Xiaomi drew a lot of attention with their Redmi Note 5 Pro launched last week. The smartphone brought in the classic Redmi Note series formula with a new chipset and upgraded cameras. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 is a new chipset based on the latest SoC design architectures and efficient cores meant to maximise performance while taking care of the power management. The SD636 has just taken rounds of AnTuTu and is showing up pretty impressive scores.
An AndroidCentral report states that the Redmi Note 5 Pro has gathered an overall score of 112649, which is an incremental leap for a budget midrange chipset — the widely-used Snapdragon 625 could only gather a score 77236 in the Redmi Note 5. The only other Xiaomi device gathering an impressive score before this was the Snapdragon 650-powered Redmi Note 3 with an AnTuTu score of 90539. The Xiaomi Mi 5 flagship in 2016 managed a score of 128339 with its Snapdragon 820 chipset.
One major factor behind this impressive high score is the presence of Xiaomi’s optimised MIUI OS based on Android. Xiaomi spends a lot of time optimising the software on their smartphones, which is why the software is able to extract the best out of the hardware.
Other than that, the SD636 in itself is a beast. It utilises eight of Qualcomm’s custom Kryo 260 cores, four of which are loosely based on performance-oriented Cortex A72 cores and the other four based on power-efficient Cortex A53 cores. The A72 cores help the chipset to deliver on the performance when required. The SD636 shares this setup with the more powerful SD660, only in a lower state of tune and a slightly weaker Adreno 509 GPU.
The Redmi Note 5 Pro will go on sale from 22 February and will start from Rs 13,999 for 4GB/64GB variant and go up to Rs 16,999 for the 6GB/64GB variant. Keep a tab for our full review of the Redmi Note 5 Pro soon.
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