Xiaomi’s XRING O1 Custom Chip Could Be Surprisingly Powerful

The rumors of Xiaomi joining the custom chip gang were finally made official last week. Now we know that the company will be unveiling its first-ever custom smartphone SoC, called the XRING O1. Xiaomi is the second-largest Android OEM in the world, so it is hard to say that it doesn't deserve to make a custom chip if it really wants to.

For its first attempt at making a chip, it was normal to expect it to be relatively limited compared to the options from MediaTek and Qualcomm—heck, even Samsung with its Exynos chips. However, if a leaked Geekbench result of the XRING O1 proves true, the initial estimates of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 performance might have been an underestimate.

Xiaomi's XRING O1 Chip Could Be Powerful Enough to Sit With the Snapdragon 8 Elite

There's a lot more to a phone chip than just raw power, but that's the aspect of the spec sheet that we tend to be concerned about the most. It's easy to take a look at an SoC's raw power by checking its benchmarks and comparing it to past and present devices. At the moment, the best chips you can get in a phone are the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and the MediaTek Dimensity 9400+. It looks like Xiaomi's chip will join them.

According to leaked Geekbench results for an unknown Xiaomi device (allegedly the Xiaomi 15S Pro), the XRING O1 will hit Geekbench numbers that surpass the Dimensity 9400 and sit just under the Snapdragon 8 Elite. These leaks come courtesy of both Ice Universe and Jukanlosreve on X, both of whom are very reliable tipsters. However, both tipsters present results that are notably different, though both are still good.

The table below demonstrates the performance on Geekbench for Xiaomi's new chip, as well as the results that you'll see from other competing high-end SoCs.

Here Are Some Details on the Core Configuration for the XRING O1

Although Xiaomi hasn't made too much known about the exact layout of the cores in the XRING O1, it has confirmed that the chip is going to be built on a 3nm process, just like the other top-end options that are currently available. However, we can get some extra insights from the Geekbench report. It might be worth taking them with a pinch of salt, though, and here's why:

• Geekbench says it will be a 10-core CPU. That's an odd choice considering the best of the best all stick with 8-core chips.
• The maximum clock speed is said to be 3.9GHz, which is pretty high. The Snapdragon 8 Elite goes higher, but that'd be powerful for a first-attempt chip.
• The results listed earlier differ quite significantly between the two sources.

Either way, if Geekbench's result ends up being fully accurate, expect a Xiaomi chip with two 3.9GHz prime cores, four 3.4GHz performance cores, and what seems to be two clusters of efficiency cores: two at 1.89GHz and two at 1.80GHz.