Just a day after making its first appearance on Geekbench, Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S25 Ultra has made yet another run on the benchmarking platform. This time, with a higher CPU frequency for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip.
More specifically, the new benchmark reveals the SoC’s two prime cores running at 4.47 GHz, up from 4.19 GHz from yesterday’s listing. But it’s not just the main cores, even the six efficiency cores have a boost in frequency, from 2.90 GHz to 3.53 GHz.
This is likely the highest clock speed we have seen for Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 so far, both for performance and efficiency cores. That’s to be expected, though.
Samsung uses custom “Snapdragon for Galaxy” chips in its flagship S-series phones, which typically have higher clock speeds than the regular version. So the chip that appeared in the S25 Ultra is also likely the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 “for Galaxy” variant.
As is obvious to expect, the new run reveals a higher performance score for the Galaxy S25 Ultra in Geekbench, especially in the multi-core test, which jumped from 9080 to 9706 points. The single-core performance saw a slight dip, though. It now sits at 3011 points from 3069.
However, note that these are the early benchmarks of the phone and Samsung still has optimizations to do to churn out the best of the SoC. And while synthetic benchmarks provide an idea of the phone’s capabilities, they don’t always reflect real-world performance. They simply give us an idea of how well the device might handle your daily usage and how it compares to rivals.
For instance, if we consider the latest Geekbench data, the iPhone 16 Pro Max outperforms the S25 Ultra. The iPhone scores around 3,400 points in single-core and 8,300 in multi-core benchmarks. As is usual, the iPhone delivers stronger single-core results but lags in multi-core performance compared to its Android competitor.
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