Chipset costs are getting uncontrolled and firms are on the lookout for some cheaper alternate options. The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is an fascinating case – Samsung selected an in-house chip, however not the identical that’s present in Galaxy S24 and S24+ telephones in some components of the world. As a substitute, it used the Exynos 2400e.
Samsung is maintaining most particulars beneath wraps, however it did affirm that the prime Cortex-X4 core is clocked at as much as 3.1GHz as a substitute of the three.2GHz that the common 2400 chip does. Nonetheless, the opposite CPU clusters are the identical – 2x Cortex-A720 @ 2.90GHz, 3x A720 @ 2.59GHz and 4x A520 @ 1.96GHz.
Now, peak clock pace issues for bursty workloads (e.g. launching an app) and never a lot for sustained efficiency (like gaming). No phrase on the Xclipse 940 GPU clocks both.
Benchmarking the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE
A deeper investigation might be carried out for the complete overview, however proper now we acquired to run some CPU and GPU benchmarks – right here is the primary take a look at what the Galaxy S24 FE is able to.
Beginning with Geekbench, this can be a 10-core CPU with a mixture of 1x Cortex-X4, 5x A720 and 2x A520. In multi-core efficiency, it’s definitely a robust contender. We’ve included the Galaxy S24+ because the cellphone is similar measurement however makes use of the full-fat Exynos 2400. The distinction is tiny to say the least.
The Xiaomi 14T Professional makes use of the Dimensity 9300+, which has not one however 4 Cortex-X4 cores. It pulls barely forward, however solely barely. Then there’s the Galaxy S23 FE from final 12 months – although it is just a 12 months outdated, it used two-year outdated chipsets (Exynos 2200 or Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, we’ve included each). The 70% efficiency enhance from the brand new mannequin is spectacular.
Flipping over to the single-core take a look at, that 0.1GHz distinction between the Exynos 2400 and 2400e must be felt most strongly right here. And but it mainly doesn’t matter. The 14T Professional has its prime Cortex-X4 operating at as much as 3.4GHz, however its rating is just 4% larger. The Pixel 9 Professional XL, a $1,200 flagship whose Tensor G4 chip shares pedigree with the Exynos, falls behind in each assessments.
Subsequent, we’ll take a look at the GPU. The Xclipse 940 is an AMD RDNA 3 design and has confirmed to be fairly highly effective. Not as highly effective because the Adreno 750 contained in the Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S24 Extremely, however nonetheless. And it blows the outdated S23 FE out of the water.
A extra fascinating comparability is with the iPhone 16 Plus. It’s no flagship, however Apple does cost $900 for it – whereas a Galaxy S24 FE will solely set you again $650. The iPhone pulls forward by round 4% within the Wild Life Excessive take a look at, however loses by 23% within the Photo voltaic Bay take a look at. Photo voltaic Bay is a ray tracing take a look at – did we point out that the AMD GPU has {hardware} acceleration for that? So does the Apple A18 chip, however Apple’s GPU lags behind (the A18 Professional is quicker than the A18 on this take a look at, however nonetheless behind the Exynos 2400e).
The Exynos 2400e is shaping as much as be an fascinating chipset – you get 90%-95% of the efficiency of the Exynos 2400 and also you pay much less for it. Once more, the Galaxy S24 FE launches at $650 for an 8/128GB cellphone, whereas a Galaxy S24 (8/128GB) with the non-e chip was $800 at launch and the S24+ (12/256GB) was $1,000.
The diminished clock speeds may affect energy utilization – right here the S24 FE is at a small drawback with a 4,700mAh battery in comparison with 4,900mAh on the S24+. That’s one thing that we are going to take a look at through the overview course of.
And we might be operating extra benchmarks and doing different assessments too. Samsung claims it has improved the cooling in comparison with the S23 FE (the vapor chamber is 10% bigger – not a lot, however it’s one thing). We may have extra to share as soon as we get again to the workplace.