Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy barely outperforms Exynos 2400 in Geekbench's GPU benchmarks

Recent leaks confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy defeated the Exynos 2400 by a slight margin despite Samsung's SoC packing more CPU cores. Before that, the Exynos 2400's Xclipse 940 GPU inched ahead of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's Adreno 740 in a relatively obscure benchmark. However, Qualcomm is now back in the lead with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy in Geekbench's Vulkan and OpenCL benchmarks.

The Adreno 750 (tentative) scores 17,314 points in Vulkan, and the Xclipse 940 scores 15,479. Similarly, the OpenCL scores are 14,731 (Adreno 750) and 14,908 (Xclipse 940). Overall, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy has a slight lead over the Exynos 2400. Even though both samples are pre-production silicon, the situation could be identical in the retain variants given the sheer differences in scores, which can improve only so much after driver optimization.

Generation-over-generation gains are stellar for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy's Adreno 750 and Exynos 2400's Xclipse 940, with both chips outperforming their predecessors by a wide margin. Then again, Geekbench isn't the best GPU test around, as it doesn't stress the hardware for extended periods. Tests like 3DMark Wild Life should better show how either GPU will perform under a gaming load.

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