Let’s take a look at the performance of the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphone, which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile SoC!

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Flagship Class Performance!

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is powered exclusively by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy, which has a slightly overclocked prime core. It has eight processor cores in a quad-cluster architecture:

• 1 x Arm Cortex-X4 core (3.39 GHz, instead of 3.3 GHz)
• 3 x Arm Cortex-A720 cores
• 2 x Arm Cortex-A720 cores
• 2 x Arm Cortex-A520 cores

This mobile SoC also comes with the Qualcomm Adreno 750 GPU which supports ray-tracing, an improved Hexagon NPU, and the Snapdragon X75 5G modem that supports Sub-6Ghz and mmWave connectivity.

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Work Performance

We first tested the Galaxy S24 Ultra using PCMark, which simulates work applications like web browsing, playing video, writing text and editing photos.

Work 3.0	S23 Ultra	S24 Ultra	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 4	S23 FE
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8+ Gen 1	Exynos 2200
Performance Score	16408	14931	14655	14429	13971
Web Browsing	15680	11663	11404	12097	11664
Video Editing	7879	6474	7943	7387	7369
Writing	22257	20333	19525	17593	18138
Photo Editing	35533	34350	324420	31762	27060
Data Manipulation	12171	14070	11788	12523	12616

Interestingly, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was much slower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 used in last year’s Galaxy S23 Ultra, and just barely faster than the SD 8 Gen 2 used in the Galaxy Z Flip5.

I should point out that these are peak performance results. The truth is – you won’t be able to actually tell the difference between all these flagship-class mobile processors in normal usage. They are all really fast.

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Storage Performance

PCMark also has an Android Storage 2.0 benchmark that measures the smartphone’s storage I/O performance.

Storage 2.0	Z Flip 5	S23 Ultra	S24 Ultra	S23 FE	Z Flip 4
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 9 Gen 3	Exynos 2200	SD 8+ Gen 1
Storage Score	48435	41647	33005	31839	27271
Sequential Read (MB/s)	2676.53	2592.42	2907.37	1584.66	1350.51
Random Read (MB/s)	49.95	38.25	60.98	31.25	33.94
Sequential Write (MB/s)	2631.38	603.29	3084.95	510.16	256.81
Random Write (MB/s)	76.66	81.44	106.34	81.13	50.29

Samsung appeared to be using faster flash storage in the Galaxy S24 Ultra. However, its overall storage score was lower than the S23 Ultra and Z Flip5, due to much slower database read and write speeds.

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Gaming Performance

For gaming, we tested the Galaxy S24 Ultra using 3DMark, with these results :

3DMark	S24 Ultra	S23 Ultra	Z Flip 5	Z Flip 4	S23 FE
Mobile Platform	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8+ Gen 1	Exynos 2200
Solar Bay Unlimited	8576	NA	5481	NA	4570
Wild Life Extreme Unlimited	5020	3814	3705	2636	2233
Wild Life Unlimited	20534	14554	14823	11144	8671
Sling Shot Extreme Unlimited	19653	13904	13558	6912	9484
Sling Shot Unlimited	22656	16344	16661	10690	11348

Where the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra really shines is in its gaming performance. Its Adreno 750 GPU not only supports ray tracing, it does a fantastic job of delivering top-notch 3D graphics performance.

Not only does it have a faster GPU, the Samsung S24 Ultra also has a 90% larger vapour chamber that allows it to better sustain peak performance during intense gaming sessions.

Although ray tracing games are far and few in between for now, the new Solar Bay benchmark shows that the Galaxy S24 Ultra delivers 56% better 3D with ray tracing performance than the Galaxy Z Flip5, and 88% better performance. than the Galaxy S23 FE!

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Overall Performance

We then tested the Galaxy S24 Ultra using AnTuTu, yielding these results :

AnTuTu	S24 Ultra	S23 Ultra	Z Flip 5	S23 FE	Z Flip 4
Device	SD 8 Gen 3	SD 8 Gen 2	SD 8 Gen 2	Exynos 2200	SD 8+ Gen 1
AnTuTu Score	1826776	1212174	1187296	1166868	856357
CPU	456400	261886	393404	329078	205939
GPU	682555	538823	282780	425455	362669
Memory	380519	236163	291048	193981	135707
UX	307302	175302	220064	218354	152042

Will you look at that? The AnTuTu benchmark shows that the Galaxy S24 Ultra is a solid 50% faster than the Galaxy S23 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 5 – both powered by last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Very nice!

But note that its temperature jumped by almost 12°C! At peak performance, the Galaxy S24 Ultra can get really toasty!

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Performance Summary

There is no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra offers top-notch performance, thanks to its use of a slightly overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy, and a 90% larger vapour chamber.

It shows in the benchmarks – the Galaxy S24 Ultra topped all of the benchmarks, except for work performance. It is particularly strong in 3D graphics and ray tracing performance. With gaming performance like this, dedicated gaming smartphones seem rather pointless.

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra : Price + Colour Options

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is available in four main colours:

• Titanium Black
• Titanium Gray
• Titanium Violet, and
• Titanium Yellow

Here are the official launch prices for the three available storage capacities:

• 256 GB : US$1,299.99 | £1,249 | A$2,199 | S$1,928 | RM6,299
• 512 GB : US$1,419.99 | £1,349 | A$2,399 | S$2,128 | RM6,799
• 1 TB : US$1,659 | £1,549 | A$2,799 | S$2,428 | RM7,799

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