Redmi just confirmed that the K100 Pro is the first phone to run the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5V, a trimmed-down cousin of the chip that’s inside the K100 Pro Max. Now that the phone is out in the wild ahead of its official reveal, tipster Digital Chat Station (DCS) has shared an early hands-on look at how it actually performs.
Start with the chip itself. The 8 Elite Gen5V keeps the same TSMC N3P process and 4.6GHz dual-core Oryon setup as the standard chip, so the CPU side is untouched.
The Adreno 840 GPU is where things are different. While the clock speed is the same, Qualcomm has trimmed the slice count from three to two and Graphics Memory (GMEM) shrinks from 18MB to 12MB. On paper, that reportedly puts benchmark scores at roughly 90% of the full 8 Elite Gen5.
Redmi K100 Pro gaming performance with new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5V chip
You’d expect that cut to show up in games, but DCS says it barely does. Since the CPU wasn’t touched, frame rates in popular titles are as high as the full 8 Elite Gen 5.
In Honor of Kings, DCS claims the K100 Pro averaged 144fps while drawing just 4W. Game for Peace hit 183fps at 4.5W, and Delta Force reached 185fps at 4.7W. Even Genshin Impact held a steady 60fps average, with only minor dips during heavy combat.
The K100 Pro also has the D2 discrete graphics chip and 185Hz RGB OLED screen found on the pricier K100 Pro Max, and DCS notes that its super-frame-rate performance and latency come close to matching that phone despite the smaller 6.59-inch panel.
None of this is official yet. Redmi has confirmed the chip and launch date of August 11, but hasn’t detailed the Gen5V’s gaming performance itself, so treat DCS’s numbers as an early, unofficial preview until Redmi shares its own figures.
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