The Xiaomi 14 will be one of the first flagships to be announced with Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so it would be assumed that the SoC would perform the same as seen in previous Geekbench 6 leaks. Not quite, as these results certainly caught us off-guard, with the A17 Pro unable to match the multi-core performance of the chipset, though single-core results are a whole different story.

Leaked specifications show that Xiaomi 14 is running a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with four cores operating beyond the 3.00GHz mark

The device that was spotted in Geekbench 6’s database is the ‘Xiaomi 23127PN0CC,’ and it features 16GB of RAM, with the testing board codenamed ‘houji.’ While nothing is out of the ordinary here, the CPU cluster is different compared to what we reported yesterday. Just recently, a leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 slide showed that Qualcomm has adopted a ‘1 + 5 + 2’ CPU cluster, but Geekbench 6 shows one core running at 3.30GHz and three operating at a 3.15GHz frequency.

Two other cores are said to function at 2.96GHz, making both just a fraction short of the 3.00GHz mark. Overall, the ‘1 + 3 + 2 + 2’ cluster enables Xiaomi 14 to post a multi-core score of 7,494, making it the fastest result we have ever seen from a mobile chipset. The feat obtained by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has allowed it to beat Apple’s 3nm A17 Pro powering the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, which attained a multi-core result of 7,024.

Leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 single-core and multi-core scores belonging to the unreleased Xiaomi 14

Unfortunately, in the comparison below, the A17 Pro has the last laugh in the single-core test, where the latter is 29 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. These results are interesting to see as the Xiaomi 14 is able to achieve these numbers while running a 4nm SoC, which will have improved power efficiency, but at least on paper, it lags behind TSMC’s 3nm architecture.

It can also mean that Xiaomi’s upcoming flagships may have used a beefy cooling solution to allow the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to sustain this level of performance, though we have no way of confirming what the ambient temperature was when running Geekbench 6. Oftentimes, when running the same benchmark, external factors play a pivotal role in determining the final score, so we will have to see how the chipset fares when exposed to hotter climates.

Regardless, beating the A17 Pro in the multi-core results shows that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is no slouch when it comes to performance, and we will be excited to compare other benchmark results when they leak out, so stay tuned.

News Source: Geekbench 6