Xiaomi Mi3 running Tegra 4 processor and 1080 display spotted in latest benchmarks

AndiJuly 5, 2013

As the rumoured launch date draws closer, the Xiaomi Mi3 breaks cover once again in leakedbenchmarks showing off a Nvidia Tegra 4 processor and 1080 display!

GFXBench is a 3D graphics benchmark suite which allows you to compare performance of phone and tablet GPU’s. The online database is also a treasure trove of facts which include a devices screen resolution, processor and more and guess which phone has just been spotted there?

Chinese tech site MyDrivers are claiming to have spotted the Xiaomi Mi3 over on GFXBench where the phone not only performed admirably against the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC One and even the Nvidia Shield, but also let slip a few details about it hardware specs.

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In particular this version of the Xiaomi Mi3 seems to be running a Nvidia Tegra 4 processor clocked at 1.8Ghz, packs a 1920 x 1080display and is running Android 4.2.2 (current Xiaomi phones don’t run above Android 4.1).

Although a great find it still doesn’t confirm that Xiaomi have finalised the Mi3 specification and we could see a change in processor before August 16th!

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ahmed
July 6, 2013
hey andi wht is the cheapest rate for xiaomi mi2 in china answer in dollars please
Simon
July 6, 2013
If the launch date is August 16th, how long before its available to buy internationally ?
Harald
July 6, 2013
It’s the Xiaomi
liljohn
July 6, 2013
i prefer snapdragon 800, i heard that it is more energy friendly? and charging is faster?

liljohn
July 6, 2013
NEITHER TEGRA 4 NOR SNAPDRAGON 800 COULD BEAT INTEL’S UPCOMING BAYTRAIL AND MERIFIELD, THERE IS A LEAKED ANTUTU SCORE OF BAYTRAIL POWERED TABLET, THE SCORE IS 43K++ AND THAT IS ONLY CLOCKED AT 1.1GHZ (MAX 2.1GHZ), MAYBE EVEN TEGRA 5 AND SNAPDRAGON 900 ARE NO MATCH….
- Harald
  July 6, 2013
  - Amartya B
    July 6, 2013
    - Liljohn
      July 6, 2013
      I dont know, but intel stated that its not just very powerfull but also very efficient in battery use, if it could last for a full day or two on a single charge, no prob, is it not?
    - Liljohn
      July 6, 2013
      onepad, its
      powered only by intel’s old medfield,
      3g always on, wifi tether always on,
      sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make
      few phone calls n sms, whatsapp
      active, it could last for 19 hours! Is
      that gut enough? =)
    - Liljohn
      July 6, 2013
      My friend use asus fonepad, its
      powered only by intel’s old medfield,
      3g always on, wifi tether always on,
      sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make
      few phone calls n sms, whatsapp
      active, it could last for 19 hours! Is
      that gut enough? =)
      Baytrail will surely perform better

talk2ekpa
July 6, 2013
Well, Andi thanks for keeping us updated. The image above shows that mi3 is gonna have a really thin bezels, however, I’m not convinced of a tegra4 for the international version of mi3.
I’m of the opinion that mi3, may host an Intel BayTrail or snapdragon 800 processor. (check my forum topic below the page)
Let just keep watching…… 🙂
- Liljohn
  July 6, 2013
  I dont think so…its not even released yet…..and baytrail is not for smartphones, its for tablet, Expected release date nov-dec. For smartphones, intel merifield, wait until early 2014
- Simon
  July 6, 2013
  - mrliljohn@gmail.com
    July 6, 2013
    - liljohn
      July 6, 2013
      what forum do you mean? if its the review of asus fonepad that you are looking for, you can read it here, a reiew by sinosaurus (there are many other reviews)
      and that is, if u understand indonesian language, bahasa indonesia, or just gugle translate it….
  - liljohn
    July 6, 2013
    if what you mean is the intel baytrail and merifield, i read it on the net, i dont remember which site, just google it….

