Snapdragon vs Exynos - GALAXY S24 Plus vs S24 Ultra! 

Hey Chaps! Would an Exynos S24/S24+ put you off buying it?? NOTE: while an s24+ vs s24+ video is worth making too - THIS is about whether a Snapdragon S24 Ultra is worth it over a Exynos S24+ (in terms of the chips) 👍

It would be fair to have both s24+ models, one europe one and one from the US. The S24 Ultra has better cooling, bigger battery etc.

you should get 200-300$ discount for getting extnos vs snapdragon for the same model

The thing that happened at 4:08 isn't a concidence. That's exactly the type of experience I had with my Exynos-based S22 Ultra, and it was a constant issue for 7 months of use! Lack of app optimisation, constant OS stutters, mediocre battery and worse ISP are still a thing, even if the raw performance caught up a bit to the Snapdragon. It's still a sham to sell a DIFFERENT device under the same name. Exynos is a NO GO.

If the exynos versions were sold for less maybe but to be paying prettyuch the same for an inferior product is just not acceptable

I imported my S21 from the US to the UK because I wanted the Snapdragon, it happened to actually be cheaper than the EU/INT version. Can confirm I have had zero problems with signal/ networks 4/5g... etc. have traveled to Mainland Europe, Africa, East Asia, and the Middle east with the device and had no issues there either. Ive not regretted it one bit.

The S24+ looks like a better deal than the Ultra being £250 cheaper but having the Exynos chip instead of the Snapdragon makes it much less appealing, particularly in relation to battery life. I wouldn't buy it for that reason as, yet again, we're being short changed here in Europe/UK. 😠

I'm struggling to care about ray tracing on my PC... Surely, no one is bothered about ray tracing on a phone?

FYI: Premiere rush does NOT work with exynos. It hasnt for a long time

The difference in battery life left at the end is quite shocking actually....

Always had problems with Exynos in S6 Edge, S8 and S20, and was finally so pleased with S23 and its optimised Snapdragon. No way I would take a step back to Exynos. I've been quite loyal to Samsung, but Exynos is now a deal breaker.

Currently watching on my S24 plus with exynoss(region limited), and extremely happy with it. Upgraded from my S10 plus which was getting very slow, and had a 30% degraded battery

Loving my Exynos 2400 S24 here in the UK 😊 The Amber yellow colour I went for. Don't succumb to the mass hysteria regarding Exynos my G's. Everything works perfectly to perfection 😊 I tested & thrown everything on it - sustainability, stability, raw performance, general performance, games, production media apps etc. All good, everything checks out, top level, Top Tier SOC & it will only get better with optimisation/updates 😊 I also have the 24 Ultra but it will be the secondary phone kept at home mainly for media. I could have bought any phone available with any SOC I wanted etc. yet I purposely picked the standard S24 as my main phone 😊 Compact yet powerful enough for everyday use. Good camera (especially with the Expert Raw app that's available only on the newer Galaxy's) Good level screen, decent battery life, future proof & more.

Good video, but sadly there are multiple caveats in your video. I think your S24+ was not done with the setup process as can be seen when it is chugging. Secondly, you should have directly compared it to an equivalent Snapdragon S24+ because the Ultra has a larger vapour chamber and larger surface area and titanium which conducts heat better. Also, multiple other reviews have shown the Exynos outperforming the Snapdragon in terms of raw performance, battery life and temps. You stating that the Snapdragon is a 3/3 winner in benchmarks looks like it’s a runaway winner but that could well be up to the silicon lottery and a 2-5% difference is not enough to conclusively give away a winner when there are multiple variables other than the chipset affecting the results. Also Adobe Rush has been known to optimised notoriously. For years it only ran well on iPhones, now Snapdragon as well, so I don’t think that was a fair real world comparison. You should’ve run the 30 min CPU throttle test as well which would have pushed the cpu to its absolute most to see which one overheats first or throttles performance to give us a better picture of stability side by side. I think this video could’ve been much more comprehensive if you didn’t rush into making it as soon as possible and took a little more time to research and then test both the phones. I think that would’ve provided a much more realistic and fair comparison between the chipsets.

Can you do a comparison between the s23 snapdragon 8 gen 2 and this exynos 2400? Anyway great video man

Nice review thank you very much! For me it was never about performance. Battery life and those stutters you had in the review video were the main issues with the S22 Exynos and here in your video, I see the same issues again. And that worries me. Even with the S22, there were big differences between the Exynos 2200 itself, probably because Samsung couldn't ramp up production fast enough and had to increase the tolerance for chips that were deemed OK. So there were people who had hardly any problems with their Exynos 2200 or people like me who had an overheating piece of lame technology that ran out of breath after 3-4 hours of screen-on-time (moderate use). I already had the suspicion back then that Samsung had issued review devices that had particularly good performance in QA. And I assume exactly the same pattern here again. So I'll definitely wait and see what the buyers report before I even consider an Exynos ever again.

If both chips were the same, Samsung would have used the Exynos in the Ultra. The fact they didn't tells you all you need to know.

Please compare s24 regular Exynos and Snapdragon versions. Battery life is vital for a huge amount of people

It's not even about what processor has less or more power, it's about Samsung selling devices with different hardware, but named the same. There is no free choice, you're stuck with whatever Samsung decided is ok for your region. That should not be acceptable in this price range !

