Xiaomi 12 Pro vs OnePlus 13

62 out of 100
Xiaomi 12 Pro
VS
87 out of 100
OnePlus 13

Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.73-inch Xiaomi 12 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) that was released on December 28, 2021, against the OnePlus 13, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and came out 2 years and 10 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.

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Key differences

An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Xiaomi 12 Pro
  • Slow-motion recording at 1920FPS
  • Supports higher wattage charging (120W versus 100W)
  • Supports Dolby Atmos sound technology
Reasons to consider the OnePlus 13
  • Waterproof body (IP69 classification)
  • 2.3x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (3145K versus 1349K)
  • Shows 85% longer battery life (31:17 vs 16:53 hours)
  • Comes with 1400 mAh larger battery capacity: 6000 vs 4600 mAh
  • Has 50% more RAM: 12GB versus 8GB
  • The rear camera has a 3x optical zoom
  • Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
  • Compatible with Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
  • Delivers 14% higher peak brightness (1194 against 1049 nits)
  • More recent OS version: Android 16 versus 15
  • The phone is 2 years and 10 months newer
  • The front-facing camera can record video at 4K
  • Ready for eSIM technology

Review

Evaluation of Xiaomi 12 Pro and OnePlus 13 crucial features
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)

Should I update?
No 91% Yes
Yes, this is a clear and meaningful upgrade.
Updating from Xiaomi 12 Pro to OnePlus 13 is a clear step forward, and the improvements should be easy to notice.
Main improvements: gaming, performance, and battery life.

Tests and specifications

Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Phone:
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Display

Type AMOLED AMOLED
Size 6.73 inches 6.82 inches
Resolution 1440 x 3200 pixels 1440 x 3168 pixels
Aspect ratio 20:9 20:9
PPI 521 ppi 510 ppi
Refresh rate 120 Hz 120 Hz
Adaptive refresh rate Yes (60-120 Hz) Yes (1-120 Hz)
Max rated brightness 970 nits 1600 nits
Max rated brightness in HDR 1500 nits 4500 nits
HDR support Yes, Dolby Vision Yes, Dolby Vision
Touch sampling rate 480 Hz -
Screen protection Gorilla Glass Victus Ceramic Guard
Screen-to-body ratio 89.5% 90.1%
Display features - DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
- DCI-P3
- Always-On Display
- DC Dimming
Display tests
RGB color space 99.8% 99.6%
PWM 367 Hz 120 Hz
Response time 5 ms 2 ms
Contrast ∞ Infinity ∞ Infinity
Peak brightness test (auto)
1049 nits
OnePlus 13 +14%
1194 nits
Sources: NotebookCheck [3], [4]

Design and build

Height 163.6 mm (6.44 inches) 162.9 mm (6.41 inches)
Width 74.6 mm (2.94 inches) 76.5 mm (3.01 inches)
Thickness 8.66 mm (0.34 inches) 8.5 mm (0.33 inches)
Weight 204 g (7.2 oz) 213 g (7.51 oz)
Waterproof No IP69
Advanced cooling Vapor chamber Vapor chamber
Rear material Glass Glass
Frame material Metal Metal
Colors Black, Blue, Green, Pink White, Black, Blue
Fingerprint scanner Yes, in-display Yes, in-display
Repairability - Good (3.71/5)
Drop resistance - Average (D) · 45 drops
Screen-to-body ratio
89.5%
90.1%

Performance

Chipset specifications of Xiaomi 12 Pro and OnePlus 13
SoC
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
Max clock 3000 MHz 4320 MHz
CPU cores 8 (1 + 3 + 4) 8 (2 + 6)
Architecture - 4 cores at 1.8 GHz: Cortex-A510
- 3 cores at 2.5 GHz: Cortex-A710
- 1 core at 3 GHz: Cortex-X2
- 6 cores at 3.53 GHz: Oryon (Phoenix M)
- 2 cores at 4.32 GHz: Oryon (Phoenix L)
L3 cache 6 MB 8 MB
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Lithography process 4 nanometers 3 nanometers
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon
GPU
Graphics Adreno 730 Adreno 830
GPU shading units 1024 1536
GPU clock 818 MHz 1100 MHz
FLOPS ~1675.3 GFLOPS ~3379.2 GFLOPS

