Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Performance Examined!

Take a look at the performance of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, and find out how well it performs against the competition!

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Flagship Class Performance!

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra runs on the most powerful mobile SoC available for Android devices – the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

Fabricated on the latest 4nm Samsung process technology, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 boasts a powerful Adreno 730 GPU as well as eight processor cores in a triple-tier architecture :

• a Cortex-X2 prime core running at up to 3 GHz,
• three sustained-performance Cortex-A710 cores running at up to 2.5 GHz, and
• four energy-efficient Cortex-A510 cores running at 1.8 GHz.

On paper, this is about as powerful as it gets in 2022, but let’s take a look at how it actually performs!

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Work Performance

We first tested the Galaxy S22 Ultra using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.

Work 3.0	Galaxy Z Flip 3	Galaxy S22 Ultra	Galaxy S21 Ultra	Note20 Ultra	Galaxy A52
Mobile Platform	SD 888	SD 8 Gen 1	Exynos 2100	Exynos 990	SD 750G
Performance Score	13317	12860	12535	10523	7874
Web Browsing	11637	10442	10185	8865	7021
Video Editing	7762	7444	6336	6232	5693
Writing	15316	15471	15247	11112	7454
Photo Editing	25357	30177	37847	30789	15812
Data Manipulation	11938	9691	8310	6825	6424

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was surprisingly slightly slower than the Snapdragon 888 used by the Galaxy Z Flip 3, but the difference is just 5%, which means you won’t actually notice the difference.

For certain, it will easily handle anything you throw at it, whether it’s just posting your latest Instagram pictures or editing a 4K video.

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Gaming Performance

For gaming, we tested the Galaxy S22 Ultra using 3DMark, with these results :

3DMark	Galaxy S22 Ultra	Galaxy Z Flip 3	Note20 Ultra	Galaxy Note10+
Device	SD 8 Gen 1	SD 888	Exynos 990	Exynos 9825
Sling Shot Unlimited	11094	9248	8026	3327
Wild Life Unlimited	9106	3952	4504	3288
Wild Life Extreme Unlimited	2220	1174	1387	528

Look at that! The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was a head above the competition when it comes to gaming!

It was 20% to 130% faster than the Snapdragon 888, and 38% to 102% faster than the Exynos 990!

For certain, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 will crush any game you throw at it.

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Overall Performance

We then tested the Galaxy S22 Ultra using AnTuTu, yielding these results :

AnTuTu	Galaxy S22 Ultra	Galaxy Z Flip 3	Galaxy S21 Ultra	Note20 Ultra	Galaxy A52
Device	SD 8 Gen 1	SD 888	Exynos 2100	Exynos 990	SD 750G
AnTuTu Score	889167	696767	624411	522735	341908
CPU	203090	206228	166290	146783	105098
GPU	402617	242573	258995	215205	88068
Memory	146002	133586	120805	89376	60642
UX	137458	114380	78321	71371	88100

The AnTuTu benchmark confirmed that the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a veritable beast of a performer, beating even the very fast Galaxy Z Flip 3 by 28%, and the last-generation Galaxy S21 Ultra by 42!

Its GPU performance was, in particular, spectacular, delivering 66% better performance than the Galaxy Z Flip 3, and 55% better performance than the Galaxy S21 Ultra!

But note that its temperature jumped by over 10°C! At peak performance, the Galaxy S22 Ultra can get quite toasty!

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Performance Summary

The Galaxy S22 Ultra was meant to be the ultimate Samsung smartphone for 2022, and it does not disappoint.

Built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 – the fastest mobile SoC that exists for Android devices – it offers a tremendous boost in GPU performance, which should make gamers and mobile content creators happy.

The benchmark results amply demonstrates, you can count on the Galaxy S22 Ultra to easily handle anything and everything you throw at it.

 

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra : Price + Availability

Samsung is offering the Galaxy S22 Ultra in four colour options – Burgundy, Green, Phantom Black and Phantom White.

I had the opportunity to attend an exclusive Samsung preview event, to check out all four colours for ourselves.

Note : Samsung only allowed us to use digital cameras, so the video is not stabilised as it would be with smartphones that I generally use.

Here in Malaysia, it is available starting 10 February 2022 in three variants, at these price points :

• 8 GB + 128 GB : RM 5,099 (about US$1,219 / £899 / A$1,699 / S$1,629)
• 12 GB + 256 GB : RM 5,499 (about US$1,314 / £969 / A$1,829 / S$1,759)
• 12 GB + 512 GB : RM 5,899 (about US$1,409 / £1,039 / A$1,959 / S$1,889)

Here are some online pre-order options :

• Malaysia : RM5,499 | RM5,499 | RM5,499 | RM5,499
• Singapore : S$1,858
• United States : US$1,199 | US$1,199
• United Kingdom : £1,149 | £1,149 | £1,249 | £1,249
• Australia : A$1,999

 

 

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