The Samsung Galaxy S24 is tipped to use both Exynos and Snapdragon chipsets
We’ve got some new speculation surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S24 series for you, and it concerns perhaps the most important part of them all: the chipset that will power these flagship smartphones.
According to South Korean outlet The Electric (through GSMArena), the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus will use an Exynos 2400 CPU or a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, depending on region. The S24 Ultra, meanwhile, will be equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in every market.
This is a question that comes up every year: how much Samsung will rely on its own chipsets compared to Qualcomm’s. In fact, the rumors on this front when it comes to the Galaxy S24 have already started.
The Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra are all powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, while the Galaxy S23 FE uses the older Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the US and Samsung’s own Exynos 2200 processor everywhere else.
A tale of two chipsets
What we can be sure of is that the Samsung Exynos 2400 chipset is definitely on its way: Samsung announced that it is coming during a special technology preview, and it will bring 1.7x faster performance and 14.7x faster AI performance overall compared to its predecessor, the Exynos 2200.
As Elec notes, the Exynos 2300 never saw the light of day due to stability and speed issues – hence the Galaxy S23 going all-in with Qualcomm. The Samsung Galaxy S22, meanwhile, used a mix of the Exynos 2200 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
While Samsung has consistently been keen to put its own chipsets in its own phones in the interest of building better devices – as Apple and Google do – it has struggled to match the Exynos line with the Snapdragon offering .
We’ll have to wait and see whether it works out in 2024 or not. The Galaxy S24 phones are expected to launch in January or February, and we’ve already seen unofficial renderings of what these handsets could ultimately look like.