The primary Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks have cropped up on-line, and there’s each good and barely regarding information for Samsung’s super-skinny smartphone.
As noticed by My Good Worth, a tool with the mannequin title ‘Samsung SM-S937B’ has appeared on the extensively used Geekbench 6 benchmark software.
This has been recognized as the worldwide mannequin of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s a lot anticipated ‘slim’ mannequin which hasn’t been absolutely introduced but.
What we be taught from the Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks
First issues first, the mere indisputable fact that the Galaxy S25 Edge is now out within the wild being benchmarked suggests {that a} launch isn’t far off. The most recent reviews declare that it might arrive as quickly as April.
Extra importantly, the benchmark outcome confirms that Samsung goes all out on the part entrance. We now know that the Galaxy S25 Edge is certainly getting the identical Snapdragon 8 Elite chip as the remainder of the Galaxy S25 household.
It additionally confirms that Qualcomm’s high chip can be backed by 12GB of RAM – once more, identical to each different member of the Galaxy S25 household.
Nevertheless, the benchmark outcome itself offers me pause.
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Why I’m only a tad involved
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge right here attains a single-core rating of 2806 and a multi-core rating of 8416. That’s a good sufficient outcome, but it surely falls notably in need of the remainder of the Galaxy S25 vary – and certainly different telephones operating on the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
For instance, our reviewer had the Galaxy S25 scoring 9404 in Geekbench 6’s multi-core take a look at, and the Galaxy S25 Extremely scoring the same 9413. That’s round a 12% deficit for Samsung’s slender new telephone.
There’s an opportunity this simply comes all the way down to early {hardware} that hasn’t been absolutely optimised but. It’s commonplace to get a number of performance-tweaking firmware updates across the time of a telephone’s launch.
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Nevertheless, it might additionally level to the telephone’s unusually slim dimensions (probably simply 6.4mm) inflicting efficiency points. Samsung can have had to make use of a a lot thinner thermal dissipation resolution within the Galaxy S25 Edge, and it might be that it merely doesn’t have sufficient cooling energy to run the Snapdragon 8 Elite at full whack.
The chip might have been down-clocked consequently and what occurs over a for much longer real-life gaming state of affairs is a fear.
Regardless of the case, the Galaxy S25 Edge is prone to carry out easily and effectively for day-to-day duties. However there’s an opportunity it’ll be the runt of the S25 litter – and we don’t simply imply its slim waistline.
For a tool that would price north of £1,000, that wouldn’t be an excellent look.