As the anticipation for this month’s Galaxy Unpacked event rises, critical decisions around the Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones have been revealed.
Following the launch of Samsung’s Exynos 2400 chipset, the South Korean company will offer the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ with its own Exynos chipset or Qualcomm’s customised “Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 For Samsung.”
This decision has put the community on edge. This mixed chipset approach—with the chipset received completely dependent on where you purchase your new smartphone—is one that Samsung has traditionally used. used on numerous Galaxy S ranges. In those cases, the Snapdragon-equipped handset offered more performance and endurance over the similarly specced Exynos-equipped handsets.
Early benchmarks revealed during testing of the various S24 and S24+ handsets showed the Exynos handsets lagging behind the Snapdragon handsets. This was in late October, leaving more than two months for Samsung to optimise the handsets and find more performance in silicon.
Benchmarks from Geekbench—presumably on final hardware and release software—show an increase of 6.1 per cent for single-core operations and 5.8 per cent for multi-core on the Galaxy S24+. The Geekbench number also shows a 2.8 per cent and 4.4 per cent improvement since late October for the Snapdragon handsets.
Samsung’s Exynos chipset is getting closer to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, but the latter remains the more powerful choice. It looks like Samsung’s decision to run two different variants will remain a point of contention for those in the community wanting the best performance possible from their new flagship phone.
The Galaxy S24 family, including the S24 Ultra and S-Pen, are expected to launch at the upcoming “Galaxy Unpacked” event on January 17th.
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