Under the microscope: Analyzing the Xiaomi Mi 8 benchmark scores

We recently published our in-depth Xiaomi Mi 8 review, complete with a full set of tests: display, audio quality, performance, you know the drill. For the most part, it was business as usual, except for certain performance aspects. Even though the phone comes with the latest Snapdragon 845 chipset, in most synthetic benchmarks it only seemed to perform at the level of a Snapdragon 835 instead. A lot of you were confused by the performance numbers we published. Some even thought our review device or its software was to blame. So we went ahead and re-tested the handset under more...