If you talk benchmarking tools specifically, AnTuTu is one of the all-time best, and they even have this tradition where they push out at least two charts of the best-tested phones each month. One of those charts is obviously for flagships, and the other is about semi-flagships. And believe it when we say that the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus ended up in the top 10.
Of course, Red Magic 9S Pro+ is at the top among the flagships, because of its 24GB of RAM and the advantage of an overclocked SD 8 Gen 3 that puts it north of 2.1 million points. But in the upper-mid-rangers, there’s OnePlus Ace V3 that took the first rank.
Ace V3 is only a 12GB of RAM Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 phone, and it topped at around 1.4 million score. That’s well worth the first place. At the bottom of this chart, you can even see the Redmi Note 14 Pro+, this may seem discouraging, but in the old days, it wasn’t even imaginable.
Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 aboard that Xiaomi's latest flagship handset is only good for about 774,120 points on AnTuTu, not to say that these are bad scores. Let’s not forget that this is the lowest-rated chip of all other 7 Gen 3 variants and it’s very close to Snapdragon 6 Gen 3’s level.
It’s miraculous that Redmi Note 14 Pro+ even ended up in the Top 10. But Redmi does build phones that easily yield better scores to sit in upper ranks like the Note 12T Pro or Redmi K70E. We should tell you that these are only September rankings, and Note 14 Pro+ may not even be on the list by the end of October.