OnePlus Ace 5 review: Last year's flagship chip and a 6,000 mAh cell at a China-killer price.
Flagship silicon, mid-range receipt.
Ace 5 hands you a full Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a 6,000 mAh silicon-carbon cell and 100 W charging for less than $400 — the classic OnePlus "flagship killer" formula, alive in China. The camera stack and short update window are the trade; for raw frames-per-rupee it is untouchable.
01Display
84/10084/100 — right at the average for upper mid-range phones of 2024.
02Camera
74/10074/100 — right at the average for upper mid-range phones of 2024.
03Performance
90/100At 90/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among upper mid-range phones of 2024 — 12 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
86/10086/100 — right at the average for upper mid-range phones of 2024.
05Build
76/10076/100 — right at the average for upper mid-range phones of 2024.
06Value
88/100At 88/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among upper mid-range phones of 2024 — 8 points above the cohort average.
- Full Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 — flagship gaming at $370.
- 6,000 mAh + 100 W charging.
- 1.5K 120 Hz AMOLED.
- Wi-Fi 7 at the price.
- 8 MP ultrawide.
- China-first availability.
- IP65 only.
- 3 OS updates trails Samsung/OnePlus global.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 15-phone cohort of upper mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .