Redmi K100 shows up on Geekbench days before launch

The standard Redmi K100 has appeared on Geekbench just days before its launch in China on October 28. The listing, which carries the model number Xiaomi M786BC, shows the phone’s performance with the Snapdragon chip Redmi has already confirmed.

On Geekbench 7, the phone scored 2,705 in the single-core test and 9,885 in the multi-core test. The listing also shows 16GB of RAM and Android 17, while Redmi has already confirmed the phone will ship with HyperOS 4.

The listing shows the phone running the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, with two cores clocked at 4.32GHz and six at 3.53GHz, alongside an Adreno 830 GPU. Redmi also used the same chip in last year’s Redmi K90. The newer Redmi K100 Pro and K100 Pro Max, meanwhile, use processors from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 family.

What Redmi has confirmed about the K100

Redmi has already revealed several of the phone’s key specifications, including a 6.83-inch AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate and peak brightness of up to 3,500 nits. The company says the high refresh rate is supported in more than 40 games, and the device also has a dedicated D2 display chip to handle additional gaming-related tasks.

The phone has a 10,000mAh battery, bigger than the 8,580mAh cell in the Redmi K100 Pro and the 9,070mAh cell in the Redmi K100 Pro Max.

Moreover, the phone will be available in Firefly Green among other colors, and pre-orders are already open in China ahead of the October 28 launch. Redmi will also introduce its Redmi Clip Neo open-ear earphones at the same event. As for pricing, current reports suggest the standard K100 could start at around 3,500 yuan (~$525).

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