POCO X6 5G: New benchmark leak confirms re-branding of popular Xiaomi Redmi Note smartphone

Another unreleased Xiaomi smartphone has been spotted on Geekbench, shortly after the company introduced the Redmi K70 series. For reference, only a few weeks have passed since the now Redmi K70E surfaced on the benchmarking platform with a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 series chipset. This time, someone has been testing '23122PCD1G', a model number that Geekbench associates with the codename 'garnet'.

As always, Geekbench does not refer to the handset by name. Nonetheless, both '23122PCD1G' and 'garnet' have recently appeared online and linked to the model name POCO X6 5G. According to Kacper Skrzypek, these details tied the POCO X6 5G to the Redmi Note 13 Pro, which is expected to receive a European release of its own soon. To that end, the global version of the Redmi Note 13 Pro arrived on Geekbench last month as '2312DRA50G', a direct sibling of '2312DRA50C' that Xiaomi sells in China as the Redmi Note 13 Pro.

The new Geekbench listings for 23122PCD1G tie the POCO X6 5G and Redmi Note 13 Pro together by virtue of their shared SoC identifiers, 'ARM implementer 65 architecture 8 variant 1 part 3393 revision 2'. As we have discussed in relation to the Redmi Note 13 Pro, this identifier confirms that the POCO X6 5G utilises the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, a chipset that sits below the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 in Qualcomm's nomenclature. Unfortunately, Geekbench also shows that the POCO X6 5G will launch with Android 13, plus 12 GB of RAM like its Redmi Note 13 Pro counterpart. Please see our Redmi Note 13 Pro launch article for more details about Xiaomi's latest 200 MP mid-range smartphone.

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