We expect Samsung to use two different chipsets in the Samsung Galaxy S21 range, with the United States likely receiving the Snapdragon 888, while the United Kingdom and many other regions are likely to receive the Exynos 2100. And although early benchmarks suggest that there may be an abyss in the performance between the two chipsets, there is now hope that they will be similar.
A new result from Geekbench 5 shared by @UniverseIce (a leak with a decent track record) shows the scores for a phone running the Exynos 2100. The phone name is not listed, but the model number is SM-G996B, which was previously linked to the Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus.
In any case, it records a single-core result of 1,089 and a multi-core score of 3,963. For comparison, a pair of previous Exynos 2100 benchmarks showed results of 1,006 / 3,059 and 1,038 / 3,060 for single-core and multi-core, respectively.
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Therefore, the new result has only a marginally higher single-core score, but the multi-core score exceeds previous benchmarks.
In fact, it still has the Snapdragon 888 beat – Qualcomm itself (the maker of the Snapdragon chipsets) shared a score of 3,794 cores for that, while on a Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus benchmark based on the Snapdragon 888 we saw a multi-core score of 3,319. Although the single-core result of 1,120 on that benchmark is still a little bit higher than Exynos.
Based on this latest benchmark then, the Exynos 2100 should offer performance similar to the Snapdragon 888, if not a little better, which is great news for anyone concerned about getting stuck with a lower version of the Samsung Galaxy S21.
Of course, we would still accept that last result with a pinch of salt, especially since it is at odds with the previous ones. But we should have a good idea of the Galaxy S21’s performance soon, as it is rumored that the range will be arriving on January 14th.
Via Phandroid