The Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ use two different SoCs. The former is limited to the Samsung Exynos 2400 and the latter uses the aforementioned chip in its international version and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the US and Canada version. The Galaxy S24 Ultra only has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This means that only versions with a Samsung chip will be available in Spain, which might seem like bad news, but surprisingly This time it’s quite the opposite.

It is true that the reputation of Exynos SoC is not good. We have the closest example in Exynos 2200, a chip that raised a lot of expectations, but ended up being a big disappointment, as its performance at both the CPU and GPU levels was lower than its counterpart, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and it also suffered significant losses. thermal problems that caused thermal throttling.

With this in mind, it was easy to understand the prejudice that arose around the Exynos 2400 SoC, but according to the first performance tests that have been published, this chip is much more polished than the previous generation and is actually better able to withstand the type that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. In load test Solar Bay Samsung chip maintained 64.6% of its maximum power, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 She dropped to 48.3% of her maximum power.

This was clearly evident in the scores each chip received in the said test. The Exynos 2400 has reached its maximum 8,905 points and a minimum of 5,755 points, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC scored a maximum of 8,249 points and a minimum of 3,984 points. The difference between them is small at maximum values ​​but large at minimum values.

This is both interesting and curious because the Galaxy S24 Ultra used in this test along with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a vapor chamber based cooling system that It is 90% larger than the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Returning to the Samsung Exynos 2400, the results obtained by this chip are general very positiveso much so that it reached a performance level similar to the Apple A17 Pro SoC.

If you’re wondering how Samsung could make such a big improvement with this new silent chip, I won’t leave you wondering. It seems that the changes introduced at the architectural level and the use of technology “Wafer fan packaging” (FOWLP), which improves heat resistance, were the key to the Exynos 2400 being able to place itself at such a good level.

Solar Bay stress test

Exynos 2400 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy

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