Samsung's due to launch its most slim flagship smartphone ever: The Galaxy S25 Edge, which we have seen from afar at two events since the beginning of the year, is expected to be just 5.84-inch thick.
For a device so thin, and a flagship one at that, some compromises have to be made. The biggest confirmed compromise is fewer cameras on the back, and many have wondered if Samsung will also opt for a lower-core version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset that powers the other Galaxy S25 models.
Earlier this year, a Galaxy S25 Edge benchmark revealed that Samsung will be taking no prisoners as far as power and performance are concerned and the Edge uses the same powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite processor as the other Galaxy S25 models. Today, we have more evidence of that thanks to another benchmark that has shown up online.
This time around, the benchmarked Galaxy S25 Edge was a Korean unit (model number SM-S937N), and the benchmark reports it as having an 8-core Snapdragon 8 Elite—the higher-clocked variant exclusive to Samsung devices—with single-core and multi-core performance scores similar to those of the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
It will be interesting to see how well the Galaxy S25 Edge will tame the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The regular Galaxy S25 can throttle quickly when pushed to the limit, and that's despite a bigger vapor chamber cooling system compared to the Galaxy S24.
The larger footprint of the S25 Edge should allow for better cooling than the smallest Galaxy S25 model, but there's no way to be sure until we can put the phone through its paces when it hits retail shelves.
