Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G vs Note 11 Pro 5G

Here we compared two mid-range smartphones: the 6.67-inch Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G (with MediaTek Dimensity 1080) that was released on October 27, 2022, against the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 and came out 9 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v5.2)
  • Optical image stabilization
  • Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
  • Ability to record video in 4K resolution
  • 20% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (713K versus 593K)
  • Compatible with Wi-Fi 6 wireless networks
  • Has 50% more RAM: 6GB versus 4GB
  • Delivers 20% higher peak brightness (886 against 739 nits)
  • More recent OS version: Android 14 versus 13
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
  • Shows 7% longer battery life (22:17 vs 20:44 hours)
  • Expandable storage via MicroSD card up to 1024GB

Review

Evaluation of Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G and Note 11 Pro 5G crucial features
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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6 / 128 GB
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4 / 128 GB
68.0
(Good)
Value Index
95.8
(Very good)

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests

Display

Type AMOLED AMOLED
Size 6.67 inches 6.67 inches
Resolution 1080 x 2400 pixels 1080 x 2400 pixels
Aspect ratio 20:9 20:9
PPI 395 ppi 395 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (60-120 Hz) No
Max rated brightness 500 nits 700 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 1200 nits 1200 nits
HDR support Yes, Dolby Vision Yes, HDR10
Touch sampling rate 240 Hz 360 Hz
Screen protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5 Corning Gorilla Glass 5
Screen-to-body ratio 86.7% 85.9%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
Display tests
RGB color space 98.9% 90.2%
PWM 120 Hz 521 Hz
Response time 1 ms 1 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 162.9 mm (6.41 inches) 164.2 mm (6.46 inches)
Width 76 mm (2.99 inches) 76.1 mm (3 inches)
Thickness 7.9 mm (0.31 inches) 8.12 mm (0.32 inches)
Weight 187 g (6.6 oz) 202 g (7.13 oz)
Waterproof IP53 IP53
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Plastic Plastic
Colors White, Black, Blue White, Gray, Blue
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-button Yes, in-button
Screen-to-body ratio

Performance

Chipset specifications of Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G and Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
SoC
Chipset MediaTek Dimensity 1080 Qualcomm Snapdragon 695
Max clock 2600 MHz 2200 MHz
CPU cores 8 (2 + 6) 8 (2 + 6)
Architecture - 6 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A55
- 2 cores at 2.6 GHz: Cortex-A78
- 6 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 660 Silver (Cortex-A55)
- 2 cores at 2.2 GHz: Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A78)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Lithography process 6 nanometers 6 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Hexagon 686
GPU
Graphics Mali-G68 MC4 Adreno 619
GPU shading units 128 256
GPU clock 950 MHz 840 MHz
FLOPS ~243.2 GFLOPS ~430.1 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G and Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
Compute Score (GPU) 2434 -
Single-core score 970 894
Multi-core score 2377 2030
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
CPU 278422 244614
GPU 75869 52776
Memory 144456 117908
UX 214715 177739
Total score 713462 593037
Samples [19 tests] [4 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Stability 96% -
Graphics test 2 FPS -
Graphics score 226 -
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Stability 99% 98%
Graphics test 3 FPS 2 FPS
Graphics score 629 358
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
Web score 9740 8210
Video editing 7113 4089
Photo editing 23332 17969
Data manipulation 10875 7924
Writing score 13190 11067

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-14 (Ditthaze)AnTuTu 11731937
📘 2026-07-25 (Eyy)AnTuTu 11713462
📘 2026-05-28 -> Ahmet-256378Geekbench 6 CPU873 / 2095
📘 2026-05-20 -> daniyarswqAnTuTu 11725690
📘 2026-05-19 -> ReperCPU Throttle100%
Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-08 (Prodexos1)AnTuTu 11593037
📘 2025-11-22 (Volodymyr)AnTuTu 11610290
📘 2025-11-06 (Said)AnTuTu 11538229
📘 2025-09-27 -> MidoriiyyyaaaaAnTuTu 11582398
📘 2024-04-04 (dannym420)Geekbench 6 CPU894 / 2030

