Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Exynos 2400 Galaxy S24 examined: Which is finest?

The return of Samsung’s Exynos chipset within the Galaxy S24 collection as soon as once more leaves us with a high-end flagship collection sporting a key {hardware} distinction relying on the place you reside. To recap, all Galaxy S24 Extremely homeowners and S24 and S24 Plus clients within the US, Canada, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong all obtain the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy chipset. Clients who purchase the Galaxy S24 or S24 Plus in Europe, the UK, India, and different areas obtain the Exynos 2400 for Galaxy.

We’ve already coated the low-level Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Exynos 2400 specs; at this time, we’re diving into our check outcomes to discover what variations, if any, there are to be discovered when utilizing these telephones. To make the check utterly truthful, we’ve grabbed each Exynos and Snapdragon variations of the common Galaxy S24, making certain constant battery capability, show specs, and different {hardware} for our side-by-side comparability.

Snapdragon has the most effective efficiency

Look throughout your suite of benchmarks, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mannequin comes out forward of the Exynos Galaxy S24 in each check. The margins aren’t large; there’s simply 7% between the 2 in Geekbench 6 and 5% in PCMark. Because of the telephones ‘ related CPU and reminiscence capabilities, you’re unlikely to note any efficiency distinction for day by day and heavy-duty workloads. Maybe probably the most attention-grabbing result’s that the Exynos’ ten-core setup is bested by Snapdragon’s bulkier eight-core CPU design.

Nevertheless, the suite of 3DMark graphics checks present larger wins for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which outscores the Exynos 2400 by 25% in Wild Life and 18% within the extra demanding Wild Life Excessive. The exception is Photo voltaic Bay, which makes use of ray tracing. The 2 fashions rating just about identically right here, suggesting a ray tracing bottleneck within the Adreno structure. Samsung’s use of AMD’s RDNA 3 Xclipse structure pays off right here.

Turning to emphasize checks, it’s clear that the restricted cooling capabilities of the compact Galaxy S24 kind issue don’t enable both of those GPUs to run at full tilt for lengthy. Each throttle again roughly concurrently, however the Snapdragon mannequin falls furthest from its peak potential. It falls to simply 47.9%, 54.2%, and 43.6% of its peak efficiency in every respective check. Exynos falls to 54.9%, 56.5%, and 60.3% after 20 runs. That stated, the 8 Gen 3 nonetheless outperforms the Exynos chip in commonplace rasterization. The exception is ray tracing, the place the AMD structure pulls forward as warmth builds up.

Curiously, the Exynos chip has marginally increased temperatures throughout all three of those checks. It averages about 2°C hotter than the Snapdragon cellphone beneath stress. Fortunately, neither cellphone breaches the dreaded 50°C mark.

Exynos affords higher battery life

Whereas Snapdragon has the sting in efficiency, our testing suggests Exynos Galaxy S24 clients will see higher battery life than their Snapdragon counterparts. This was additionally the case with previous-generation chipset comparisons, together with the Snapdragon 865 vs Exynos 990 and Snapdragon 888 versus Exynos 2100.

It’s not a clear-cut win for Exynos in all our battery life checks. Digital camera seize time clocks in at about the identical on each fashions, and the Snapdragon model lasted 16% longer at 4K30 video seize.

Nevertheless, the Exynos Galaxy S24 pulls forward with 17% longer 4K video playback and gaming benchmark occasions, and a 14% lead in our Zoom name check. The largest win, nevertheless, is 36% longer battery life in our automated net looking check. In terms of the duties you’re prone to do most frequently all through the day, the Exynos Galaxy S24 appears to final a good bit longer.

Why is that this the case? There are a couple of prospects. First, the Exynos 2400 has two extra small CPU cores and decrease clock speeds throughout all ten of its cores. Utilizing the lower-clocked CPUs for lighter workloads, comparable to net looking, ought to eat much less energy as a result of the background work is distributed throughout lower-power cores. Equally, it might be that Samsung Foundry’s third-generation 4nm (LPP+) manufacturing course of is as and even barely extra environment friendly than the TSMC 4nm course of utilized by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

This might additionally issue into the longer video playback occasions we see with the Exynos mannequin. It’s additionally attainable that Samsung’s video decoder is extra environment friendly, however we’re nicely into hypothesis right here.

After all, this check suite isn’t an exhaustive checklist of attainable use circumstances, so your mileage will range. Modem capabilities and the related drain when roaming between towers will have an effect on these outcomes however are past the scope of what we will check. Likewise, background duties and different choices will drain the battery too, so this check is extra of a tough information than absolute battery life expectations. Nonetheless, the Exynos 2400 appears extra frugal throughout most of our checks, pointing to longer battery life for world clients versus the Snapdragon mannequin.

Taking a look at this yr’s Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus fashions, the regional trade-off is marginally increased gaming efficiency for Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 clients, particularly in relation to non-ray-traced titles. Nevertheless, Exynos customers might find yourself with battery life for a lot of widespread workloads. Everybody can have their choice and precedence right here (I’d take the additional battery life).

In the end, there’s not quite a bit to be carried out about this anyway. Whether or not your area ships Exynos or Snapdragon variations of the Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus is a lottery, and we’d hardly suggest the trouble of importing a special mannequin. Afterall, the core Samsung Galaxy S24 expertise is identical, no matter which processor your cellphone options.