The Samsung Galaxy S24 series sports a new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy processor to provide blazing-fast performance for apps, games, and the phone’s new Galaxy AI features. Much like last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy that powered the Galaxy S23 range, the new phones include an “optimized” version of Qualcomm’s latest processor — the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Unfortunately, neither Qualcomm nor Samsung has detailed the low-level specifics of those optimizations. We checked the clock speeds on the Galaxy S24 Ultra and found that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy has a higher maximum clock at 3.4GHz, up from 3.3GHz, for its big Cortex-X4 core. We couldn’t detect any other changes, the Cortex-A720 clusters offer 2.96GHz and 3.15GHz peaks, while the two small Cortex-A520 cores reach 2.26GHz. We see those same metrics on the 8 Gen 3-powered ASUS ROG Phone 8 and OPPO Find X7 Ultra I have in hand.