Galaxy S23 phones come with an overclocked version of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
2022 series phones Galaxy S22 Samsung chip in most parts of the world except Europe Snapdragon 8 generation 1 were offered While we expected the next generation of these products to arrive with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and only the Ultra model will use its special version, apparently all members of this family will use the overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Galaxy S23 Ultra Some time ago, it was seen in the Geekbench benchmark, and now it’s time for the standard version of this family. The points of the normal version of the Galaxy S23 are significantly lower than the Ultra version.
Maybe the reason for this issue is that the software of this phone is not complete. Maybe in versions other than the Ultra version, the performance has been deliberately reduced so that the temperature of the phone does not increase too much; Because it is more difficult to deal with the increase in temperature and to disperse the heat created in the smaller versions than the Ultra version, due to their smaller dimensions.
Overclocked version of Snapdragon 8 generation 2 in Galaxy S23 series
However, it is quite possible to use the overclocked version of Snapdragon 8 generation 2 in Galaxy S23 phones. The official statistics published by Qualcomm for the Snapdragon 8 generation 2 show that the maximum frequency of the prime or main core of this processor is 3.19 GHz. While in the benchmark results for Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Ultra, the maximum frequency of this core is 3.36 GHz.
It also seems that the graphics processor of these phones is also overclocked and works with a frequency of 719 MHz instead of 680 MHz. Fortunately, overclocking the CPU and GPU of the Qualcomm chip does not lead to an increase in energy consumption and does not have much effect on battery charging.
Considering the good energy efficiency of Snapdragon 8 Plus generation 1 in Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4, we expect Snapdragon 8 generation 2 to show better performance in Galaxy S23 series and with a slight increase in frequency, energy consumption will not increase significantly.