focal lengths (28mm and 40mm equivalent) staples of Ricoh’s GR line accessible via a fast-start UI. A dedicated “Snap Mode” quick-focus feature, the authentic GR shutter sound, and five traditional Ricoh image-tone filters (Standard, Positive Film, Negative Film, Monotone, High-Contrast B&W) are built in for street-photography enthusiasts. Sample images published in Realme’s teasers (and surfaced on Weibo) emphasize the phone’s creative range everything from vibrant colour shots to high-contrast black-and-white reflecting this new image-tuning partnership Realme GT 8 Pro Design, Colours, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Performance Detailed The GT 8 Pro’s headline design twist is its interchangeable camera island. Realme has officially demonstrated that the metal surround over the rear cameras is held on by two screws and can be swapped out like a modular “lens cover”. By default the phone ships with a circular lens cover; Realme is including a metal square cover (and even a matching case) as a free accessory for initial buyers in China. In promotional videos and teasers, Realme shows other replacement panels in fun shapes and finishes transparent, hexagonal, flower-patterned, velvet-textured, etc. This makes the GT 8 Pro one of the first smartphones to let users literally “change the look” of the camera island without touching the hardware inside. The mechanism is simple: unscrew the old metal plate, screw on a new one, and the main camera unit underneath remains the same. Reviewers note that this adds a playful, customizable twist to an otherwise conventional glass-and-metal design. Realme has confirmed three colour/finish options for the GT 8 Pro: White (with beige undertones), Blue, and Green. The blue and green editions have a new matte “paper-like” textured finish on the back. A tinny detail from the teasers: the blue appears to shift subtly from deep navy to lighter teal depending on light, and the white has a warm off-white look (as if beige). The chassis itself is metal and the back panel is frosted (AG matte) glass, which Realme says feels premium yet resists fingerprints. Despite packing a 7,000mAh battery inside, the phone weighs about 214g and is roughly 8.2mm thick. Overall the design is restrained apart from the camera island – it’s a typical “slab” shape with flat sides, but the swappable module and new finish give it a distinctive personality without being wildly avant-garde. The GT 8 Pro uses Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (marketed as Gen 5) system-on-chip. This is Qualcomm’s fifth-generation flagship 8-series chip (the successor to last year’s “Gen 4/Elite” and built on a TSMC 3nm process). It features two 4.6GHz “Oryon” performance cores and six 3.62GHz efficiency cores, paired with the new Adreno 840 GPU. Realme also confirms a 6.78-inch 2K OLED (144Hz) display and ultra-fast 120W wired charging for the 7000mAh battery. According to Qualcomm’s official numbers, this Gen 5 chip offers roughly 20% higher CPU performance and 23% higher GPU performance over its predecessor, while cutting power draw by about 35%, AI/ML processing is also faster the on-board Hexagon NPU is said to be 37% faster in peak performance. Realme GT 8 Pro Performance and Benchmark Results Independent benchmarks largely confirm those claims. In early tests (on Qualcomm’s reference hardware), Geek bench 6 multi-core scores jumped roughly 19-20% over last year’s model , and 3DMark graphics scores were about 20-23% higher. In fact, the new chip’s multi-core CPU results surpassed Apple’s current A19 Pro (used in the latest iPhones) by about 20–25%. In short, for raw speed the Snapdragon Gen 5 is winning head-to-head comparisons against Google’s Tensor G5 and even outpacing Apple’s latest mobile silicon. Of course, these benchmarks were peak short bursts. In sustained stress tests the chipset still throttled significantly (performance eventually fell to 58% of peak after prolonged load), which is common for thin smartphones. Realme is countering this with its cooling system (a large 7K mm vapor chamber) and software optimizations (the so-called GT Performance Engine 3.0) to keep frame rates and AI tasks smooth during heavy use.
