Five million points used to be the benchmark crowd’s holy grail. The OnePlus 16 just blew past that like it wasn’t even trying. According to Gizmochina, the upcoming flagship posted a total AnTuTu V12 score of 5,384,433, which puts it at the very top of the current benchmark database. That’s not a marginal improvement over last year’s numbers. That’s a different category entirely.
The breakdown tells the real story. The OnePlus 16 hit a CPU score of 1,458,283, a GPU score of 2,010,584, a memory score of 766,362, and a UX score of 1,149,204. The GPU number is the one that stands out most. Over two million points in graphics alone signals that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, the chip powering this phone, has made a serious leap in visual processing. For mobile gaming and video, that has real implications.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, also listed as the SM8975, had already shown up in Geekbench results from other phones like the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max, Honor Magic 9 Pro Max, and iQOO 16. But this AnTuTu result is the most complete picture we’ve gotten of what the chip can do under a heavier, more demanding test. Qualcomm apparently built this thing to be a statement.
So why does this matter beyond benchmark bragging rights? Because benchmark scores, even with all their limitations, do reflect real-world headroom. A phone scoring this high will handle anything you throw at it today and still feel fast two or three years from now. For anyone who keeps a phone longer than a year, that ceiling matters. And for the Android flagship space overall, a score like this resets expectations for what a 2026 top-tier phone should deliver.
The OnePlus 16 is also expected to come with a significant camera upgrade, which is worth paying attention to given that the OnePlus 15’s cameras drew some fair criticism. The rumored setup includes:
- 200-megapixel primary camera with a 1/1.4-inch sensor
- 50-megapixel ultrawide camera
- 50-megapixel periscope telephoto camera
That primary sensor configuration, if accurate, would put OnePlus in direct competition with the best camera phones on the market. A 1/1.4-inch sensor is large, and pairing it with 200 megapixels suggests OnePlus wants flexibility for both detail shots and cropped zoom. Still, specs on paper and actual image quality are two very different things. We’ll need to see real-world samples before getting excited about the cameras.
OnePlus is expected to launch the phone in China in October. But here’s the catch: there are early reports suggesting the OnePlus 16 may not get a global release. No confirmation either way yet, and OnePlus hasn’t said anything official. That would be a frustrating outcome if true, especially for fans outside China who have been following the OnePlus flagship line closely. It’s worth keeping an eye on as the launch date approaches.
For now, that AnTuTu score is the headline. The OnePlus 16 looks like a performance monster on paper. Whether the rest of the package, cameras, battery, software, and actual availability, delivers to match is the question October will answer.