Galaxy S25 Ultra vs S24 Ultra performance benchmark
As you can see from our Galaxy S25 Ultra vs S24 Ultra benchmark comparison below, Samsung’s highest-end 2024 phone will give way to its 2025 flagship.
S25 Ultra vs S24 Ultra benchmark | Image credit – Geekbench
A lot of way, in fact, as the S24 Ultra scores are 30% lower than the S25 processing power performance. This is most certainly thanks to the power of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, or Snapdragon Elite platform that Qualcomm announced on October 24 during its usual annual bash in Hawaii.
Carrying the model number SM-S938U, that particular Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra isn’t even firing up its 4.32 GHz prime core cylinder, but is rather content with the equally jaw-dropping 3.53 GHz of the midrange efficiency cores.
Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile chipset comes with a first-in-mobile Oryon CPU that is 45% faster yet with 44% less power draw, all the while it features the phone and tablet industry’s largest shared data cache. That is not all, though, as the Adreno graphics subsystem got a new sliced architecture with 40% faster performance and better efficiency.
Samsung needs all the speed it can get for its AI features, but Qualcomm has also been excellent with the power envelope of its late Snapdragon 8-series chipsets, keeping a lid on their battery consumption while churning out record scores, too. System-wide, the power savings should be about 27%, tips Qualcomm, while the benchmark here suggests that we can expect a similar boost in performance in real-life benchmarking.
For comparison, the Geekbench 6 single-core score on the iPhone 16 Pro Max returns 3331 points in our testing, which beats the leaked S25 Ultra single-core number, but only by a tad, while Samsung’s upcoming flagship destroys the iPhone in the multicore score.
There are still a few months left for Samsung to hone its 2025 Snapdragon for Galaxy order with Qualcomm, though, so the ever powerful iPhone Pro line may have finally met its performance match with Qualcomm’s latest chipset. The fly in all that performance ointment is that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform is simply too expensive for Samsung to use in anything else than a flagship like the S25 Ultra.
