Samsung should consider upgrading its chipsets moving forward as a recent benchmarking suggests the leading Android smartphone maker has been over taken by an upstart Chinese company on the smartphone performance race.

According to GSM Arena, the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 has tallied an eye-whopping 73,075 benchmark points.

To put that in perspective, the Galaxy S6 and the S6 edge are the official leaders of the benchmark with scores hovering around the 70k mark. Both devices are powered by the Exynos-7420 chipset.

The AnTuTu benchmark results of the Mi 5 is mostly attributed to the deca-core CPU found on the MediaTek Helio X20 SoC, which Xiaomi is considering to be the default processor of the Mi 5.

However, their choice for the Mi 5's eventual SoC hasn't been cast in stone just yet.

"If Xiaomi Mi5 is released in 2016, then there is a high chance that the smartphone is going to be running Snapdragon 820. If the handset ends up getting released this year, then there is a very high probability that the device will be sporting Helio X20, which runs a 10 core processor," a Xiaomi-based online news portal reported.

The Chinese electronic company is favoring the latter, though, as the Helio X20 is currently the only SoC that can surpass the speed of the latest Samsung offerings.

As for the Mi 5's rumored specs, another report from the same site has the information. The upcoming device will allegedly feature the following:

  • 5.3-inch QHD (1440x2560) screen with 554ppi pixel density
  • 16GB or 64GB internal storage variants, no support for expandable storage
  • 16-megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash
  • 3030mAh battery.
  • fingerprint sensor (found on its rear panel)
  • USB Type-C port support

Whichever SoC Xiaomi chooses to employ for the Mi 5, the handset will have 4GB of RAM and an Adreno 530 GPU. The forthcoming handset will be powered by Xiaomi's very own MIUI 7.

As previously reported, the new Android 5.1.1 Lollipop-based OS will have these cool perks:

  • "MI Roaming" app which functions as a virtual SIM card when users are out of the country
  • "Kids Mode" which gives parents the control to limit what their children could access on the device
  • Video option instead of pictures of contacts on the user's phonebook

Xiaomi's new OS has four main themes though subsequent specific themes could be downloaded through the company's virtual store. It includes the pink "Goddess" mode for females. Users can also customize wallpaper-to-screensaver combinations to suit their preferences.

The Xiaomi Mi5 is expected to hit the market in the last quarter of 2015.