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparison of Xiaomi 12 Pro and OnePlus 13
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
968
OnePlus 13 +199%
2899
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
3605
OnePlus 13 +148%
8945
Compute Score (GPU)
3743
OnePlus 13 +568%
24988
Compute Score (GPU) 3743 24988
Single-core score 968 2899
Multi-core score 3605 8945
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
1349808
OnePlus 13 +133%
3145582
CPU 500024 946374
GPU 223043 1154478
Memory 243998 370624
UX 382743 674106
Total score 1349808 3145582
Samples [6 tests] [33 tests]
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
n/a
2455
Stability - 74%
Graphics test - 18 FPS
Graphics score - 2455
3DMark Solar Bay
n/a
11360
Graphics test - 43 FPS
Section 1 - 49 FPS
Section 2 - 44 FPS
Section 3 - 37 FPS
Graphics score - 11360
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
2479
OnePlus 13 +152%
6241
Stability 88% 84%
Graphics test 14 FPS 37 FPS
Graphics score 2479 6241
Sources: 3DMark [5], [6]
PCMark 3.0
10354
OnePlus 13 +52%
15714
Web score 8304 14928
Video editing 6949 6982
Photo editing 25400 28408
Data manipulation 9541 14424
Writing score 13100 22334

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Xiaomi 12 Pro
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-27 (Tema)CPU Throttle86%
📘 2026-06-07 (Tema)AnTuTu 111603387
📘 2026-04-15 (Max)AnTuTu 111349808
📘 2026-04-03 (12 pro)AnTuTu 111555919
📘 2026-03-29 (thxthelow)AnTuTu 111297778
OnePlus 13
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-10-13 (Phúc Lợi)AnTuTu 123331523
📘 2026-10-09 (Prigogin)AnTuTu 123195605
📘 2026-09-25 (InDominusRex)AnTuTu 123200877
📘 2026-09-22 (Keremss)Geekbench 6 CPU3032 / 9438
📘 2026-08-28 -> pavlikk69AnTuTu 113139994

Memory

RAM
RAM size 8 GB 12 GB
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory clock 3200 MHz 5300 MHz
Channels 2 4
Storage
Storage size 128 GB 256 GB
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
Memory card No No

Software

Operating system Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 15) Android 15 (Can be upgraded to Android 16)
ROM HyperOS 3 OxygenOS 16
OS size 26.5 GB 54 GB
OS updates - 4 years
Security updates - 6 years

Battery

Capacity 4600 mAh 6000 mAh
Max charge power 120 W 100 W
Battery type Li-Po Silicon-Carbon (Si/C)
Replaceable No No
Wireless charging Yes (50 W) Yes (50 W)
Reverse charging Yes, (wireless) Yes, (wireless)
Bypass charging - Yes
Fast charging Yes (50% in 8 min) Yes (55% in 15 min)
Full charging time 0:21 hr 0:35 hr
Battery cycles - 1000 cycles
Battery life tests
Web browsing 06:40 hr 13:42 hr
Watching video 10:08 hr 23:46 hr
Gaming 04:44 hr 06:05 hr
Standby 81 hr 120 hr
General battery life
16:53 hr
OnePlus 13 +85%
31:17 hr

