Redmi K100 appears on Geekbench ahead of 27 October launch
A Geekbench 7 listing points to 16GB of RAM and Snapdragon 8 Elite silicon for Xiaomi’s Redmi K100 before its China launch.
Xiaomi’s Redmi K100 has appeared on Geekbench ahead of its 27 October launch in China, adding an unconfirmed performance snapshot to the specifications the company has already revealed.1
The Geekbench 7 listing identifies the phone as model M786BC. It records 16GB of RAM, Android 17 and a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor with six cores clocked at 3.53GHz and two at 4.32GHz. The device scored 2,705 points in the single-core test and 9,885 points in the multi-core test.2
Those results should be treated as a preview rather than a guarantee of retail performance. Benchmark listings can reflect pre-release software, and the listing does not prove that every Redmi K100 sold at launch will use exactly the same memory or firmware configuration. Xiaomi has not publicly confirmed the Geekbench entry itself.
The benchmark does line up with the phone’s announced positioning. Xiaomi has already shown the Redmi K100 in a green design and confirmed a 6.83-inch display with a 165Hz refresh rate, peak brightness of 3,500 nits, 480Hz multi-finger touch reporting and 3,500Hz instantaneous touch sampling. The phone will also include a dedicated D2 gaming chip and ship with HyperOS 4, according to the company’s promotional material.1
The Redmi K100 is due to launch in China on 27 October 2026. Xiaomi has not confirmed an international release. The previous Redmi K100 Pro and K100 Pro Max reached overseas markets under Poco branding, but that does not establish that the standard model will follow the same route.
Our opinion
The Geekbench appearance is useful mainly because it fills in a performance detail Xiaomi has not yet foregrounded: the standard Redmi K100 appears to be staying close to the flagship silicon used by its more expensive family members. That makes the display, battery, camera system and eventual price more important than the benchmark headline. A fast chip alone will not make this a compelling phone, and a pre-release score cannot tell us how well HyperOS 4 or the D2 gaming chip behaves in daily use. The launch should answer those practical questions, while the Geekbench entry remains an interesting but provisional data point.
1 Xiaomi/Redmi promotional material, reported by Notebookcheck.2 Geekbench 7 listing linked by Notebookcheck.