The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra will likely be one of the most powerful Android phones of 2024, but it may not be as powerful as we hoped, or as early leaks suggested.
That’s because benchmarks are turned on Geekbank 6 (through NotebookCheck) for a device with the model number “Samsung SM-S928U”, believed to be the Galaxy S24 Ultra, have first appeared, showing that the phone can achieve a single-core performance score of 2,234 and a multi-core score of 6,807.
Now, these results are a healthy increase over the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, which currently averages 1,881 and 4,985 for single- and multi-core respectively. But they’re a long way from a leak that suggested we’d see multi-core scores of around 7,400 for the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
With a score like that, it would have even beaten the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which currently has an average multi-core score of 7,158 (and a single-core score of 2,884), but the actual scores we see are quite short. of Apple’s top phone.
Too little RAM for a 2024 flagship
This isn’t the only bad news either, as the benchmark also lists just 8GB of RAM, which is a pretty low amount for Samsung’s best phone, albeit in line with the Galaxy S23 Ultra – and as with that phone, there will be configurations with more RAM are also likely.
As for the good news, the phone is listed to use a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, which will likely be better than the Exynos 2400 that we keep hearing could power some phones in the Galaxy S24 line, at least in some regions. However, the latest leaks suggest that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, so this benchmark is in line with that.
Regardless, while certain aspects of this benchmark are a slight disappointment, the scores achieved here are still a big boost over those of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, and we also saw similarly big improvements in a recent AnTuTu benchmark for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
So while the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra may not be as powerful as the iPhone 15 Pro or the Pro Max, and may not match what an early leak claimed, it should still be a powerful smartphone. We’d really like to see more than 8GB of RAM, though, considering how expensive the phone is sure to be.