Samsung is expected to adopt a similar strategy for its Galaxy S24 series as it did with the Galaxy S23, where it used a slightly overclocked version of Qualcomm’s flagship chipset. For 2024, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy is said to not only offer a higher-clocked GPU, but its Cortex-X4 core is running at an increased frequency too. Unfortunately, these overclocks do not seem to do much when boosting single-core and multi-core performance.

Despite the Cortex-X4’s increased frequency, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy performs slower than the regular variant

The Galaxy S24 Ultra was seemingly benchmarked on Geekbench 6 with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that sports a higher clock speed than what Qualcomm specified in its official announcement of the SoC. Where the regular version’s Cortex-X4 operates at 3.30GHz, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy is running the same core at 3.40GHz. Sadly, that is about all the difference we will see between the two variants, as the remaining Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 cores are running at the exact same clock speeds.

Even the Adreno 750 GPU, which is running at a 900MHz default frequency on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s regular version, gets a minor 1,000MHz boost for all Galaxy S24 models. Now, the real question is how these overclock translate into real-world performance gains. The answer is a disappointing one because, as far as we can tell, the Galaxy S24 Ultra outfitted with the ‘upgraded’ Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 actually performs worse than the regular version powering the Xiaomi 14’s innards.

Both the single-core and multi-core results obtained by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy above are rather poor, so it can either mean that there is still further testing that needs to be done before we see improvements in the score or this particular chipset is reaching thermal throttling territory. Then again, Geekbench 6 is not intended for sustained workloads or to be used as a stress-testing tool, so it is possible that additional tweaking is required before we see increased single-core and multi-core scores.

News Source: Geekbench 6