Xiaomi India will be launching the Redmi Note 9 smartphone in India on March 12. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, its announcement will be livestreamed across its social channels as there won’t be an offline unveil event. Like the predecessor Redmi Note 8 series, the Note 9 lineup reportedly includes Redmi Note 9 and Redmi Note 9 Pro. With a week remaining for its launch, the Redmi Note 9 Pro has been spotted on Geekbench with some keys specs.
The micro sites for Redmi Note 9 series on Xiaomi India’s website and Amazon India states that it is powered by a powerful processor. The Redmi Note 8 Pro was driven by the MediaTek Helio G90T processor whereas the Snapdragon 665 fueled the Redmi Note 8. It is yet to be confirmed which processors will be driving the Redmi Note 9 lineup.
The Redmi Note 9 Pro that has appeared on Geekbench 5 does not reveal the name of the processor that powers it. There is “curtana” mentioned in the motherboard field which could be the codename of the smartphone or the CPU. What’s known is that it is fueled by a Qualcomm chipset that includes an octa-core processor with 1.80GHz base frequency.
The Redmi Note 9 Pro is equipped with 6 GB of RAM and the device is preinstalled with Android 10 OS. In the single-core test of Geekbench 5, the Redmi Note 5 Pro scored 569 whereas it recorded a score of 1755 in the multi-core test.
Recently, the 8 GB RAM edition of the Realme 6 Pro smartphone was spotted on Geekbench 5 with similar benchmarking scores. The Realme 6 Pro is expected to debut as the first ever phone with Snapdragon 720G. There is a possibility that the same SoC could be driving the Redmi Note 9 Pro. The other expected features of the Note 9 Pro are 22.5W fast charging, quad rear cameras and gaming capabilities.
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