After AnTuTu, Qualcomm's upcoming flagship Snapdragon chip appears on Geekbench powering an alleged iQOO 16

Qualcomm is hosting its annual Snapdragon Summit next month, from September 22-24 in Hawaii, where it's expected to introduce two new flagship Snapdragon mobile chips. One is rumored to have part number SM8950, while the other is SM8975. The latter was spotted on AnTuTu over a week ago and has now appeared on Geekbench as well.

An unnamed device bearing model code vivo V2606A - and believed to be the iQOO 16 - has been listed on the Geekbench database with Android 17, 16GB RAM, and SM8975. The SM8975 was previously called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, but tipster Digital Chat Station recently claimed it will be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, while the SM8950 will be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.

According to Geekbench, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 has eight cores: two cores at a maximum clock speed of 5.01GHz, three cores at 4.03GHz, and the remaining three cores at 3.74GHz.

Alleged iQOO 16 on Geekbench

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6-powered iQOO 16 scored 3,434 and 9,334 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. By comparison, the iQOO 15 powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 scored 3,643 and 10,466 points in our Geekbench test.

vivo iQOO 15

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The iQOO 16 unit that ran Geekbench is probably a prototype, which likely led to a lower Geekbench score. The retail version will likely perform better, and previous rumors claimed the iQOO 16 would launch in September, but we haven't heard anything from the brand yet.

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