Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy S23 series on February 1st and we’ve already compared the vanilla Galaxy S23 to its main competitors, the iPhone 14 and OnePlus 11 as well as its predecessor, the Galaxy S22.
iPhone 14 Pro vs Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra comparison Geekbench
Samsung, with the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, made a complete switch to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and stopped shipping the 2023 flagship device with the Exynos chipset. According to the company, the Galaxy S23 series ships with a custom Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset with a higher maximum clock speed.
Record iPhone 14 Pro 1,874 in a single-core performance test while the Galaxy S23 Ultra only manages 1,480. Galaxy S23 Ultra is down from iPhone 14 Pro by 21.02 percent. However, the gap narrowed to 14.86 percent when it came to multi-core tests. Here, the Galaxy S23 Ultra scored 4,584 while the iPhone 14 Pro maintained its lead with a score of 5,384. Interestingly, the vanilla iPhone 14 with the older A15 Bionic equipped with a five-core GPU outperforms Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra when it comes to single-core performance.
In the past, Samsung has struggled to keep up with Apple’s silicon, and with Apple’s developments in this area, the gap has only widened. The Apple iPhone 13 performed better than both the Snapdragon and Exynos-powered Galaxy S22. The iPhone 13 is still better than the entire Galaxy S23 range in single-core tests.