Just wanna post to share my joy. The 3 have the Snapdragon 8 elite globally. Maybe Samsung couldn’t make an Exynos that was on par with the 8 elite. Props to Snapdragon. Fast and efficient. Chip improvements like this don’t oft come.
If the other brands can’t make a better phone, the S25 ultra will probably be the best big phone of 2025.
I find the joy misplaced. Even with an exynos the s24 were still the better phones sold last year. Exynos criticism was valid but over a very narrow band of extreme use cases and strategic discussion. For 99% of phone users, they wouldn’t have even noticed anything different. It was mostly the enthusiasts buying, comparing and testing several phones a year and poring over benchmark tests and thermometers. The regular person who buys and uses a single phone for 3+ years was not hurt in the slightest.
I look at Geekbench multicore. The con is it’s synthetic.
Do you have real-world data that show that the Exynos S24 is on par with the 8 gen 3 S24?
I don’t have the links since I’m on mobile right now. I remember all the benchmarks no further than 3% less performance at worst and some subjective reports that it felt warmer in the hand under load. It was objectively slightly worse than the snapdragon version with dips of two or three frames due to lack of game’s optimization. But other than that it was not something perceptible. It’s my opinion that the negativity towards it was an enthusiast’s and reviewer’s perception, everyday users never complained about anything significant or major being wrong with the chip.
If I’ll buy a flagship, that 3% will matter. I’ll want the best. I get that you said that there was no real-world difference. But I’m a phone enthusiast. I’ve appreciated the Snapdragon engineers’ efforts.
I understand. It’s an over $1200 expense after all. But if reviewers wouldn’t have told you, you wouldn’t notice. That’s all. I also appreciate exyno’s engineers as competition is sorely missing in this space. Qualcomm’s monopoly over the Android devices is not a good thing and will return to hurt consumers eventually.