Two accounts of what powers the upcoming Poco M8x 5G are in circulation, and they cannot both be right. GSMArena, reading Poco’s Flipkart teaser, reports that the India-bound M8x runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 5. Tipster Yogesh Brar says it is MediaTek’s Dimensity 6300 instead. For a phone tipped to land under ₹20,000, that is not a footnote — it decides the modem, the ISP, the GPU and, in practice, how long the phone keeps getting Android upgrades.
What Poco has actually confirmed about the M8x 5G
Less than the chipset chatter suggests. The Flipkart microsite went live on 14 August with the tagline “Power ka Naya Swag” and a design tease — a textured rear panel in a green finish, with a square camera module in the corner carrying a contrasting gold trim — and at that point The Tech Outlook noted the page revealed no specifications, no pricing and no launch date. Poco has still not announced a date. The one thing the microsite settles is the sales channel: the M8x 5G will be sold on Flipkart. For where Poco already sits in this bracket, the Poco M8 Power 5G launched in India at ₹24,999.
The tipped specifications, and why they are one person’s list
Everything below traces to Brar rather than to Poco, and should be read as a leak, not a spec sheet:
- Display: 6.9-inch LCD, HD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate
- Memory: 4GB RAM with 128GB of expandable storage
- Battery: 6,000mAh with 33W wired charging
- Software: HyperOS 3 out of the box
- Price: below ₹20,000 in India
The number worth pausing on is not the chipset at all — it is 4GB of RAM in 2026, on a phone shipping with HyperOS 3. Xiaomi’s skin is not light, and 4GB is the configuration most likely to feel slow within a year while the marketing points at the 6,000mAh battery and the 120Hz panel. An HD+ resolution on a 6.9-inch display is the other quiet compromise: stretched across that much glass, that works out to a low pixel density by 2026 standards, and text and images will look visibly coarser than on a sharper panel.
None of this is settled until Poco publishes a spec sheet. If you are shopping in this bracket, the sensible move is to wait for the official chipset confirmation rather than buy on a leaked list — and to check the RAM variant you are actually being sold, because a 4GB base model is the sort of configuration that anchors an attractive headline price without being the one most people should buy.
Sources: tipster Yogesh Brar, and Poco’s Flipkart microsite, via GSMArena and The Tech Outlook.
