The Poco F8 series is really coming early. Xiaomi just confirmed the launch date in Indonesia through a teaser. Both Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra will be announced globally on November 26th at 16:00 (GMT+8) local time. Between teasers, the Poco F8 Pro also visited Geekbench. Here’s everything you need to know about the series.
Poco’s F7 series debuted in March this year. That means the F8 lineup is about four months too early. The teaser spree started in Hong Kong, by the way, with a partial design reveal. The leaked renders were right on the money. The camera deco seems to have space for at least three lenses and a Bose speaker.
Geekbench just confirmed that the Poco F8 Pro runs on a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. This was also suspected, since the phone is presumed to be a rebranded Redmi K90. It may be an early prototype, and Geekbench tested it with 12GB RAM and Android 16.
That hardware setup pushed the benchmark scores to 2288 (single-core) and 8404 (multicore) points. These results are about what you would expect from a 4.32GHz Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. This new Xiaomi Poco mobile is the company’s flagship device, so you’ll be getting top-tier GPU and CPU performance.
The F8 Ultra also ran a Geekbench test, and we learned that it has the fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip onboard, right next to 16GB RAM. It pushes the single and multicore scores to about 3451 and 10666 points, which is edging out Apple A19 Pro silicon in numbers.
It couldn’t be more obvious that the Poco F8 Pro and F8 Ultra are just your Chinese Redmi K90 and K90 Pro Max in disguise. The Bose speaker and acoustic design we saw in the teaser pretty much guarantee it. So you can expect the rest of their hardware to be identical.
We didn’t talk about the vanilla Poco F8 here, because that device may arrive later. Nothing noteworthy has appeared about its specs. We do know from their previous pattern that it could be a rebranded Redmi Turbo 5 Pro. But that phone has yet to come out in China. We’ll be doing a full coverage for the Poco F8 series at launch. You’ll probably see some follow-up stories in the meantime as more teasers appear.
