New performance tests highlight the impressive results of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip that will equip the Galaxy S23, compared to those found today on the Galaxy S22.
The new chip that will power the Galaxy S23 looks very promising. A leap forward in performance that should finally put all versions of the smartphone at the same level as the competition.
Impressive graphics performance
It was on the Geekbench benchmark that our colleagues from Notebookcheck spotted a certain “Adreno 740” which designates the integrated graphics part (iGPU) in the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip which the Galaxy S23 will benefit from. After five passages on Geekbench in the test using the Vulkan graphics API, the famous Adreno 740 shows an average score of 9844, against 6233 for the iGPU Adreno 730 of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 which equips, among others, the Galaxy S22 Ultra.
A significant gain that suggests that graphics performance of Qualcomm’s new SoC would be 50-60% better than its predecessor. After testing the RedMagic 8 Pro smartphone equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, we can confirm these impressive results.
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According to the 3DMark Wild Life graphics tests carried out by our 01Lab, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 of the RedMagic 8 Pro shows a score of 13584 points, against 9903 points for the iPhone 14 Pro Max and its A16 Bionic chip, or around 30% moreover. Qualcomm seems to have really gone all out on graphics performance this year, which should delight mobile gamers looking for performance, but who don’t necessarily want to buy a “gamer” smartphone.
And the European versions?
The other interesting comparison is to be made with the European version of the Galaxy S22 Ultra that we have in France. The latter embeds an Exynos 2200 chip that has been singled out for its stability and performance problems, which Samsung has tried to correct via software updates.
However, the iGPU that accompanies this European version, the Samsung Xclipse 920, is far from ridiculous in that it shows an average score of 8418 in the same test on Geekbench. A result higher than that of the Adreno 730 of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but lower than that of the 8 Gen 2 (still following?). Note however that we are only talking here about the GPU part and not the CPU, which is of paramount importance on the performance of a smartphone.
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What conclusions can we draw from this? The first is that Qualcomm has done a remarkable job of optimizing to offer much better graphics performance than its SoC from last year. The second is that Samsung learned from its mistakes by shedding its Exynos chips on the high end to trust Qualcomm.
Note, however, that Samsung and Qualcomm could offer a “special” version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for the Galaxy S23, notably with a higher clock frequency than on the standard version of the chip. See you next February 1, when the S23s will be presented, to have the end of the story.
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