Realme 9i review: 90Hz Snapdragon 680 mid-budget with 33W charging.
Efficient budget volume.
Realme 9i leaned on the efficient Snapdragon 680 for long battery life, pairing it with a 90Hz screen, stereo speakers and 33W charging at $200 — a dependable budget volume seller across India and Southeast Asia.
01Display
74/100At 74/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among budget phones of 2022 — 9 points above the cohort average.
02Camera
60/10060/100 puts it above the 57-point average for budget phones of 2022.
03Performance
60/100At 60/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2022 — 7 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
80/10080/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2022.
05Build
64/10064/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2022.
- Efficient 6nm Snapdragon 680
- 90Hz + stereo + 33W at $200
- microSD + 3.5 mm jack
- IPS not AMOLED
- 2 MP filler lenses
- 5G absent despite 2022 launch
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 188-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .