The ASUS ROG Phone 2 will be the first smartphone to come with the new Snapdragon 855 Plus processor. Set to be announced next week, July 23, the device has been spotted on Geekbench, giving us a chance to see how powerful the new SoC is.
Benchmarked as the “asus ASUS_I001DC”, the ROG Phone 2 runs Android 9 Pie. It also has 12GB of RAM, though we expect there will be another RAM variant. Last year’s model was only available in a single RAM variant (8GB) but you could choose between 12GB or 512GB of storage.
The Geekebench result shows the motherboard name as “msmnile”, the same name it shows for a lot of other Snapdragon 855 phones. The base frequency is also the same at 1.78GHz. However, the ROG 2 scores slightly higher in its core test.
For the single-core test, the device scored 3616 points and scored 11,103 points in the multi-core test. This is just a bit higher than the average score of Snapdragon 855-powered phones. The difference isn’t large because the only difference between the SD855 and SD855+ is the higher CPU and GPU clockspeed of the latter.
The new processor is expected to show up in phones from Black Shark, Xiaomi, Redmi, Nubia’s Red Magic line, and Vivo’s iQOO later this year.
