OnePlus 16 posts a mammoth 5.38 million AnTuTu score with Qualcomm's new Extreme chip

An upcoming OnePlus flagship believed to be the OnePlus 16 has appeared in AnTuTu's database with a total score of 5,384,433, offering an early glimpse at the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in another retail-bound device. The PYB110 test unit combined Qualcomm's new flagship processor with 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage and Android 17. Its reported component scores included roughly 1.46 million for CPU performance and just over 2.01 million for the GPU.

OnePlus has separately confirmed that the OnePlus 16 will be among the first devices using Qualcomm's Extreme Gen 6 silicon. The obvious health warning is that AnTuTu V12 remains in public beta, while pre-release devices can run different firmware and thermal profiles from finished retail phones. Benchmark numbers should therefore be treated as interesting evidence rather than sacred scripture carved into a silicon wafer.

Even with those caveats, the result demonstrates the enormous performance ceiling manufacturers are chasing in the next Android flagship generation. For mobile gaming, the genuinely useful question comes later: how much of that 5.38-million-point enthusiasm remains after half an hour of continuous gameplay once heat, battery drain and thermal throttling have joined the party.