Main camera

Matrix 50 megapixels 50 megapixels
Image resolution 8700 x 5800 8192 x 6144
Zoom Optical, 2x Optical, 3x
Flash Dual LED Dual LED
Stabilization Optical Optical
8K video recording Up to 24FPS Up to 30FPS
4K video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
1080p video recording Up to 60FPS Up to 60FPS
Slow motion 1920 FPS (720p) 240 FPS (1080p)
Angle of widest lens 115° 120°
Lenses 1) Standard: 50 MP
2) Telephoto: 50 MP
3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
1) Standard: 50 MP
2) Telephoto: 50 MP
3) Ultrawide: 50 MP
Camera features - Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- RAW support
- Bokeh mode
- Pro mode
- RAW support
Standard lens
Image resolution 50 MP 50 MP
Aperture f/1.9 f/1.6
Focal length 24 mm 23 mm
Sensor Sony IMX707 Sony LYTIA-808
Sensor size 1/1.28" (≈ 0.78 inch) 1/1.4" (≈ 0.71 inch)
Pixel size 1.22 micron 1.12 micron
Autofocus Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) Phase autofocus
Stabilization Optical Optical
Telephoto lens
Image resolution 50 MP 50 MP
Aperture f/1.9 f/2.6
Focal length 48 mm 73 mm
Sensor Samsung JN1 Sony LYT-600
Sensor size 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) 1/1.95" (≈ 0.51 inch)
Pixel size 0.64 micron 0.8 micron
Stabilization Digital Optical
Ultra-wide lens
Image resolution 50 MP 50 MP
Aperture f/2.2 f/2.0
Focal length 14 mm 15 mm
Sensor Samsung JN1 Samsung S5KJN5
Sensor size 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) 1/2.75" (≈ 0.36 inch)
Pixel size 0.64 micron 0.64 micron
Stabilization Digital Digital

DxOMark main camera tests

Photo quality
136
Video quality
125
Generic main camera score
129
Bokeh 70 -
Preview 70 -
Zoom 102 -
Samples Photo samples of Xiaomi 12 Pro from DxOMark -

Selfie camera

Megapixels 32 megapixels 32 megapixels
Image resolution 6528 x 4896 6560 x 4928
Aperture f/2.5 f/2.4
Focal length 26 mm 21 mm
Sensor OmniVision OV32b40 Sony IMX615
Sensor size 1/3.14" (≈ 0.32 inch) 1/2.74" (≈ 0.36 inch)
Pixel size 0.7 micron 0.8 micron
Autofocus No No
Stabilization Digital Digital
Video resolution 1080p (Full HD) at 60 FPS 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS
Depth sensor (TOF 3D) No No

Connectivity

Wi-Fi standard Wi-Fi 6E (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
Wi-Fi features - Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
- Dual Band
- Wi-Fi MiMO
- Wi-Fi Direct
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Wi-Fi Display
Bluetooth version 5.2 5.4
Bluetooth features LE LE
USB type USB Type-C USB Type-C
USB version 2 3.2
USB features - Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
- Charging
- USB-Storage mode
- OTG
DisplayPort - Yes
GPS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
NFC* Yes Yes
Infrared port Yes Yes
Network
Number of SIM* 2 2
Type of SIM card Nano Nano
Multi SIM mode Standby Standby
eSIM support* No Yes
Hybrid slot No No
LTE Cat* 20 -
5G support Yes Yes

Sound

Speakers Stereo Stereo
Headphone audio jack No No
FM radio No No
Dolby Atmos Yes No
Speakers test
Max loudness
84.2 dB
91.8 dB

Other

Category Flagship Flagship
Announced December 2021 October 2024
Release date December 2021 January 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $899
Successor - Xiaomi 15 Pro - OnePlus 15
Sensors - Barometer
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
- Hall-effect sensor
- Barometer
- Proximity sensor
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Fingerprint
Bundled charger Yes, 120 W Yes, 100 W
Further details
Notes on OnePlus 13:
    - The "Arctic Dawn" and "Black Eclipse" models are 8.5 mm thick and weigh 213g, while "Midnight Ocean" is 8.9 mm and 210g.
    - The Chinese and Indian versions do not support eSIM.
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.

Conclusion

After analyzing all the data, we think that the OnePlus 13 is definitely a better buy.

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