Snapdragon 800 version of the Xiaomi Mi3 goes through AnTuTu, scores over 37,000

There's no denying that the Xiaomi Mi3 has become the pinnacle of the Beijing-based company's success, and luckily for those of us who want to have a taste, the flagship should soon be en-route to the rest of the world.

Say what you want, but if we take the latest alleged AnTuTu benchmarks of the Mi3 into consideration, the device is unlikely to be found wanting in the performance department. The high-powered (WCDMA) version of Snapdragon 800 – the 2.3GHz MSM8974AB – manages squeeze out an impressive 37,273 score, while the CDMA model got a slightly lower 36,350 figure. Having come to know AnTuTu as the palm of our hands, we mostly attribute the difference to the benchmark's traditionally uneven scoring, meaning that this is likely nothing more than a fluctuation. Do keep in mind that these are not, strictly speaking, official, so it's possible that we have the wrong device, albeit unlikely.