A few days ago, Xiaomi‘s gaming-focused sub-brand Black Shark announced that the Black Shark 5 and 5 Pro will debut in Malaysia on June 8th. This will be the first time the devices are made available outside China.

Now, it appears that the company also has plans to launch the smartphones in the European market as a new report from Appuals has revealed the storage, color options, and renders of the upcoming Europe models.

According to the report, the Black Shark 5 and 5 Pro will both be available in two configurations –  8GB RAM + 128GB storage and 12GB RAM + 256GB storage. The vanilla variant will be available in Black and Grey colors while the Pro model will debut with Black and White color options.

Black Shark 5 series specs

The Black Shark 5 and 5 Pro both come with a 6.67-inch FHD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels) E4 AMOLED display with variable refresh rates of up to 144Hz. They offer a peak brightness of 1300nits, DC dimming, HDR10+, and 100% P3 color gamut. Other than that, the display has a 720Hz touch sampling rate for lightning-fast touch responsiveness while gaming.

Under the hood, the vanilla variant comes powered by the Snapdragon 870 chipset while the Pro model hosts a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. Both the models will come with LPDDR 5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage, however, the Pro model will likely offer Xiaomi’s Disc Array 2.0 (UFS + SSD combination) to boost the read and write speeds up to 55% and 69% respectively.

Other features include a 4650mAh battery on both devices paired with 120W fast charging, Android 12-based Joy UI 13, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, and pop-up magnetic triggers for gaming.

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