RedMagic 11 Air runs gaming flagships like ROG Phone 9 Pro close in early benchmarks
It seems that the next RedMagic 11 series smartphone is around the corner. At the tail end of last year, RedMagic indicated that a new affordable gaming smartphone was waiting in the wings. By all accounts, the smartphone in question is the RedMagic 11 Air, which has now turned up on Geekbench ahead of its launch.
Based on the two listings so far, the RedMagic 11 Air leverages the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset as many last generation flagships, rather than the newer Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 that graces the RedMagic 11 Pro and the OnePlus 15 (curr. $899.99 on Amazon), among others. By the looks of things, the RedMagic 11 Air could be one of the better-performing Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered smartphones, too.
For context, the chipset has achieved a median of 3,084 and 9,273 in Geekbench 6.5 with 3,228 and 10,401 maximums across single-core and multi-core benchmarks, respectively. While the RedMagic 11 Air does not touch the latter, its multi-core score of 9,934 would put it within the top 10 of Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered devices we have tested to date. Likewise, an OpenCL score of 19,151 gets the RedMagic 11 Air close to the ROG Phone 9 Pro but a way behind the RedMagic 10S Pro.
Additionally, both listings mention the Snapdragon 8 Elite's Adreno 830 iGPU and 16 GB of RAM. If the RedMagic 10 Air and RedMagic 11 Pro are anything to go by, then Nubia will offer the RedMagic 11 Air with multiple RAM configurations starting with 12 GB. However, it remains to be seen whether a 24 GB RAM option will also be available to match the RedMagic 11 Pro.
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