Memory

RAM
RAM size 6 GB 4 GB
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory clock 2133 MHz 2133 MHz
Channels 2 2
Storage
Storage size 128 GB 128 GB
Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.2
Memory card No MicroSD
Memory card max size - Up to 1024 GB

Software

Operating system Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 14) Android 11 (Can be upgraded to Android 13)
ROM HyperOS 1.0 HyperOS 1.0
OS size 20 GB 31 GB

Battery

Capacity 5000 mAh 5000 mAh
Max charge power 67 W 67 W
Battery type Li-Po Li-Po
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging No No
Reverse charging No No
Fast charging Yes (78% in 30 min) Yes (74% in 30 min)
Full charging time 0:55 hr 0:45 hr
Battery life tests
Web browsing 08:41 hr 07:57 hr
Watching video 13:50 hr 12:43 hr
Gaming 05:43 hr 05:33 hr
Standby 89 hr 119 hr
General battery life

Main camera

Matrix 50 megapixels 108 megapixels
Image resolution 8192 x 6144 12032 x 9024
Zoom Digital Digital
Flash Dual LED LED
Stabilization Optical Digital
8K video recording No No
4K video recording Up to 30FPS No
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 30FPS
Slow motion 960 FPS (720p) 120 FPS (720p)
Angle of widest lens 119° 118°
Lenses 1) Standard: 50 MP
2) Ultrawide: 8 MP
3) Macro: 2 MP
1) Standard: 108 MP
2) Ultrawide: 8 MP
3) Macro: 2 MP
Camera features - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
Standard lens
Image resolution 50 MP 108 MP
Aperture f/1.9 f/1.9
Focal length 24 mm 26 mm
Sensor Sony IMX766 Samsung S5KHM2
Sensor size 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) 1/1.52" (≈ 0.66 inch)
Pixel size 1 micron 0.7 micron
Autofocus Phase autofocus Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel)
Stabilization Optical Digital
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 8 MP 8 MP
Aperture f/2.2 f/2.2
Focal length 16 mm -
Sensor Samsung S5K4H7 Sony IMX355
Sensor size 1/4" (≈ 0.25 inch) 1/2.8" (≈ 0.36 inch)
Pixel size 1.12 micron 1.14 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital
Macro lens
Image resolution 2 MP 2 MP
Aperture f/2.4 f/2.4
Sensor OmniVision OV02B1 Omnivision OV12A10
Sensor size 1/5" (≈ 0.2 inch) 1/2.9" (≈ 0.34 inch)
Pixel size 24 micron 1.25 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Generic main camera score
Bokeh 60 -
Preview 61 -
Zoom 70 -
Samples Photo samples of Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G from DxOMark -

Selfie camera

Megapixels 16 megapixels 16 megapixels
Image resolution 4608 x 3456 4608 x 3456
Aperture f/2.5 f/2.4
Sensor Omnivision OV16A1 Omnivision OV16A1Q
Sensor size 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch) 1/3.06" (≈ 0.33 inch)
Pixel size 1 micron 1 micron
Autofocus No No
Stabilization Digital Digital
Video resolution 1080p (Full HD) at 60 FPS 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No No

Connectivity

Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac)
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
- Dual Band
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.1
Bluetooth features LE LE, A2DP
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 2 2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
NFC* Yes Depends on the region
Infrared port Yes Yes
Network
Number of SIM* 2 2
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
eSIM support* No No
Hybrid slot No Yes
LTE Cat* - 18
5G support Yes Yes

Sound

Speakers Stereo Stereo
Headphone audio jack Yes Yes
FM radio No -
Dolby Atmos Yes Yes
Speakers test
Max loudness

Other

Category Mid-range Mid-range
Announced October 2022 January 2022
Release date March 2023 February 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $329
Successor - Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G -
Sensors - Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
Bundled charger Yes, 67 W Yes, 67 W
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.

Conclusion

If the display, camera, performance, connectivity, and software are more important to you, then choose the Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G. But if the battery life is more of a priority – go for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G.

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mcDee December 4, 2023 at 10:20 PM
Thank you for the info. This helped a lot.
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