Vivo S50 Pro mini matches Vivo X200 Ultra in first benchmark thanks to new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
Qualcomm has finally confirmed the launch date for its Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset following its preview in September during the company's most recent Snapdragon Summit. For reference, Qualcomm will fully unveil the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 on November 26, albeit perhaps only in China initially. In the meantime, Android OEMs have begun teasing their first devices backed by Qualcomm's latest high-end silicon.
As we have covered separately, OnePlus has hinted that the Ace 6T will take advantage of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. Now, Vivo has joined the party, with executive Han Bo Xiao confirming the chipset's usage in the upcoming S50 Pro mini. Writing on Weibo, the same executive outlines that Vivo has complemented the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 flash storage, just like the flagship X300, X300 Pro and X200 Ultra before it.
Apparently, the Vivo S50 Pro mini achieves around 3 million points in AnTuTu v10 'under normal room temperature conditions too, with Han Bo Xiao adding that this score easily surpasses 'previous sub-flagship models by over a million points'. Currently, the S50 Pro mini is expected to combine a 6.3-inch display with 50 MP primary and 50 MP periscope cameras, which would see it surpass Samsung's popular Galaxy S25 when it comes to camera hardware (curr. $674.99 on Amazon).
While this score is around 600,000 points higher than X200 Pro mini and its Dimensity 9400 Plus chipset, a circa 3 million score would be over double what the comparable X200 FE achieves in the same benchmark. Even assuming favourable conditions boosting the S50 Pro mini's score somewhat, this alleged performance should come close to the X200 Ultra, which averaged around 2.8 million in our benchmarks. Unfortunately, a release date remains unknown for now.
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