94 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 67BUYING GUIDE
In Mi 9 Xiaomi has specified one of those top-tier
chips, the Snapdragon 855, but it has done so with the
X24- rather than X50 modem which means this phone
isn’t capable of supporting 5G. (And neither are most
of the world’s phone networks, so that’s a moot point.)
This Snapdragon chip is clocked at 2.84GHz
and uses the Kryo 485 core. It’s integrated with the
Adreno 640 GPU and paired with 6GB of RAM and 64-
or 128GB of non-expandable storage.
The Mi 9 is capable of some mind-blowing
performance, if falling below those phones with a
greater allocation of memory (such as the China-only
Mi 9 Explorer, which has 12GB).
We ran it through our usual benchmarks and
have charted its performance in comparison withJetStream