In abstract
- Galaxy S26 Edge seems on benchmark take a look at
- Confirms Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 and 12GB RAM
- Greatest scores we’ve seen
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge smartphone has cropped up in a well-liked benchmark take a look at, revealing its next-gen processor into the discount.
As noticed by leaker Abhishek Yadav, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge (code quantity SM-S947U) has made an look on the Geekbench 6 benchmarking device.
The take a look at serves to substantiate that Samsung’s second-generation skinny flagship – or at the very least the US model – will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chip.
We additionally study that this shall be backed by 12GB of RAM, and that the cellphone is operating on Android 16. All pretty uncontroversial stuff, if a lot be stated.
The preliminary scores for this next-gen flagship cellphone are higher than something we’ve seen earlier than in a smartphone – and by fairly a margin.
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge benchmark scores
The brand new cellphone attained a single-core rating of 3393 and a multi-core rating of 11515. By the use of a distinction, we clocked the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge with its Snapdragon 8 Elite as scoring round 3000 single and 9338 multi.
That’s about 13% and 23% quicker from the Galaxy S26 Edge respectively.
The iPhone 16 Professional Max, with its customized A18 Professional chip, scores across the similar on single-core efficiency, which represents fairly an achievement on Qualcomm’s half. Apple telephones have infamously spectacular single-core efficiency.
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Apple’s flagship cellphone is totally trounced in multi-core phrases, nonetheless, scoring a mere 8378 in our testing.
After all, by the point the Galaxy S26 Edge is that can be purchased, the iPhone 17 Professional Max shall be right here with its new and improved vapour chamber-bolstered A19 Professional chip. We might even have a not-quite-as-fast iPhone 17 Air current as a super-skinny competitor.
Regardless of the state of play at launch, the following Android era is trying set to be extraordinarily quick, and even the space-constrained Galaxy S26 Edge isn’t going to be left behind.