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The Honor Magic 9 series is launching on September 28 in China, and the teasers are in full swing. The company recently confirmed the full lineup along with its color and memory options. A Geekbench listing now confirms the processor powering the Honor Magic 9 Pro Max, the top-tier model in the series.
A device carrying the model number WKL-AN20 has shown up in the benchmark’s database, and the specs line up with what’s already confirmed for the Pro Max.
The chip is listed under the name QTI SM8975, which is rumored to be the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro (or 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6). You get eight cores in total, led by two prime cores running at 5.01GHz, three performance cores at 4.03GHz, and three efficiency cores at 3.74GHz. The Adreno 850 handles graphics.
The device has 14.78GB of RAM, which rounds up to the 16GB tier Honor has already confirmed for this model, and the build information points to Android 17 running underneath MagicOS.
Honor Magic 9 Pro Max Geekbench scores
On Geekbench 6, the device pulled 3,448 points in the single-core test and 9,353 in multi-core. The single-core number is actually a step down from the Magic 8 Pro‘s global listing, which hit 3,664 with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 last year, though multi-core jumped by close to 1,700 points.
However, pre-production software on a leaked listing rarely matches what you’ll get once the phone actually ships, so treat these numbers as a rough preview rather than a final word.
This isn’t the SM8975’s first appearance on Geekbench, either. The same chip already turned up on a Xiaomi 18 Pro Max listing, where it scored 3,582 in single-core and 12,247 in multi-core. That run was on Geekbench 7 rather than 6, so the figures aren’t directly comparable to Honor’s phone.
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