Samsung ’s new phone has arrived and it ’s already one of the unspoiled phones of the yr . Along with a 200MP main camera , 100X zoom , and a giant 6.8 - inch sieve , the Galaxy S23 Ultra also has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy which has a high-pitched CPU clock velocity ( 3.36GHz vs 3.2GHz ) and GPU clock speed ( 719MHz vs 680MHz ) than the stock chip , along with 12 GB of RAM . That means it should be the truehearted Android phone ever .
But that does n’t mean it ’s the fastest headphone ever . Apple ’s chips have historically handled the latest Snapdragon chip with ease , but with a relatively modest pep pill jut from the A15 to the A16 , it seemed potential , even likely , that Qualcomm would finally catch up to Apple ’s young iPhone chips .
Not so . In bench mark enter by our colleagues at TechAdvisor , the Galaxy S23 Ultra gets soundly beaten by the A16 in the iPhone 14 Pro and the A15 in the iPhone 13 Pro , and ca n’t even keep up with the iPhone 12 ’s A14 chip in Geekbench ’s single - magnetic core test . The S23 fare better in the multi - core tests , but it also has more gist and RAM and still barely beatniks last class ’s chip .
For specifics , the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has an 8 - core central processing unit while the A16 has a 6 - core design . On the graphic side , Apple uses a 5 - core GPU and the Snapdragon has an Adreno 740 GPU . As you may see in the Wild Life benchmark above , the S23 Ultra truly shines when it number to computer graphic , actually outdo the A16 in 3D Mark ’s Wild Life Extreme limitless exam , which will be great for gamers .
It also demo how Qualcomm has prioritise graphics improvements with the Gen 2 chipping . In the same test with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip , the Wild Life Extreme Unlimited bench mark record 2577 , making the new chip more than 40 pct quicker . Meanwhile , theA16 was a somewhat minor upgrade , with gains of some 10 percent over the A15 . While Apple has made major increase with the GPUs in its Max and Ultra Mac chips , iPhone graphic have been somewhat stagnant .
But when it comes to daily public presentation , the S23 still lags behind the iPhone — and the gap is potential to grow this year . While leakedSnapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarksshow scores of 1930 ( single - core ) and 6236 ( multi - core ) , both of which gravel the A16 , Apple is probable to deliver a huge saltation in operation with its 3 nanometre A17 chip when it set in motion theiPhone 15handsets . But at least S24 Ultra buyers will have a phone that beat the iPhone 13 .
