iQOO 13 — the upcoming flagship smartphone from the Vivo subsidiary — could be launched in India by the end of the year, according to details shared by a tipster. It is expected to be launched in China next month, as one of the first phones equipped with Qualcomm’s next-generation chipset. The iQOO 13 has also appeared on benchmarking website Geekbench with the rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC expected to be unveiled later this month, giving us an idea of what to expect from the upcoming phone.
iQOO 13 may launch in India in December
Smartprix report citing tipster Yogesh Brar, claims that the iQOO 13 will launch in India on December 5. The smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset, which is expected to be unveiled by the chipmaker later this month as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 (or Snapdragon 8 Elite), according to the publication.
It’s worth noting that the Vivo sub-brand has yet to announce a release date for the iQOO 13 in China or global markets. Last year, the company launched the iQOO 12 in China in November, while the phone reached India a month later.
iQOO 13 appears on Geekbench with Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset
A listing for a smartphone with model number V2408A on Geekbench gives an insight into the performance of the upcoming iQOO 13. The Geekbench listing reveals that the phone will be equipped with an octa-core processor with two performance cores clocked at 4.32 GHz and six efficient cores clocked at 3.53 GHz.
Alleged listings for iQOO 13 and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Photo credit: Screenshot/ Geekbench
Geekench’s listing for the alleged iQOO 13 states that the device has 14.76GB of RAM, indicating that it will come in a 16GB storage variant. It is also shown to run on Android 15 and is likely to include Vivo’s FuntouchOS 15 skin.
The benchmark result reveals that the phone scored 3,142 points in the single-core test and 10,052 points in the multi-core test. These results are much higher than those of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra it is reported scored 3069 points and 9080 points in the single-core and multi-core tests, respectively, with the “overclocked” Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset.
On Geekbeench, latest benchmark results for iPhone 16 Pro Max show that the phone scored 3,562 points in a single-core test, which is higher than what the alleged iQOO 13 managed to achieve. However, Apple’s flagship smartphone scored 8,814 points in the multi-core test, which is significantly lower than iQOO’s upcoming smartphone.
These benchmark results suggest that the iQOO 13 could be one of the most capable smartphones to be released in the coming months. We can expect to learn more about the phone’s performance and how it stacks up against its competitors once more smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 chipsets are released.
