There have been plenty of headlines this month about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S25 series. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra has made an appearance on Geekbench once again, revealing what its performance will be like.
Samsung uses customized “Snapdragon for Galaxy” chips in its flagship S-series phones, so the chip appearing with S25 Ultra is likely a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 “for Galaxy” variant.
The Galaxy S25 Ultra scored 3,096 points in single-core tests and 9,080 points in multi-core tests on Geekbench. We have seen Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 perform better in OnePlus 13 where it scored 3,296 and 10,049 in single and multi-core tests, respectively.
To improve performance, it is important to keep in mind that these are likely early benchmarks.
Samsung and Qualcomm have plenty of time before the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s expected launch in early 2025 to refine the chip’s performance.
Geekbench also shows some differences between Samsung and OnePlus chips. In the Samsung version, the cores are slightly downclocked.
With the OnePlus 13, the performance cores run at 4.32 GHz, while the performance cores run at 4.19 GHz. The efficiency cores are clocked at 2.90 GHz, lower than the 3.53 GHz found in the OnePlus.
Perhaps this is why the S25 Ultra scored lower in Geekbench than the OnePlus 13. Fortunately, the benchmark’s code reveals that the chip maintained its boost clock without throttling.
