The Samsung Galaxy S22 series comprises one of the most powerful Android phones on the market right now, but their Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip still fails to reach any close to Apple’s A15 processor that powers the iPhone 13 Pro Max.

In a Geekbench 5 test performed by PCMag, the Galaxy S22 Ultra with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor scored 3,433 on the multi-core test, compared to 4,647 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max with Apple’s A15 Bionic chip. Similar results were seen on the single-core test with the iPhone 13 Pro Max reaching 1,735 points while the Galaxy S22 Ultra got 1,232.

The results aren’t surprising though. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 reference device from December had exhibited very similar scores and was only a marginal improvement over its previous generation. Apple’s A15, on the other hand, brings about significant performance boosts over the A14.

Compared to last year’s Snapdragon 888, the 8 Gen 1 shows a 13% rise in Geekbench single-core scores and a 9% rise in Geekbench multi-core scores, which is moderate. But on GFXBench benchmarks, PCMag saw that the chip is around 20% better at certain tasks.

Now, as you may have heard countless times, CPU and GPU benchmark scores don’t exactly translate to performance during real-world use. However, they still do give a hint of a chip’s capabilities when it comes to gaming and certain resource-intensive tasks like video editing.

NPUs are another new obsession of chipmakers and their customers alike, and are getting increasingly useful with tasks like image and voice processing. Qualcomm’s neural unit is dubbed “Hexagon” and has seemingly aided the S22 Ultra to reach 448 points on Geekbench’s machine learning test. This again is outperformed significantly by the iPhone 13 Pro Max which has scored 948 on the same test.

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The Samsung Galaxy S21 series is reportedly the worst-selling Galaxy S lineup in recent years. Hence, Samsung is said to bring huge improvements with the Galaxy S22 series to lure in buyers. But unfortunately, the initial reports about these upcoming phones say otherwise.

Just like the previous models, the Galaxy S22 series will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos chipsets. The tentative names of these SoCs are Snapdragon 895 and Exynos 2200.

Usually, the Snapdragon version is more powerful than the Exynos variant. But a preliminary Geekbech listing of the vanilla Galaxy S22 with a Snapdragon 895 suggests a different story.

As per the listing, the Qualcomm variant of the Galaxy S22 (SM-S901) with 8GB RAM and Android 12 scores only 475 points and 1393 points in single-core and multi-core tests respectively. For those unaware, these scores are way too low for the next-gen Snapdragon 800 series silicon. This year’s Snapdragon 888 itself can easily attain over 900 points in the single-core test and above 3000 points in the multi-core test.

As SamMobile points out, this particular listing could be either fake or the unit used was still not optimized. There’s also a chance that the device used for benchmark had ‘Power saving mode’ turned on.

We also have a similar feeling towards these benchmark scores. Anyway, we are still months away from the launch of this handset, which might take place in January. Hence, we expect to come across even more benchmark listings and whatnot in the coming days.

Having said that, what’s your take on this Geekbench listing of Galaxy S22? Also, what are your expectations of Exynos 2200, which is said to arrive with AMD mRDNA GPU? Do let us know in the comment section below.

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