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I’m still concerned about performance of Galaxy S23’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Globally, Samsung will be shipping Galaxy S23 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. The company is working on the development of a Galaxy-exclusive AP, and Exynos 2300 has reportedly shifted to Galaxy FE devices.
Meanwhile, there’s concern that Galaxy S23’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 might not perform. It was first reported in November that Snapdragon APs that will be used in Galaxy S23 devices are being manufactured by Samsung.
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As we’ve seen in the benchmark reports, the Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra use Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, but, an overclocked variant. The standard has a frequency of 3.2GHz, while Samsung’s 8 Gen 2 is clocked at 3.36Ghz.
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Earlier, Qualcomm’s CFO revealed that the company has signed a multi-year partnership with Samsung. However, it looks like the partnership is not limited to just bringing upcoming Galaxies with Snapdragon variants worldwide.
Both of the technology giants may have dealt with 100% usage of Snapdragon chips in favor of production orders at Samsung Foundry. Production line and method are the crucial things that finalize the performance and efficiency.
Snapdragon at Samsung Foundry
The Korean tech giant’s chip foundry has produced the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processors. However, Qualcomm replaced Samsung with TSMC due to heating and performance throttling reports in devices.
The Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset, which is being manufactured by TSMC outperformed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 along with resolving issues like heating and performance throttling.
It’s also true that Samsung’s own made Exynos never became a tough competitor to Qualcomm chipsets. And eventually, Exynos flagship chips have been removed from Samsung’s flagship smartphone lineup.
The GPU performance throttling issue even forced Samsung to officially apologize at the shareholders’ meeting. Not that all, that controversy made radical attacks on the worldwide sales of the Galaxy S23 series devices.
Samsung is reportedly unveiling Galaxy S23 series on February 1, while release is likely to happen a week later. All devices will be equipped with overclocked Qualcomm chips, but it may not be as performer as standard version.
