The AnTuTu results were one of the first figures shared by Xiaomi during the official XRING 01 announcement, with a slide showing that the chipset obtained a score of 3,004,137. While it is common for companies to inflate the actual results of their products for marketing purposes, these tall claims were almost immediately put to the test by an independent reviewer. Unfortunately, the XRING 01 could not replicate the results, with the same benchmark showing a 13 percent lower score.
What is even more disappointing is that the XRING 01 ended up being slower than the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 in the same AnTuTu benchmark
The V10 version of AnTuTu was run by Chinese reviewer S.White, with the XRING 01 obtaining a score of 2,613,424. Unlike a controlled environment, ambient temperature plays a crucial role in spiking the temperatures of various components, including Xiaomi’s in-house chipset, which is what we believe is the primary reason for this score disparity. The more disappointing part about these results is that, despite being mass produced on the same TSMC 3nm N3E process, the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 ended up being faster in this test.
Qualcomm’s latest and greatest silicon secured a score of 2,954,535, registering a 13 percent higher figure than the XRING 01. The Snapdragon 8 Elite would already have the edge here because it features custom Oryon cores, but how about a competitor that sports nearly the same configuration as Xiaomi’s custom silicon? The Dimensity 9400 sports such specifications, with the exception that, unlike the XRING 01, MediaTek’s flagship SoC does not have any low-power cores. The end result is that the Dimensity 9400 wins this race too.
It is important to note that the devices featuring the Snapdragon 8 Elite and Dimensity 9400 were not mentioned, meaning that we cannot draw a better conclusion from these results. Not every smartphone is equipped with the same cooling solution, and even though they sport the same chipset, the existence of a comprehensive vapor chamber has a meaningful difference in AnTuTu’s results. So far, the XRING 01 is only found in the Xiaomi 15S Pro and the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra, and perhaps we will have a better understanding of how the chip performs when we look at various teardown clips.
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