Xring O1 vs Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

We compared the 10-core Xiaomi Xring O1 (Mali-G925 Immortalis MP16) with the older 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (Adreno 825) 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 2.4x better in floating-point computations
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Has a smaller size transistor (3 versus 4 nm)
  • Shows better (up to 28%) AnTuTu 11 score – 2963K vs 2314K
  • 21% higher CPU clock speed (3900 vs 3210 MHz)
  • Higher GPU frequency (~21%)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
Xring O1 +28%
2963052
CPU 937172 645495
GPU 996086 809405
Memory 409648 372805
UX 620146 486712
Total score 2963052 2314417
Samples [5 tests] [457 tests]

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Xring O1 +33%
2746
Multi-Core Score
Xring O1 +27%
8431
Asset compression 332.8 MB/sec 293.4 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 236.9 pages/sec 188.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 266 Mpixels/sec 207.8 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 208.8 images/sec 152.7 images/sec
HDR 262.9 Mpixels/sec 216.4 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 32.7 images/sec 23.4 images/sec
Photo processing 80.1 images/sec 55.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 8.25 Mpixels/sec 7.25 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 50 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Xring O1 +16%
21512
Background blur 42.3 images/sec 33.5 images/sec
Face detection 14.3 images/sec 16.8 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.9 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 1.15 Gpixels/sec 0.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.72 Gpixels/sec 1.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.22 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 71.6 Gpixels/sec 70.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 2977 FPS 2750.3 FPS
API Vulkan Vulkan
Samples 4 tests 35 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Xring O1 +43%
2413
Score 2413 1688
Stability 92% 83%
Graphics test 18 FPS 13 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Xring O1 +18%
9022
Score 9022 7641
Graphics test 34 FPS 29 FPS
Section 1 37 FPS 34 FPS
Section 2 35 FPS 29 FPS
Section 3 31 FPS 25 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Xring O1 +57%
5832
Score 5832 3705
Graphics test 34 FPS 22 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Xring O1 +3%
15735
Web score 17566 15597
Video editing score 6957 7750
Data manipulation score 15048 13734
Photo editing score 27481 26988
Writing score 19142 17764
Phones tested 3 models 8 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 (Luis)AnTuTu 122422061
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-29 (Thai)AnTuTu 122603535
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-29 (Aasif Juggar)AnTuTu 122498485
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Aasif Juggar)CPU Throttle78%
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (Thai)AnTuTu 122562298

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Xring O1 and Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

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
1x 3.21 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Cores 10 8
Frequency 3900 MHz 3210 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache - 128 KB
L2 cache - 2 MB
L3 cache - 8 MB
Process 3 nanometers 4 nanometers
Transistor count 19 billion -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G925 Immortalis MP16 Adreno 825
Architecture Valhall 5th gen Adreno 800
GPU frequency 1392 MHz 1150 MHz
Pipelines 16 2
Shading units 128 512
Total shaders 2048 1024
FLOPS 5701.6 Gigaflops 2355.2 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 1.3
OpenCL version 3.0 3.0
DirectX version 12.1 12

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Hexagon
NPU theoretical performance 44 TOPS -

Memory

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 4.0
Max display resolution - 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution - 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC LC
- FLAC
- HE-AACv1
- HE-AACv2
- MP3
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem MediaTek T800 Snapdragon X75
4G support - LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7900 Mbps Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 4200 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 5.4 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced May 2025 April 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - SM8735
Official page - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 official site

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