Xring O1 vs A18 Pro

We compared the 10-core Xiaomi Xring O1 (Mali-G925 Immortalis MP16) with the older 6-core Apple A18 Pro (Apple A18 Pro GPU) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Xiaomi Xring O1
  • Performs 2.5x better in floating-point computations
  • Has 4 more cores
  • Shows significantly better (up to 66%) AnTuTu 11 score – 2963K vs 1782K
  • Supports 28% higher memory bandwidth (76.8 against 60 GB/s)
Pros of Apple A18 Pro
  • Higher GPU frequency (~7%)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
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AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Xring O1 +66%
2963052
1782199
CPU 937172 521852
GPU 996086 562674
Memory 409648 187942
UX 620146 509731
Total score 2963052 1782199
Samples [5 tests] [15 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
2746
A18 Pro +30%
3570
Multi-Core Score
8431
A18 Pro +6%
8923
Asset compression 332.8 MB/sec 299.9 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 236.9 pages/sec 191.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266 Mpixels/sec 196.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 208.8 images/sec 319.6 images/sec
HDR 262.9 Mpixels/sec 289.5 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 32.7 images/sec 37.6 images/sec
Photo processing 80.1 images/sec 91 images/sec
Ray tracing 8.25 Mpixels/sec 9.03 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 14 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
21512
A18 Pro +55%
33278
Background blur 42.3 images/sec 62.5 images/sec
Face detection 14.3 images/sec 78.2 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.9 Gpixels/sec 0.98 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 1.15 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.72 Gpixels/sec 1.5 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.22 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 71.6 Gpixels/sec 100 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 2977 FPS 3659.7 FPS
API Vulkan Metal
Samples 4 tests 7 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Xring O1 +39%
2413
1732
Score 2413 1732
Stability 92% 71%
Graphics test 18 FPS 13 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Xring O1 +19%
9022
7585
Score 9022 7585
Graphics test 34 FPS 29 FPS
Section 1 37 FPS 35 FPS
Section 2 35 FPS 30 FPS
Section 3 31 FPS 21 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
5832
n/a
Score 5832 -
Graphics test 34 FPS -

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
15735
n/a
Web score 17566 -
Video editing score 6957 -
Data manipulation score 15048 -
Photo editing score 27481 -
Writing score 19142 -
Phones tested 3 models -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Xiaomi Xring O1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-28 (Satoru_Goatjo)AnTuTu 112842416
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-09 (Albert)CPU Throttle92%
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-05 (Albert?)Geekbench 6 GPU21512
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-05 (Albert?)Geekbench 6 CPU2746 / 8431
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-05 (Albert?)AnTuTu 112963052
Apple A18 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (FontFrontPromptORG)Geekbench 7 CPU3087 / 8369
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-23 -> RappzzzzAnTuTu 112043169
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-20 (thuanday)AnTuTu 112043169
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-17 (Jonibek)AnTuTu 111692383
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-21 (Neuron)AnTuTu 111500141

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Xring O1 and A18 Pro

CPU

Architecture 2x 3.9 GHz – Cortex-X925
4x 3.4 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
2x 4.05 GHz – Everest
4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth
Cores 10 6
Frequency 3900 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache - 192 KB
L2 cache - 16 MB
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
Transistor count 19 billion -
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) - 10 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G925 Immortalis MP16 Apple A18 Pro GPU
Architecture Valhall 5th gen Apple Bionic GPU
GPU frequency 1392 MHz 1490 MHz
Pipelines 16 6
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 2048 768
FLOPS 5701.6 Gigaflops 2289 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 3.0 -
DirectX version 12.1 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance 44 TOPS 35 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5T LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 3750 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 76.8 Gb/s 60 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 NVMe
Max camera resolution - 1x 48MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- Motion JPEG
Audio codecs - AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- AAC
- AAX
- AAX+
- AC-3
- AIFF
- CAF
- E-AC-3
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem MediaTek T800 Snapdragon X71 5G
4G support - LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7900 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 4200 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 5.4 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced May 2025 September 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - APL1V07
Successor - - Apple A19 Pro

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Unfurkable August 14, 2025 at 01:04 PM
Do u expect iphone 16 PM to beat this master chip??? I think probadly.......
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