ASUS ROG Phone 8 Ultimate GeekBench Listing Reveals Tweaked SD8 G3 SoC, 16GB RAM, Android 14 OS

ASUS launched the ASUS ROG Phone 7 and ROG Phone 7 Ultimate earlier this year. The company is already testing the series' successor. The ASUS ROG Phone 8 has been spotted on the popular benchmarking website Geekbench.

The Geekbench listing for the mystery ASUS phone reveals it is powered by a tweaked version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. Let's look at the key specifications, features, expected launch, price, and availability of the flagship no-compromise gaming smartphone from ASUS.

ASUS ROG Phone 8 And Phone 8 Ultimate Being Tested

The ASUS ROG Phone 7 series is expected to be refreshed this year. ASUS launched the ASUS ROG Phone 7 and ROG Phone 7 Ultimate in April 2023, and the ASUS ROG Phone 7D series is expected to be launched in December 2023.

This means ASUS could launch the ROG Phone 8 series next year, presumably in the second quarter. While the ROG Phone 7D series is expected to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 Plus | Ultra chipset, the ROG Phone 8 series is powered by the upcoming flagship chipset from Qualcomm, a leaked Geekbench listing has revealed.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset that is embedded inside the mystery ASUS ROG phone has a 1+5+2 CPU cluster. The chipset's motherboard is codenamed "pineapple", and its governor is named "Walt".

The single Cortex-X4 Prime Performance Core in the Snapdragon chipset is clocked at 3.19GHz. There are five Cortex-A720 Performance Cores clocked at 2.96GHz. The remaining 2 Cortex-A520 Efficiency Cores are clocked at 2.27GHz.

It is strange to note that Qualcomm is still using ARMv8 CPUs, which have been succeeded by ARM v9 CPUs. Previous reports have indicated the SoC will feature an Adreno 750 GPU.

The mystery ASUS phone scored 2213 points in single-core and 7048 points in multi-core tests. The listing confirms the device is packing 14.95GB or 16GB of RAM. It is quite possible that the ASUS ROG Phone 8 series may pack up to 24GB RAM.

The ASUS ROG Phone 8 series would run Android 14 OS out of the box. Being an ASUS smartphone, the smartphone would have a customized "System Preferences" feature that optimizes commonly used system settings for easy access.

ASUS ROG Phone 8 And Phone 8 Ultimate Expected Launch And Availability

ASUS is expected to launch the ASUS ROG Phone 7D series in December this year. The ASUS ROG Phone 8 series could launch in 2024, presumably in the second or third quarter.

The mystery ASUS device that appeared on Geekbench has the model number "ASUS_AI2401_A". This matches with the recent IMEI listing of the upcoming ASUS ROG Phone 8 series smartphones, which confirmed it is indeed the ROG Phone 8 Ultimate.