We’re in Sunny Singapore for the launch of the new POCO F7 series and we knew that there’s a good chance we wouldn’t have enough time to do a full review of the POCO F7 Ultra. However, we still wanted to test it out as much as we can and this is the one part I believe many people are curious about the most; how well does it perform? In short, it’s great but we’re going to need some data to make the whole picture clear. Without further ado, let’s dive into our benchmark results.
POCO F7 Ultra Benchmarks
Antutu v10
Starting off with Antutu v10, the POCO F7 Ultra had a stellar showing as it took the 2nd runner up spot in our list of benchmarked devices, with it being virtuallly equal to the vivo X200 Pro and its Dimensity 9400 chip at a much more affordable price. Technically if you discount the fact that the top spot is in overclocked mode and focus only on the ones with no boosts whatsoever, then this one actually bagged the runner up spot. It’s starting off with a bang for POCO.
Geekbench 6
Then on Geekbench 6, the POCO F7 Ultra isn’t as strong however as it seems to be just a little bit above last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. In fact, all the other Snapdragon 8 Eliter devices are noticeably stronger in this benchmark for both single and multi core portions of the test. It didn’t feel particularly hot either after multiple runs so I suspect that the device may have intentionally limited its performance in favor of efficiency.
3DMark
Moving on to 3DMark, the POCO F7 Ultra had a pretty decent showing but it’s once again beaten by most of the other Snapdragon 8 Elite devices that we’ve tested thus far. Oddly enough, it did manage to beat the ROG Phone 9 running in standard mode across all three tests, in which the latter device not scoring higher was already weird in and of itself, but at least it wasn’t a bad score and the difference with the other devices isn’t particularly huge.
The biggest surprise for me is that the POCO F7 Ultra actually ran the coolest among all the Snapdragon 8 Elite devices we’ve tested thus far, with a stability rating of 65.6%. However, the runner up device isn’t far off with the HONOR Magic7 Pro coming in at 64%. Furthermore, 65.6% still means that thermal throttling occurs often enough, but we can’t blame Xiaomi for this as the chip is just insanely hot. In case you were wondering, it definitely felt very hot to the touch right after we were done stress testing it, almost painfully so even, but a decent quality protective case can help with that.
GPUScore Sacred Path
Just to get a clearer picture of its 3D graphical performance, we also had GPUScore Sacred Path to give us more insight, and the POCO F7 Ultra performed pretty much on par with the other Snapdragon 8 Elite devices. It may seem far weaker than the Galaxy S25 Ultra that’s running the same chip but keep in mind that they used a custom tuned “For Galaxy” binned chip, hence the difference in score in comparison with the others. In truth, this is actually a pretty strong device, especially when you put price into consideration.
PCMark
Lastly on PCMark, I thought the POCO F7 Ultra could have crossed the 20,000 mark but it came just a little bit short of it. Granted, it’s not the only Snapdragon 8 Elite device to not be able to do so but hey, it’s close enough. Once again, the top spot is that much higher because of the overclocked X-Mode so it’s a bit unfair to compare directly. As a daily driver, it certainly is more than capable of handling your day-to-day tasks with ease.
As much as I’d like to shed some light on the POCO F7 Ultra’s battery life, especially since we’re getting the downgraded 5,300mAh capacity instead of the chonky 6,000mAh like in certain regions, we couldn’t do it as we had a limited time with the device. We need to run the endurance test a few times to ensure accuracy, and doing so would have taken away all the time we had to play around with the device so unfortunately, we can’t give you objective data on it right now. What I can say from personal use is that I managed to go a day and a half, sometimes two days, per full charge but that’s obviously dependent on how heavy of a user you are. If you frequently game on it, expect to charge it on the daily.
And that’s the end of our POCO F7 Ultra benchmarks. Personally, I find it interesting that it had the best thermal performance out of all the Snapdragon 8 Elite devices but because it’s a particularly hot chip, it’s hard to really keep it cooled down. One can be nitpicky and scrutinize how other devices running the same chip can perform better but it’s hard to argue when you pay significantly less for this one. If all you need is pure power and good battery life (along with 120W of superbly fast charging speeds), it’s really hard to look elsewhere. It’s only when you need to have other things like a really good camera that you’d consider other devices, but that will come with a higher price tag.
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