Samsung, which uses a Snapdragon processor all over the world for the Galaxy S23 series, is expected to use a new Exynos chip for the Galaxy S24 series. It is said that the company’s new generation Galaxy S series phones will have Exynos 2400 processors in some countries. While the chip hasn’t been announced yet, a new leak gives us a look at the Exynos 2400’s GPU performance.
Samsung appears to be testing and tweaking the GPU performance of the unannounced Exynos 2400 processor inside the Galaxy S24. It was revealed that the Xclipse 940 GPU inside the Exynos 2400 scored 1,656 points in the cross-platform Sacred Path test. This means 30 percent better performance than the Exynos 2200’s Xclipse 920 GPU using Vulkan APIs. More importantly, it is close to the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with Adreno 740 GPU, which scored 1,787 points in the same test. This means that it can only beat last year’s Snapdragon model.
Since it’s early days in testing and the company has had months to optimize the performance and power profile, we can expect it to improve when the Galaxy S24 launches early next year. Still, looking at this first look, it looks hard to compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in terms of GPU performance. Considering that the Exynos 2200 has hardware ray tracing for games, the Exynos 2400 may feature ray tracing and the company may have improved the ray tracing performance over its previous chip.
It looks like Samsung will announce the Exynos 2400 a few weeks before the launch of the Galaxy S24 series. We expect it to use ARM’s new Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 CPU cores. Previous leaks have pointed to twice the GPU cores compared to the Exynos 2200, but the clock speeds and architectures are unclear as of now. The chip is said to be produced using Samsung Foundry’s next-generation 4nm semiconductor manufacturing process.
If Samsung can’t match the performance of the Exynos 2400 with the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, it may disappoint its fans once again. Some rumors say that the Galaxy S24 Ultra will only use Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, while Exynos 2400 will only be used in the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+. It’s clear that this could cause a huge performance difference between the base, Plus and Ultra models of the Galaxy S24.
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