Global Samsung Galaxy S25+ runs Geekbench with Snapdragon 8 Elite on board

Samsung has long been rumored to equip the entire Galaxy S25 family with Qualcomm's latest and greatest chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. But the Korean company has tested the Galaxy S25+ with an Exynos chipset in the past - not once, but twice in fact. So it looks like the decision to be all-in with the Snapdragon 8 Elite wasn't taken from the get-go. Presumably, the company wanted to use its own SoC but decided against it when yield issues kept popping up.

The good news is that today the global Galaxy S25+, identified by the model number SM-S936B, has taken to Geekbench again, and this time, unlike the past two, it's rocking the Snapdragon 8 Elite indeed. This pretty much confirms that the entire family will use this chip - as much as any unofficial bit of info can really 'confirm' anything, that is.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the phone managed a single-core score of 2,721 and a multi-core score of 9,435. We've seen much better scores for both from other Snapdragon 8 Elite models, but at least this performance isn't as bad as that of the upcoming Galaxy S25 Slim.

The S25+ that was tested had 12GB of RAM and that's likely to be the only option come release day. It unsurprisingly runs Android 15 as it should from day one, with One UI 7 on top of course.

The chip will undoubtedly be branded Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy like last year, and it's slightly overclocked compared to the 'normal' version. This one goes up to 4.47 GHz according to Geekbench which is a bit over 3% more than the 4.32 GHz its Prime cores reach elsewhere. That improvement clearly can't be seen in the benchmark results, however. At least not yet.

The Galaxy S25 family is getting official on January 22.

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