Honor 700 Pro Geekbench Run Points to Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Ahead of November 13 Launch

Honor's next phone has shown up on Geekbench one day before its official unveiling, and the benchmark appears to settle the biggest open question about it. An Honor device with the model number FAP-AN00 ran Geekbench 6.7.1 and posted a single-core score of 2,862 and a multi-core score of 9,397. The listing identifies the chip by Qualcomm's SM8845 platform code, which corresponds to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 — the chip most recently rumoured to power the Honor 700 Pro. On that basis, the tested device is most likely the 700 Pro, although the listing itself does not name the phone.

The prototype that ran the benchmark carried 16GB of RAM and ran Android 17. Honor has already confirmed that the 700 Pro will be offered in three memory configurations — 12GB with 256GB of storage, 12GB with 512GB, and 16GB with 512GB — so the Geekbench unit was the top-tier version of the phone.

What the numbers do and do not prove

The scores are strong for a phone in the 700 series' expected price band, and they fit the profile of a handset built around a flagship-class chip rather than a cut-down one. But benchmark numbers deserve their usual caveat: scores vary with software versions, device temperature and test conditions, and a Geekbench result is not a guarantee of real-world performance. What the listing does firmly establish is the chip family and the memory and software combination of the tested unit — and those details now match the rumours that have followed the 700 Pro for weeks.

It also clears up an earlier point of confusion. Some earlier speculation had linked the 700 Pro to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Qualcomm's top-tier chip, but the SM8845 platform code in this listing is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, a step below the Elite. That is still a flagship-grade processor, and it is the same chip that tipster Digital Chat Station had already tipped for the Pro, with the standard Honor 700 expected to use the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4.

One day to go until the full picture

Honor has already revealed the design of all three members of the 700 family — the Honor 700, the Honor 700 Pro and the Honor 700S — but the phones are not fully official yet. The unveiling takes place in China on 13 November, and pre-orders have already opened in the country. Every model in the series carries a rear display built into the camera island, a feature Honor has been teasing with heart-rate and blood-oxygen readings shown on the small screen.

Past leaks have filled in the rest of the 700 Pro's expected specification: a 6.57-inch flat display with 1.5K resolution, a 200MP main camera, a 12MP ultrawide, a 50MP telephoto camera, and a battery of around 9,000mAh with support for 80W wired and 50W wireless charging. None of that is confirmed until Honor says so on stage, and the camera and battery figures in particular should be treated as leaks until the launch event.

Why it matters

If the Geekbench listing is the 700 Pro, Honor is putting a genuine flagship chip into a phone that sits below its Magic series flagships, continuing a pattern that has made the numbered series the value-performance pick in Honor's line-up. A Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, 16GB of RAM, a 200MP camera and a 9,000mAh-class battery would make the 700 Pro hard to ignore for buyers who want flagship speed without a flagship price. The launch on 13 November will confirm whether the leaks — and this benchmark — had it right.

Note: the photo above shows the Honor Magic9 Pro Max, a related Honor flagship. No verified photo of the unreleased Honor 700 Pro is available yet.

For the story so far, see our earlier reports on the Honor 700 series chipset and battery leak, the series design and rear display reveal, and the rear display's health-tracking teasers.

Sources

• GSMArena — Honor 700 Pro may have just run Geekbench confirming its chipset
• AndroGuru — Honor 700 Pro Appears on Geekbench With Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 16GB RAM
• JWEasyTech — Honor 700 Pro may have just run Geekbench confirming its chipset (full GSMArena text)
• GizmoChina — Upcoming phones launching in November 2026 (Honor 700 series chipset leak)