Xiaomi 17 review - A compact Android smartphone heralding a new era

[Redaktion]

Xiaomi's new flagship phone comes with top-of-the-line hardware, HyperOS 3, as well as a compact form factor. It also possesses a massive 7,000 mAh battery that is likely to set the benchmark for battery life in 2026. Our review is the perfect place to discover how well the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phone actually performs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-17-review-A-compact-Android-smartphone-heralding-a-new-era.1150243.0.html

[Genuinely Surprised]

That is some very impressive single threaded performance in geekbench shown by the 8 Elite Gen 5.

I think this is the first time ever(?) that I have ever seen an android phone finally equal apples cpu in like the last 10 years, ever since they went custom in-house.

I guess all the ex-apple CPU architects leaving really had an impact to them and it was a smart decision in the end qcomm buying Nuvia.

[Browsing kinda slow tho]

In the Geekbench 6 multi-core test, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 significantly outperforms its Apple counterpart.

15% (Xiaomi 17) to 21% (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 -- QUALCOMM's own test device) is nice.
29% faster in 3DMark / Wild Life Extreme Unlimited than iPhone 17 is solid.

But WTH is this?:

This compact mobile phone is a very good choice for browsing the internet, despite the rather poor results in browser benchmarks.

You say it yourself: These are super disappointing and unexpected results for this, newest and fastest, highest tier, smartphone SOC. In all the tested browsing benchmarks, the iPhone 17 scores 2-3x higher (Mozilla Kraken 1.1: 634.81 ms vs iPhone 17' 263.1 ms). Also the Xiaomi 17 scores much lower than older SoCs and e.g. the Xiaomi 15 scores 12% to 65% higher and 635 ms vs 454 ms for the Xiaomi 15. Why? Let's see if other phones with this SD 8 Elite Gen 5 SOC score this unexpectedly low, but I don't expect it, implying the Xiaomi 17 has a bug that slows it down, missing libraries or if it's on purpose for whatever reason(s) (power consumption and therefore heat being an issue?, artificial market segmentation?, ?).

The Qualcomm SoC's power consumption is slightly more power-hungry at idle than its predecessor, the Xiaomi 17.

21% to 34% is not "slightly": Ask AI for which % increase the word "slightly" can be used (try lmarena.ai), it's mostly for single percentages increases, and borderline when it's close to a 10% increase. You might call it "slightly" at a 10% increase, because it's the idle measurement, but that's still about it.

[Browsing kinda slow tho]

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Let's see if other phones with this SD 8 Elite Gen 5 SOC have this idle power increase.

lack of transparency

What do you mean by this, official software support duration?

[N]

What do you mean lack of transperancy?