As has become the new normal, Samsung has an exclusive version of Qualcomm’s latest flagship processor tucked inside its new Galaxy S25 series. The Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, as it’s called, promises even more performance from an already incredibly quick chip, but does it live up to the hype? I’ve grabbed results from the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to find out.
Neither Qualcomm nor Samsung has much to say on the specifics of the latest “for Galaxy” chip. We’ve ascertained that peak CPU clock speeds now hit 4.47GHz, up 150MHz from the standard 4.32GHz. Big numbers, but that equates to only a 3.5% boost, hardly enough to make a meaningful difference to your apps. Other provided metrics point to a 30% faster GPU and a 40% faster NPU than the previous generation, but that doesn’t say anything about how it compares to today’s rivals. To ascertain if this is really all that much better than the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite, we’ve run the chip through our usual benchmark suite.