Samsung is known to launch its flagship Galaxy S series smartphones in two chipset variants. The Qualcomm chipset variant usually goes to markets like the US while the inferior Samsung Exynos chipset variants are typically sold in the European markets.
However, it appears that Samsung is bringing the recently launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset to the European markets this year. And not only that but an exclusive high-frequency version, as pointed out by known tipster Ice Universe.
The upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra (model number SM-S918B) reportedly achieves a 1,504 single-core score and a 4,580 multi-core score on an alleged benchmark run from Geekbench 5, according to information released by Ice Universe. Of course, this is while running Android 13. The model that was tested used 8GB of RAM.
The main difference from other Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips is that the Cortex-X3-based Kryo Prime core is running at 3.36GHz, instead of the usual 3.2 GHz. The other seven cores on the octa-core chip are running at the usual frequencies. Since Ice Universe shared this tweet, Samsung has apparently had another go at Geekbench with the S23 Ultra, which this time was able to slightly improve its single-core performance by scoring 1530 points and managed a significant jump in the multicore performance with a score of 4779 points.
It’s unclear how much of a difference, if any, these higher-clocked chips will have in real-world usage compared to the usual garden variety Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. Maybe the move has to do more with Samsung trying to whip off the blemish that was caused by the recent performance-throttling (GOS) scandal for which the brand publically apologized after being caught. You can read our previous coverage of the Samsung GOS scandal here.
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