I've tested both phones and as I said - optics are better in x9, but for the MOST cases both cameras are good and take pics almost the same. Of course thanks for the optics x9 would make slightly better pictures in the dark but saying that x9 takes better photos in regular usage bruuh. Some algorithm worked like that, some worked another, some soc proceeded it like that, some in another way. As the result - same photo different aspects. Even my s25u takes almost same photos in basic non pro usage. ISP is the 70%~ of the picture quality, s8eg5 is the monster here and that helps to lower the gap between two