RedMagic’s next gaming phone is flashing serious Geekbench 6 benchmark muscle before it even launches. A Geekbench 6 listing believed to belong to the RedMagic 11S Pro+ has reportedly broken the 4,000-point barrier in single-core testing, a figure that would put it ahead of the usual Android pack and dangerously close to bragging rights territory.
The listing surfaced under the model number nubia NX809J on May 10, with one result said to have reached around 4,010 points before vanishing from the database. Several other entries still show single-core scores in the 3,900-plus range, while multi-core results reportedly climb beyond 12,000. For a gaming phone, that kind of peak output is useful marketing and a decent hint that RedMagic is squeezing every last drop out of Qualcomm’s latest silicon.
NX809J Geekbench scores and chip details
RedMagic has already said it is hand-picking the ”best of the best” Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chips for this model, and the benchmark result seems to fit that story. The Geekbench entry also shows a ”QTI SM8850 3628 MHz (8 cores)” configuration rather than the more familiar Qualcomm ARMv8 wording, which is the sort of detail benchmark nerds love and everyone else pretends to understand.
Cooling hardware is doing the heavy lifting
Clock speed is only half the story, and RedMagic knows it. The 11S Pro+ is expected to pair an active cooling fan with vapor chamber and liquid-cooling-style thermal systems, which is exactly the kind of overbuilt setup that gaming-phone buyers expect and battery-life purists roll their eyes at. If the phone can hold those scores under load, that will matter more than a one-off benchmark flex.
There is also talk of RedMagic’s custom Redcore R4 gaming chip and the latest CUBE Sky Gaming Engine. Teaser material claims the device can run more than 200 games at up to 2K resolution and 144fps while using frame interpolation and resolution upscaling at the same time. That is a very RedMagic sentence: wildly specific, very aggressive, and probably written to make rival phones feel underdressed.
RedMagic 11S Pro+ launch date in China
The full RedMagic 11S Pro+ series is scheduled to launch in China on May 18, alongside a new gaming tablet. If these benchmark leaks are accurate, RedMagic is trying to do what gaming-phone brands always try to do: turn raw performance into a product story before anyone gets to test the thermals in the real world.
That strategy usually works right up until reviewers start measuring sustained performance instead of peak scores. If RedMagic has genuinely found more headroom in Qualcomm’s chip, expect the rest of the Android crowd to start responding with bigger cooling systems, louder claims, and a lot more benchmark cherry-picking.