Samsung Galaxy S23 FE shows up on Geekbench with an Exynos SoC

Despite being a pipe dream not too long ago, recently unearthed evidence effectively confirms that the Galaxy S23 FE is real. Some renders of the affordable flagship showed up not too long ago, along with a regulatory listing that shed light on its battery capacity. Now, a Geekbench listing confirms its SoC, and, unfortunately, it isn't the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 as foretold earlier.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE has made its Geekbench debut as the SM-S711B. It is powered by the now-dated Exynos 2200 SoC, which is confirmed by its tri-cluster CPU's clock speeds and the motherboard/governer model. Additionally, the presence of the Xclipse 920 GPU further confirms the speculation. This particular Galaxy S23 FE variant has 8 GB of memory and is probably as high as it gets.

A Qualcomm-powered variant could be in the pipeline, but no there is no evidence to back up that speculation at the time of writing. For what it's worth, the Exynos 2200 powering the Galaxy S23 FE is said to be manufactured on a significantly better version of Samsung's 4 nm node, so it might not be as problematic as the one found on the Galaxy S22 series.

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