The main area of difference between the K20 and the K20 Pro is the chipset. The cheaper Redmi K20 ships with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730, the highest-end model in Qualcomm's mid-range series. Meanwhile, the K20 Pro ships with the flagship Snapdragon 855 chipset, putting it in the same league as far more expensive devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy S10 and the Sony Xperia 1, at least as far as the performance is concerned.
In our subjective testing, the K20 Pro exhibited excellent performance during everyday use. Applications open and close swiftly and scrolling performance was consistently smooth throughout. Demanding applications such as 3D games also faze no issues to the phone as the combination of a high-performance GPU and a relatively low-resolution display means it can crunch through them with ease.
In our synthetic benchmark tests, the K20 Pro keeps up with all the flagship Android smartphones on the market. The standard K20 does reasonably well here considering its more mid-range chipset but is left in the dust by the K20 Pro and its Snapdragon 855, especially in gaming tests.
With so much power at its disposal, we wish Xiaomi had put it to better use, such as by providing a higher resolution display or, ideally, a high refresh rate display, such as the 90Hz display on the OnePlus 7 Pro. However, at this price point, that's probably too much to ask for at this point in time.
The K20 Pro is available in two storage and memory tiers, with the base tier including 6GB of memory and 128GB storage and the more expensive model having 8GB memory and 256GB storage.
The Redmi K20 Pro is one of those rare Xiaomi phones that does not feature expandable storage, so perhaps it's not a bad idea to get the higher tier model, which also comes with more memory that will make the device more future-proof, if you intend to keep it around for a few years.
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