Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate with Snapdragon 8 Generation 2 SoC made its debut in India in April this year. Now, Asus appears to be shifting its focus on the next device in the lineup — the ROG Phone 8 Ultimate. Although the launch date of this upcoming ROG series smartphone remains unknown, it seems to have appeared on the Geekbench benchmarking site. The alleged Asus Rog Phone 8 Ultimate is indicated to be powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 8 Generation 3 SoC, paired with 16GB RAM. The listing suggests the presence of Android 14 operating system on this handset.
A handset from Asus has been observed on the Geekbench website with the model number ASUS_AI2401_A. The listing, dated September 26, is believed to belong to the Asus ROG Phone 8 Ultimate, implying that it might come with Android 14 out of the box. The listing shows 2,213 points in single-core testing and 7,048 points in multi-core testing. According to the listing, the handset could feature 15.06GB of RAM, which can be approximated to 16GB on paper.
Furthermore, according to the listing, an octa-core chipset codenamed Pineapple with a base frequency of 2.26GHz will be the driving force behind this phone. It features a primary CPU core with a maximum clock speed of 3.19GHz, five cores with a clock speed of 2.96GHz, and two cores limited to 2.27GHz. These CPU speeds and codename can be associated with the unannounced Snapdragon 8 Generation 3 SoC. This upcoming chipset will succeed the Snapdragon 8 Generation 2 SoC from the previous year, and Qualcomm is expected to announce it at the Snapdragon Summit 2023 event in October.
There is not much more information currently available about the Asus ROG Phone 8 Ultimate. However, it is expected to bring improvements over its predecessor, the ROG Phone 7 Ultimate. The latter is priced at Rs. 99,999 in India for the model with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage.
Asus’s ROG Phone 7 Ultimate features a 6.78-inch full-HD+ (1,080×2,488 pixels) AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 165Hz and a touch sampling rate of 720Hz. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Generation 2 SoC, accompanied by Adreno 740 GPU and up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 512GB of UFS4.0 internal storage. It sports a triple rear camera setup with a 50-megapixel main camera and carries a 32-megapixel front camera. The device is backed by a 6,000mAh battery with support for 65W wired fast charging.
