Asus ROG Phone 5 specs appear on Geekbench: Snapdragon 888 SoC, 16GB RAM, and more

The new Asus ROG Phone 5 Geekbench listing tells us little about the device's specifications. Given that it is a gaming smartphone, Asus will mostly emphasize on gaming-centric features such as an ultra-high-refresh rate screen and an overclocked Snapdragon 888 processor. We can chalk down the somewhat lacklustre Geekbench score to the device being a pre-production sample running unstable firmware. Previous iterations of the Asus ROG Phone have, on several occasions, outperformed similarly-specced alternatives, so we see no reason why the Asus ROG Phone 5 won't do the same. 

The Asus ROG Phone 3 featured an industry-leading 144Hz AMOLED screen. It stands to reason that Asus will want to improve it with the Asus ROG Phone 5 and push that refresh rate even higher. A previous report told us that the Asus ROG Phone 5 would come with a gargantuan 6,000mAh dual-cell battery with support for up to 65W fast charging. There are rumours that suggest that the Asus ROG Phone 5 will come with a configurable dot matrix display on its back, similar to what we've seen on some high-end ROG-branded laptops.