The Samsung Galaxy S24 could be powered by a special edition chipset
We don’t expect to see the Samsung Galaxy S24 series until early next year, but by then it looks like we’ll know pretty much all the specs of these phones, including the chipset powering them.
The team of SamMobile has compared two recently posted benchmarks – one believed to be from the Nubia RedMagic 9 and one believed to be from the Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus – and suggests the latter phone will have a special edition processor.
Both handsets are expected to run on the as-yet unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, but the configuration lists accompanying the leaked benchmarks show some subtle differences between the processor specs.
Each chipset is made up of cores (individual processing units), and these are apparently laid out differently, running at slightly faster speeds on the Samsung Galaxy 24 Plus compared to Nubia’s RedMagic 9.
Phone power
As you may recall from earlier this year, Qualcomm and Samsung teamed up to create a custom version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor for the handsets in the Samsung Galaxy S23 range – so it looks like this partnership is continued.
That bespoke Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was later made available to other manufacturers as well, but Samsung got it first. It seems likely that a similar arrangement could apply as we go through the flagship Android phones of 2024.
There has been a lot of speculation about the chipset that will appear in the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, with rumors that Samsung will return to its previous approach of putting its own Exynos processors in some versions of the phone.
That wasn’t the strategy with the Galaxy S23, as all three of these phones had Snapdragon silicon in them. Of course, at this stage it’s still not clear exactly how powerful the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be, but it should hit the market before the end of 2023.