While the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra won't be the first to feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite, it's expected to be among the first flagship phones to sport an overclocked version of the chip. However, in a recent benchmark, this overclocked SoC delivered underwhelming performance.
To be specific, the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite inside the Galaxy S25 Ultra was able to score 3,049 in single-core and 9,793 in multi-core on Geekbench. As for the overclock that was applied, as the listing shows, the 6-core cluster has the same stock 3.53 GHz clock speed, but the 2-core cluster is clocked at 4.47 GHz instead of 4.32 GHz.
Although this is a minor overclock, it should've led to higher scores than what some of the top-scoring flagship phones can achieve with the stock SoC. For reference, the RedMagic 10 Pro can get a multi-core score of over 10,000 points and a single-core score of nearly 3,300 points. Yes, RedMagic's Snapdragon 8 Elite phone does have a slight upper hand for the built-in active cooler, but other flagship phones without an active cooling setup can score close to what the Galaxy S25 Ultra has scored here.
It's worth noting that the phone that was tested in this specific benchmark run had 12 GB of RAM, but Samsung is rumored to launch a 16 GB version. This upper-tier version could've obtained a better score, but then again, the difference may not have been that noticeable.
Of course, there's no denying that even though the Galaxy S25 series launch event is around the corner, this is still an early benchmark run. Samsung may not have yet made final optimizations to the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite.