Sony Xperia 5 V pops up on Geekbench with 16GB of RAM

Ro, 23 February 2023

Sony's Xperia 5 compact flagship seriesis about to get a new member, a new Geekbench listing reveals. It also reveals some of the specs of the upcoming phone.

Geekbench 5 listing

Perhaps it's no surprise that the device is running on the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, but the listing also confirms that Sony is preparing a 16GB RAM variant. It will match the iQOO 11 Pro and the OnePlus 11 among a number of other recently launched phones with 16GB of RAM.

Back to the benchmark listing itself, the Xperia 5 V shows similar performance to other Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered handsets we've tested, even if it's early in its development stage. We also get to see the phone's model number, which is XQ-DQ72 and will help us identify it in future leaks.

Source (in Chinese)

Reader comments

Anonymous
25 Jul 2023
sR1

Seems like no one is actually bothering to check, but the model number listed "XQ-DQ72" belongs to the Xperia 1 V.

G-Rock
07 May 2023
49n

Sony needs to work on getting the WiFi calling working on their devices here in the US. I love my Xperia 5 III but still run into issues with cellular from time to time and it's disappointing my Xperia XZ1 compact had it but the newer ones don&#...