jammy
July 6, 2013
Of late, wait for Gizchina’s reviews are becoming similar to waiting for launch of phones from Jiayu……… Still waiting for review of Zopo C2, Zopo Zp980 and FAEA F1, since eternity….. 🙁
- Airyl
  July 7, 2013
Guest
July 6, 2013
K900?
Xiaolu
July 6, 2013
Strange… taking into account Xiaomi always used Qualcomm processors… since they received USD 90 millions (or so) to do so. But things change! I’d prefer QSD 800.
Guest
July 6, 2013
- Guest
  July 6, 2013

Jason
July 6, 2013
I also prefer Snapdragon 800, I think I have read somewhere that Snapdragon 800 is more power-efficient than Tegra 4.
Liljohn
July 6, 2013
My friend use asus fonepad, its powered only by intel’s old medfield, 3g always on, wifi tether always on, sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make few phone calls n sms, whatsapp active, it could last for 19 hours! Is that gut enough? =)

Liljohn
July 6, 2013
I dont think so…its not even released yet…..and baytrail is not for smartphones, its for tablet, Expected release date nov-dec. For smartphones, intel merifield, wait until early 2014
Guest
July 6, 2013
hey andi wht is the cheapest rate for xiaomi mi2 in china answer in dollars please
Liljohn
July 6, 2013
Maybe and hopefully, next year, xiaomi mi3s or mi4 will be powered by intel’s quadcore merifield, n they sell it in my country….. >o<

Liljohn
July 6, 2013
Its powerfull, its eficient, and the best part is….they PROMISED it will be cheap ! =)
They are going to dominate the market of mobile processor !
Guest
July 6, 2013
If the launch date is August 16th, how long before its available to buy internationally ?
Guest
July 6, 2013
It’s the Xiaomi

Mariner
July 6, 2013
Not bad performance considering that previous Tegras have been pretty middle of the road performance-wise. I don’t think it will be the fastest chip around when it is released, however. The fact that the leaked benchmarks are for GFXbench 2.5 instead of the more shader-heavy 2.7 leads me to think that the Snapdragon 800 will offer better performance.
The benchmarks I have linked from Anandtech are for the development tablet version of the S800 so clocks and performance will probably will certainly be a little lower to fit within a phone’s power envelope but it seems so much more powerful than the S600 chips that I’d be extremely surprised if the T4 could get close in graphically-intensive usage.
It will be interesting to see how well NVIDIA manage to get the power consumption side of the T4 working as all the previous chips using Cortex-A15s have been rather power hungry!

Edit: Click my name for the Anandtech link. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Guest
July 6, 2013
i prefer snapdragon 800, i heard that it is more energy friendly? and charging is faster?
Guest
July 6, 2013
NEITHER TEGRA 4 NOR SNAPDRAGON 800 COULD BEAT INTEL’S UPCOMING BAYTRAIL AND MERIFIELD, THERE IS A LEAKED ANTUTU SCORE OF BAYTRAIL POWERED TABLET, THE SCORE IS 43K++ AND THAT IS ONLY CLOCKED AT 1.1GHZ (MAX 2.1GHZ), MAYBE EVEN TEGRA 5 AND SNAPDRAGON 900 ARE NO MATCH….
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  Wow, I’m excited to see it
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  What bout the fact that baytrail takes 3 hours to charge?
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  I dont know, but intel stated that its not just very powerfull but also very efficient in battery use, if it could last for a full day or two on a single charge, no prob, is it not?
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  onepad, its
  powered only by intel’s old medfield,
  3g always on, wifi tether always on,
  sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make
  few phone calls n sms, whatsapp
  active, it could last for 19 hours! Is
  that gut enough? =)
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  My friend use asus fonepad, its
  powered only by intel’s old medfield,
  3g always on, wifi tether always on,
  sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make
  few phone calls n sms, whatsapp
  active, it could last for 19 hours! Is
  that gut enough? =)
  Baytrail will surely perform better

