In an official announcement, ASUS officially teased the launch of ROG Phone 8 across the globe yesterday. According to the teaser poster, the camera module has been redesigned. It has already been confirmed that future gaming smartphones from the Taiwanese brand will be powered by the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. There will be three variants of the ROG Phone 8: standard, pro, and ultimate. Geekbench has now benchmarked both the ROG Phone 8 and 8 Pro.
It was previously revealed that the ASUS ROG Phone 8 and 8 Pro would be certified with the model numbers AI2401_D / AI2401_A and AI2401_A, respectively. ROG Phone 8 models AI2401_D and AI2401_A have now been spotted on the benchmarking database. The ROG Phone 8 Ultimate variant has previously appeared on Geekbench, and this is not the first time both devices have appeared.
Geekbench lists a motherboard codenamed pineapple with two cores clocked at 2.27GHz, five cores clocked at 2.96GHz, and a prime core ticking at 3.19GHz. ROG Phone AI2401_A has 16GB RAM onboard, while ROG Phone AI2401_D has 24GB RAM. ASUS ROG Phone 8 and 8 Pro could come in a variety of RAM and storage configurations. Android 14 will be the default operating system on the gaming phones.
In Geekbench’s single-core and multi-core tests, the ASUS ROG Phone 8 with model number AI2401_A scores 2,213 and 7,048 points, respectively. In contrast, the device with model number AI2401_D scores 2,271 and 7,360 points.