There has been a lot of controversy around which chipset Samsung will use for the Galaxy S25 series. A report from South Korea claimed that the brand will exclusively go with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 for the lineup. Then a leak yesterday suggested that the company could also use the in-house developed Exynos 2500. While we await concrete information on the matter, today we know how the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra will perform if they use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC.
OnePlus’ upcoming flagship phone, the OnePlus 13, has been spotted on Geekbench with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC. It scored 3,236 points in the single-core test and 10,049 points in the multi-core test. In comparison, the Galaxy S24 Ultra with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy scores around 2,200 points in the former and 6,800 points in the latter. So, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has 45% faster single-core performance and 47% faster multi-core performance. Those are very impressive numbers.
Usually, Samsung’s S2X Ultra phones have better cooling capability than most other flagship Android phones, and as we've seen last time, Samsung uses a more powerful version of a Snapdragon chipset for its flagship devices. Both factors should make the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra perform even better than the OnePlus 13. Considering that, you should expect the upcoming lineup of devices to be around 50% faster than the current generation devices, at least in the CPU department.
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On a related note, Apple’s latest flagship smartphone, the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which features the company’s most powerful mobile chipset to date, the Apple A18 Pro, has made it to Geekbench. The phone has scored around 3,400 points in the single-core test and 8,500 points in the multi-core test. That means the A18 Pro is slower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which also means that it will be slower than the Galaxy S25 series smartphones. Now all we want to know is how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s GPU performs.
