Now that the hoo-ha surrounding the OnePlus Nord has started to disappear, all eyes are on the company’s next flagship, the OnePlus 8T. Last years OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 Plus, so we’re pretty sure their successors will have the new Snapdragon 865 Plus under the hood. And they don’t have to accept our word as friends in 91 mobiles have seen a OnePlus device in Geekbench 5 with this silicon.
The device bears the model number KB2001 and is powered by a Qualcomm chip codenamed “Kona”, and is likely to be the Snapdragon 865 Plus. It has 8GB of RAM and scored 912 points in the single-core test and 3,288 points in the multi-core test. This is just a minor improvement over the OnePlus 8 that the Snapdragon 865 carries and not as good as what was recently released Lenovo Legion Phone Duel apparently succeeded. Lenovo’s gaming-centric phone is also powered by the same silicon.
Is this the OnePlus 8T that we see in Geekbench?
The OnePlus 8T will probably be announced in September and there is probably more work to do. Therefore, the final results will surely improve. And, in any case, benchmarks don’t necessarily reflect a device’s real-life performance.
Benchmarks are also easy to fake, so take this report with a pinch of salt.
OnePlus 8T is designed to come with a better camera and faster charging
If the above reports are to pass, the OnePlus 8T will swap OnePlus 8’s 48MP camera for 64MP sensor. Also expected to support 65W Super Warp Charging and at least one of the phones in the series will have a 120Hz screen. It could also be one of the first phones to ship with Android 11.