Guest
July 6, 2013
Well, Andi thanks for keeping us updated. The image above shows that mi3 is gonna have a really thin bezels, however, I’m not convinced of a tegra4 for the international version of mi3.
I’m of the opinion that mi3, may host an Intel BayTrail or snapdragon 800 processor. (check my forum topic below the page)
Let just keep watching…… 🙂
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  I dont think so…its not even released yet…..and baytrail is not for smartphones, its for tablet, Expected release date nov-dec. For smartphones, intel merifield, wait until early 2014
- Guest
  July 6, 2013
  Where is your forum topic ?
- Guest
  July 7, 2013
  dun hev one, just a reader not a forum member…
- Guest
  July 7, 2013
  what forum do you mean? if its the review of asus fonepad that you are looking for, you can read it here, a reiew by sinosaurus (there are many other reviews)
  http://m.kaskus.co.id/thread/516f7e357e1243751000000f/waiting-lounge-asus-fonepad/
  and that is, if u understand indonesian language, bahasa indonesia, or just gugle translate it….
- Guest
  July 7, 2013
  if what you mean is the intel baytrail and merifield, i read it on the net, i dont remember which site, just google it….

Guest
July 6, 2013
Of late, wait for Gizchina’s reviews are becoming similar to waiting for launch of phones from Jiayu……… Still waiting for review of Zopo C2, Zopo Zp980 and FAEA F1, since eternity….. 🙁
- Guest
  July 7, 2013
Guest
July 6, 2013
Strange… taking into account Xiaomi always used Qualcomm processors… since they received USD 90 millions (or so) to do so. But things change! I’d prefer QSD 800.

Guest
July 6, 2013
I also prefer Snapdragon 800, I think I have read somewhere that Snapdragon 800 is more power-efficient than Tegra 4.
Guest
July 6, 2013
My friend use asus fonepad, its powered only by intel’s old medfield, 3g always on, wifi tether always on, sync 3 emails-1facebok-1twitter, make few phone calls n sms, whatsapp active, it could last for 19 hours! Is that gut enough? =)

Guest
July 6, 2013
I dont think so…its not even released yet…..and baytrail is not for smartphones, its for tablet, Expected release date nov-dec. For smartphones, intel merifield, wait until early 2014
Guest
July 6, 2013
Maybe and hopefully, next year, xiaomi mi3s or mi4 will be powered by intel’s quadcore merifield, n they sell it in my country….. >o<

Guest
July 6, 2013
Its powerfull, its eficient, and the best part is….they PROMISED it will be cheap ! =)
They are going to dominate the market of mobile processor !

Guest
July 6, 2013
Not bad performance considering that previous Tegras have been pretty middle of the road performance-wise. I don’t think it will be the fastest chip around when it is released, however. The fact that the leaked benchmarks are for GFXbench 2.5 instead of the more shader-heavy 2.7 leads me to think that the Snapdragon 800 will offer better performance.
The benchmarks I have linked from Anandtech are for the development tablet version of the S800 so clocks and performance will probably will certainly be a little lower to fit within a phone’s power envelope but it seems so much more powerful than the S600 chips that I’d be extremely surprised if the T4 could get close in graphically-intensive usage.
It will be interesting to see how well NVIDIA manage to get the power consumption side of the T4 working as all the previous chips using Cortex-A15s have been rather power hungry!
Guest
July 6, 2013
Edit: Click my name for the Anandtech link. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Dandmcd
July 7, 2013
Well, I’m hoping they stick with Qualcomm for all carrier devices, as the Tegra series have disappointed me far too much the last couple years. I’ve had bad luck with any device I’ve touched with an Nvidia chip inside it. The 2 processor choice will be nice, some people love Tegra for gaming, though I see little benefit to it.

Guest
July 7, 2013
Well, I’m hoping they stick with Qualcomm for all carrier devices, as the Tegra series have disappointed me far too much the last couple years. I’ve had bad luck with any device I’ve touched with an Nvidia chip inside it. The 2 processor choice will be nice, some people love Tegra for gaming, though I see little benefit to it.
ZecaMarol
July 8, 2013
Is the Xiaomi Mi3 going to have option for two chips (dual sim and dual standby)?

Guest
July 8, 2013
Is the Xiaomi Mi3 going to have option for two chips (dual sim and dual standby)?
Hecke
July 9, 2013
Will it have LTE?
Thanks!
Guest
July 9, 2013
Will it have LTE?
Thanks!
Bot Efbe
September 16, 2014