Qualcomm officially unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset earlier today. After the announcement, the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra popped up successful the online benchmark Geekbench again. More specifically, the European Galaxy S23 Ultra variant carrying exemplary fig SM-S918B showed up successful the benchmark browser, complementing the US variant that was spotted successful Geekbench past month. And conscionable similar the variants for the United States, the European exemplary is powered by the Qualcomm-made Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 alternatively than an Exynos chipset.
The online benchmark reveals that the European Galaxy S23 Ultra tested contiguous has the aforesaid motherboard designation, “kalama,” arsenic the US variant, which virtually confirms that the telephone volition deed the shelves successful Europe carrying the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Other details revealed by the benchmark see 8GB of RAM (although much RAM options are expected) and Android 13, which is beauteous overmuch a given, considering that Samsung is already rolling retired the update to its 2022 and older Galaxy S flagships.
Next year, it’s Snapdragon for all!
If you’re wondering, the Galaxy S23 Ultra scores 1,504 and 4,580 points successful single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. However, we don’t urge putting excessively overmuch value connected these scores. It should spell without saying that these results were achieved connected a pre-release Galaxy S23 Ultra, which means that the telephone could output antithetic — presumably higher — benchmark scores erstwhile it’s acceptable to deed the market.
In fact, the Galaxy S23 bid mightiness adjacent beryllium powered by a highly-optimized version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, perchance boasting amended performance. This diagnostic could beryllium unsocial to the 2023 Samsung flagships, which mightiness let the institution to truly springiness its contention a tally for its money.
Samsung mightiness unveil the Galaxy S23 successful aboriginal January oregon the archetypal week of February. Availability details are not publically known conscionable yet, but the flagship should deed the marketplace comparatively soon. Either way, if the Galaxy S23 bid is powered exclusively by Qualcomm, and it looks similar it is, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot what volition hap to Exynos. Samsung mightiness beryllium buying immoderate clip to make a caller and amended Exynos flagship chipset for aboriginal use, oregon it mightiness little its expectations and usage the Exynos enactment to proviso different smartphone makers with mobile SoCs for mid-range devices. Time volition tell.
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