The final round was divided into two sections: daylight and nighttime. In the daylight test, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra bagged 54% of the votes, leaving the Xiaomi 15 Ultra and Vivo X200 Ultra with 4% and 42%, respectively. In nighttime photography, however, the tables turned — the Xiaomi 15 Ultra won with 73% of the votes, with the Samsung and Vivo devices recording 22% and 4%, respectively.
Xiaomi’s victory in the nighttime test wasn’t an accident. Though its telephoto and ultrawide lenses struggled with low-light shots in our tests, the main camera thrives in the low-light conditions as revealed in our review. This is largely due to the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s large 1/0.98″ LYT-900 sensor, which is bigger than the 1/1.28″ LYT-818 and the 1/1.3″ ISOCELL HP2 sensors in the Vivo X200 Ultra and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.
Here is how the devices ranked in the end:
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra (44% of votes)Vivo X200 Ultra (29% of the votes)Xiaomi 15 Ultra (27% of votes)
NB: These blind tests involved the Versus community — not professional photographers. They were also very limited — involving only the main camera and, for the most part, daylight photos. For a more grounded comparison, refer to detailed analyses like the one we made comparing the Xiaomi 15 Ultra, Oppo Find X8 Ultra, Vivo X200 Ultra, and Galaxy S25 Ultra.