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The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is finally official, and it’s the first significant phone series to launch widely with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. Qualcomm’s new chipset is its first SoC to use Arm’s v9 CPU cores as well as an Adreno GPU that promises a notable boost in graphical performance.
It’s one thing to promise significant gains, but another matter entirely to deliver these results. We’ve put the Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S22 Ultra through several preliminary tests, and here’s what we found out.