A new soon-to-launch Xiaomi smartphone has
recently appeared in the database of Geekbench dubbed as the Mi 10E. The
listing at Geekbench revealed that it will be a handset equipped with the
2.7GHz 7nm Exynos 990 octa-core processor and Mali-G77 MP11 GPU. Geekbench also
revealed that it has 8GB RAM and it goes with Android 10 OS out of the box.
Exynos 990 is the same chipset found on
the Samsung Galaxy S20 series. However, this is not a well-received high-end chipset
due to performance inconsistencies and throttling. Even if Samsung claimed that
this chip is on par with the Snapdragon 865, most benchmark and actual tests
showed that the Exynos 990 is the inferior chip. A recent test also showed that
it is even slower than the mid-range MediaTek Helio 90T in terms of gaming.
Xiaomi's use of this SoC is a bit
questionable because its Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro flagship phones are powered by
Snapdragon 865. Maybe, Xiaomi will position this device as a mid-ranger, not a
flagship.
