Over the retiring few years , Samsung has had an annoying habit of splitting its chipset offering in its flagship Samsung Galaxy S series , with the UK and Europe getting a Samsung Exynos - power phone while those in the US would traditionally get a Qualcomm - powered variant .

That might not sound like a braggy deal on the surface , but there were large differences between the chipsets , not only in terms of pure carrying into action world power but also the evenly significant king efficiency . This mean that theGalaxy S22andS21were basically more muscular and more efficient in the US than in the UK and Europe , and that was jolly frustrating for consumer .

However , with the release of theSamsung Galaxy S23range in 2023 , the company reunite the chipset offering . disregarding of where you were in the world , your Samsung Galaxy S23 would sport the customSnapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy . That not only simplified things for consumers , but it mean the experience was ordered whether you bought your speech sound in New York or London .

But it looks like it was too good to be on-key , as Samsung has once again reverted to its chipset split with the launch of this year’sGalaxy S24range . That signify those in the UK and Europe get theExynos 2400 - powered phone , while those in the US get theSnapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy .

At the briefing effect I attend ahead of its mid - January launch , Samsung reassure me that the two chipsets were on par , not only in terms of king , but also battery efficiency . However , after getting my hand on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 - powered Galaxy S24 to compare to the Exynos 2400 - equipped version uncommitted in the UK , I have take in first - bridge player that this is simply not the case .

That ’s because , despite pledge from Samsung , the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy - power Galaxy S24 is much more capable than the Exynos 2400 variant , and that ’s well proven in bench mark examination .

The gap in performance is best showcased by the chipsets ’ GPUs . Running GFXBench Aztec Ruins on high configurations to simulate high - level 3D gambling at 1080p , the Exynos S24 contend a respectable 85fps , but the Snapdragon ’s 111fps dwarfed it .

It ’s a similar story in the GFXBench Car Chase benchmark , with the Snapdragon ’s 120fps beat the Exynos ’ 100fps . That ’s a considerable opening considering the two have identical spectacles aside from the processor .

Moving over to 3DMark Wildlife Extreme , a more diagrammatically intensive GPU run that runs a gamy - end 3D biz at 4 K , the Exynos variant scored 3957 – in note with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 of theOnePlus 12R – while the Snapdragon time in at 5016 , a difference of 1059 percentage point .

A fundamental feature of both the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Exynos 2400 isray tracing , though as you ’ve in all likelihood work out by now , the Snapdragon offers adept performance here too . Using 3DMark ’s newfangled ray - traced Solar Bay benchmark , the Snapdragon managed an average of 32fps liken to just 27fps from the Exynos contender .

The difference is n’t quite as stark in the CPU department , with the Snapdragon and Exynos score in Geekbench 6 pretty in line with one another . This suggests that it ’s only in the gaming department where you ’ll really notice the difference between the two chipsets , with a similarly rapid day - to - day experience when scroll through TikTok , sending emails and browsing the entanglement .

The only saving thanksgiving is that , with both chipsets work up on the same 4 nm process , there is n’t much remainder in condition of battery efficiency , as make up one’s mind by our stock battery test of trifle an HDR movie on Netflix for an 60 minutes .

you could see a sodding sum-up of benchmark test results justly here :

Even with arguably more conservation of parity than with old chipset split , we ’re once again in a situation where US users are effectively getting a much more capable smartphone than much of the residue of the world – and that ’s frustrating .

It ’s deserving note that this chipset split only hold to the Samsung Galaxy S24 andS24 Plus . Oddly enough , the top - endGalaxy S24 Ultracomes with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy worldwide . It ’s almost like Samsung itself be intimate which chipset was better ahead of launch …