The upcoming Honor flagship, identified by the model number WKL-AN20 and likely titled Magic 9 Pro Max, has appeared in the Geekbench database. The device is powered by the Qualcomm SM8975 chipset, referred to by industry insiders as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro.
The processor architecture features two high-performance cores clocked at 5.01 GHz, three cores at 4.03 GHz, and three efficiency cores at 3.74 GHz. Graphics processing is handled by the Adreno 850 unit. The smartphone is equipped with 16 GB of RAM and runs on Android 17 with the MagicOS interface.
In Geekbench 6 testing, the device achieved 3448 points in single-core performance and 9353 points in multi-core tasks. For comparison, the global version of the Magic 8 Pro, utilizing the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, recorded 3664 and approximately 7650 points respectively.
The SM8975 chip has previously surfaced in benchmarks for the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max, where it recorded 3582 points in single-core and 12 247 points in multi-core tests. However, these results were obtained using a different version of the benchmark, preventing a direct performance comparison.
