![]() Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 outlookĪfter years of falling behind, Qualcomm has finally narrowed the gap with Apple Silicon. The iPhone 14 Pro Max is still the CPU king, however, and yet, most people don't need all of that raw horsepower. You could save some money and get the OnePlus 11 ($699) to get equal, if not better, CPU performance - outside of OnePlus' weird compatibility with our Adobe Premiere Rush benchmark. If you're not as concerned with gaming, then it's moot. If gaming is your primary metric, then yes. So back to my original question: Is Samsung's hype for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy worth anything? As anticlimactic as it might be to hear, it depends. It might be a small one, but it does technically give the S23 series the crown as the kings of gaming phones. However, the Galaxy S23's gaming lead is not to be ignored. That leads me to believe that the cooling systems, be it passive or active, in either handset negate the Galaxy S23's 160MHz advantage. In fact, both the OnePlus 11 and RedMagic 8 Pro beat out the Galaxy S23 in Geekbench CPU performance, in both versions 5 and 6. Interestingly enough, the RedMagic 8 Pro's results in Geekbench show that keeping the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 cool lets it boost higher for longer without throttling back for heat's sake. That does appear to pay off in the graphics department especially, though by a margin that no human could perceive without metrics counters. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy: Does it make a difference?īased on these results, is Samsung right in hyping up its special overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2?įor reference, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy sports a base clock speed of 3.36GHz versus the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's 3.3GHz. Color me impressed with that generational leap, which is normally unheard of. Meanwhile, the Pixel 7 Pro is not.Įven better, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 shows incredible improvement over both the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. But that means that the Galaxy S23 is the best gaming phone on the market right now. ![]() The iPhone 14 Pro Max lagged quite a bit at 74 fps, even though a human is not likely to notice that difference. Even its result of 23 fps in Extreme Unlimited is impressive, even if it is just slightly better than the other devices.īoth the OnePlus 11 and RedMagic 8 Pro aren't far behind at 84 fps. It achieved a max of 87 frames per second (fps) in Unlimited, which is the best we've ever seen from a smartphone. This is where things get truly interesting, because Samsung takes a clear lead over anything else, even the iPhone 14 Pro Max. We put each phone through 3DMark Wild Life Unlimited and the more grueling Wild Life Extreme Unlimited to test the GPUs. So CPU performance sees a noticeable improvement across the board, and even comes close to Apple in Geekbench, but what about the GPU? The Pixel 7 Pro achieved the exact same result. However, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 sees a notable improvement over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, since the Galaxy S22 took 47 seconds to complete the test. The app would not launch on the RedMagic 8 Pro or Zenfone 9, so we cannot include those results here. The OnePlus 11 is an outlier among the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones, but that was the case with the OnePlus 10 Pro last year, too. The iPhone 14 Pro Max is right there behind it at 30 seconds, effectively a statically insignificant difference.Īpple clearly leads the pack, but Qualcomm is closer than ever. ![]() It's a good test where a phone must transcode a 4K video file to 1080p as quickly as it can.Īpple still clearly leads the pack with the iPhone 14 turning in the fastest result of 28 seconds. That's why we run an Adobe Premiere Rush transcoding test as a way to gauge real-world performance. The results are only good for comparing phones to each other, but what do those actually mean? Geekbench tests are all well and good, but they don't provide much real-world value. ![]()
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