Unsurprisingly, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is powered by the same chipset as the Galaxy S23. Codenamed Kalama, it is Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 flagship processor. The octa-core CPU has one ARM Cortex-X3 prime core clocked at 3.36GHz, four Cortex-A710 mid cores clocked at 2.80GHz, and three Cortex-A510 power-efficient cores clocked at 2.02GHz. It will feature the Adreno 740 GPU and a bunch of other improvements, including an improved NPU (neural processing unit). The Geekbench listing shows the Galaxy S23 Ultra with 8GB of RAM. It is likely the base variant. Samsung should also offer the phone in 12GB RAM option, with multiple storage configurations. The handset will expectedly debut with Android 13 on board, with the Korean firm’s One UI custom software on top. It will likely get One UI 5.1. Samsung’s initial Android 13 release comes with One UI 5.0 and will roll out to the Galaxy S22 series later this month. As for the benchmark scores, the Galaxy S23 Ultra achieved 1,521 points in the single-core test and 4,689 points in the multi-core test on Geekbench v5.4.4 (via). The scores are in the same range as the vanilla model, which scored 1,524 and 4,597 in the two tests, respectively. For reference, the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s Geekbench scores are said to be around 1,200 for single-core tests and 3,300 for multi-core tests. So its successor is performing much better. And there’s still room for improvement, as this is likely an early prototype unit with unoptimized software.
Samsung may ship the Galaxy S23 with the Snapdragon processor globally
The Galaxy S23 series may come with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor wherever you buy. It isn’t like that for the Galaxy S22 series, or those before that. Samsung ships those phones with its in-house Exynos 2200 chipset in Europe and some other markets. The likes of the US, China, and India get the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. But the company has had to face a lot of criticism for the poor performance of Exynos solutions. It is now planning to go exclusive with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the Galaxy S23 series, though there’s no official confirmation yet. We should hear more about the next-gen Galaxy flagships in the coming weeks.
