The Poco F5 series will be the latest and greatest smartphone series of the Xiaomi sub-brand. It will include the Poco F5 and Poco F5 Pro and the Pro model is reportedly not planned to launch in the Indian market. The company has launched the vanilla model in India, but no word yet on the Pro version. It’s expected to be a rebranded Redmi K60 series phone, but a recent Geekbench listing points to a controversial Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor under its hood.

The Poco F5 Pro is expected to be announced very soon, but before its launch, it appeared on Geekbench with model number 23013PC75G. The phone is powered by an octa-core processor with a motherboard codenamed Taro. We know that the Taro is an older Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor.

This contradicts previous reports that claimed the Poco F5 Pro will be a redesigned Redmi K60 with Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. The phone with 12 GB RAM and Adreno 730 graphics processor presented in Geekbench managed to score 1302 and 4080 points in single-core and multi-core tests.

Let’s get this out of the way: The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is pretty powerful, but it has a downside. It tends to heat up and drain the battery faster than you would like. The chip was developed by Samsung and Qualcomm using Samsung’s 4nm process, but apparently Qualcomm wasn’t happy with the way Samsung produced the chips. So much so that mid-year the company switched to TSMC and released a new, improved version called Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1.