Exynos 2400 outperforms Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in certain aspects

Samsung has returned to its dual-platform strategy with its in-house Exynos 2400 chip that replaces the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 from the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus in Europe and many other regions worldwide. Although Samsung isn’t using its in-house Exynos chip in the ultra flagship, the Galaxy S24 Ultra, anywhere on this planet. So, is there still a significant performance disparity between the current Exynos and Snapdragon flagships that could otherwise hold back the ultra flagship?

Well, the Exynos 2400 performs a lot better in terms of both peak performance and power efficiency compared to its predecessors and it does outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in certain places.

Exynos 2400 outperformed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in ray tracing performance

Golden Reviewer has tested out the performance and power efficiency of the Exynos 2400 chip with different synthetic benchmarks. Surprisingly, Samsung’s deca-core Exynos 2400 managed to surpass the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 both in terms of FPS and power efficiency in 3DMark SolarBay. The Exynos chip scored 8642 FPS as compared to the 8601 FPS of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, it’s a win. even if the margin is smaller. Speaking of power efficiency, the Exynos 2400 consumed around 20% less power in this particular test. Samsung seems to have solved at least some of the issues with the Xclips 940 GPU.

Moving on to some other GPU tests, however, the Exynos chip was outperformed by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. For example, in the 3DMark Wildlife extreme, the Exynos 2400 scored quite a bit lower at 4360 as compared to the 5181 of the Snapdragon flagship. The power efficiency was also higher on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Other GPU tests like the GFXBench 3.1 GFXBench Aztec also yielded similar results, i.e. close but still inferior to the Snapdragon counterpart.

Exynos 2400 still consumes a lot of power in places

The Exynos 2400 achieved 2266 points in Single-Core and 7326 points in Multi-Core test in Geekbench. NotebookCheck noted that it surpassed the average score of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in their benchmark database, albeit by a small margin. Additionally, NotebookCheck noted that the Exynos chip in question consumes more than 20 watts of power in places during the test. Datasheets from Golden Reviewer also show a higher average power consumption for both the ‘Big’ Cortex-X4 core and the Mid cores.