iQOO has a few new smartphones lined up for the Chinese market, including the iQOO 15, iQOO Neo 11, and iQOO Neo 11 Pro. Among these, the iQOO 15 is expected to debut in China this October, while the Neo models may debut in November or December. Recent developments have revealed the iQOO 15’s Geekbench listing and possible launch timeline. Additionally, the global version of the device was recently certified by Nemko, shedding light on a key detail about the phone. Continue reading ahead to know all the new developments about the iQOO 15.
iQOO 15 Geekbench listing
Reports have revealed that the iQOO 15 has the model number V2505A for the Chinese market, whereas its global edition has the I2501 model number. The V2505A device was recently spotted with a 100W charger at the 3C certification platform. Now the same model has appeared in Geekbench’s database with an underclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. There’s a possibility that this underclocked chip could be the rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 5.
The chip has two cores working at 4.19GHz, six cores operating at 3.55 GHz, and an Adreno 840 GPU (as per Geekbench’s source code). The clock speeds are suspiciously slower than the regular version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which has two cores operating at 4.61GHz, six cores running at 3.63GHz, along with the same GPU.
The Geekbench listing further reveals that the iQOO 15 comes with 12GB of RAM and runs on Android 16. In the single-core and multi-core tests, the device managed to score 2,360 and 7,285 points, respectively. By comparison, the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max’s Geekbench listing shows that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 can achieve over 11,000 points in multi-core performance.
Therefore, the considerably lower scores achieved by the iQOO 15 are mainly due to the lower clock speeds of its chipset. Hopefully, newer Geekbench listings, which are expected to surface in the coming days, will reveal the iQOO 15’s chipset details and performance.
The other screenshot reveals that the iQOO 15 global version has surfaced at the Nemko certification. The listing confirms that the device will have wireless charging support, a feature that was unavailable in the previous generations.
iQOO 15 launch date (rumored)
The Xiaomi 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max debuting later this month will be the world’s first phones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 onboard. In a recent Weibo post, tipster Digital Chat Station hinted that the Honor Magic 8 series featuring the said chipset is tentatively scheduled to launch on Oct. 16 in China.
As can be seen above, today’s Weibo post by DCS states most of the other Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 sub-series brands will be unveiled in late October. Vivo’s sub-brand iQOO is tentatively scheduled to unveil the iQOO 15 on Oct. 20. At present, there is no information about the launch timeframe of the global edition of the device, but it is expected to happen a few weeks after the China launch. Readers can visit our iQOO 15 posts to know more about the device.
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