The discrepancy in some of the benchmark tests can at least partially be attributed to the larger vapor chamber in the S24U, which helps with managing heat and decreasing throttling. I'm in Canada, so I get the SD version, but I wouldn't worry too much if I got the Exynos version tbh, especially since Samsung use that version in South Korea itself.

4:25 Hate Exynos (and a happy S23U user) - but I think the phone setup wasn't quite done yet (there's a notification he swiped away when you look carefully)... so that might explain it

I was really waiting particularly for your video, but I was definitely expecting a direct comparison with S24+ Exynos with equivalent S24+ Snapdragon. S24 Ultra and S24+ are different phones at this point. While it's still a good video, I was a bit surprised and I don't think it's that accurate. Also I was hoping for some in depth battery comparison

Upgraded from s23+ sd gen2. To s24+ exynos. I was skeptical about the performance .. but after using it since it for 1 week ... samsung really improved this tym much better ui ... super fast app opening great at gaming and definitely improved battery life one thing is for sure it might be running 2-3 c° hotter than s23+ in under heavy load. .. and also while setting up the phone for 1st tym it will throttle but after one day it comes back to normal and never faced any issue .. it might be the same reason of laggy performance your phone setup was still not finished yet

My main concern is how they perform with respect to cellular connectivity, but I understand that it's not easy to test it. I would love to see real world tests about whether the speed is consistent, or if calls drop.

The Exynos 2400 is a huge improvement, and better than I expected it to be given how disappointing the 2200 was. Sure, it may not be up to par with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in some areas, but it's still a solid performer no matter how you look at it. If I were buying an S24/S24+ outside of the US, it wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me. On a side note, I really hope the Tensor G4 ends up being a modified version of the Exynos 2400. I know raw performance isn't what the Pixel is all about, but the Tensor G3 barely keeps up with an 8+ Gen 1 and gets absolutely destroyed by the 8 Gen 3. I wouldn't care so much if the Pixel 8 could handle normal tasks without breaking a sweat, but in my experience, it struggles at times when it really shouldn't. Want to take 48/50MP photos? You better have a tripod because you have to hold the phone still for a few seconds while it takes the shot (even in good lighting). I haven't seen that kind of processing lag while taking photos since my old SD865 OnePlus 8T, and it's something they absolutely need to fix with the Pixel 9. /off topic rant

The real fair comparison would be S24+ Exynos vs S24+ Snapdragon. Ultra has bigger refrigeration system.

Hey. Could be interesting to stress test exynos s24+ v Snapdragon s23+ (Since s23 series were all Snapdragon globally) to see if in real world Exynos has caught up (i.e Heat management)

Im impressed with the Exynos 2400, its better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in last year's S23U which is more surprising in the generational improvements. I think its software support since Qualcomm definitely has more developers; when it boils down to CPU scheduling 10c vs 8c only works well if the software is up to snuff ( looking at you intel P + E cores) owing to the fact Android is optimized for Qualcomm with 6 to 8 cores being the standard. Really the GPU is fascinating because it shows a real maturity of Exynos + AMD architecture with substantial efficiency during ray tracing and better frames per watt. I have a feeling the weird chugging slowdown had to do with how the CPU and GPU drivers were interacting

Chips have come to a point where performance difference is barely noticeable in real world usage but the battery optimization is what matters most and the Exynos is bad at it and that is my personal experience. Mediatek has made a significant improvement with their Dimensity chips. Samsung needs to put in more work and people would trust Exynos more if they made it so good that they themselves trust it by putting it in the Ultra.

I care, i will not pay a premium for a lesser chip. I bought the S24 ultra, but if it wouldve have the exynos then I would have picked the S23 ultra.

I didn't expect tech RU-vidr to make videos and incite people without setting up

I've used my S20+ (UK) since launch and have only ever had the one crash, i just dont see what the problem is. Having just upgraded to the S24+ i have zero anxiety regarding it's performance going forward. The device is lush, the only thing i was apprehensive about was the slight drop in pixel density but the screen is looking good. Not at all bothered about the chip not being a Snapdragon.

The main question everyone is looking for is actually if Exynos 2400 performs better than the Snapdragon 8 gen 2, and not just in gaming experience but overall battery efficiency, temperatures and so on. It's pretty obvious that gen 3 will be superior, but most people wanna know if they should just get an S23 or S24 at that point. (Me included) I can't choose between S23 Plus/Ultra and S24 Plus (S24 Ultra is gonna be too expensive in my case)

4:25 Even after the restart the Ui on the Exynos s24+ is just lagging, this is not good for a $1000 smartphone, the international market just got short changed and comparing that saying that its 250 bucks cheaper than the s24 Ultra doesn't justify it 😶

When I saw Exynos, the plus and base models were hard no's even though the ultra is a bit of a financial stretch. €1.5k is really expensive. I know about the deals but still. I've used Exynos on S22 ultra. It was really disappointing for me. Everyone else (US) going on about great battery, great performance etc. Mine just really did not do well. I slowly began to hate it. Used them even before S22U. Only loved the N20U except battery life. It will take a lot for Exynos to redeem itself for me. Great vid Tom. Love from Ireland ❤

Thank you, but what about modem performance? There's a lot of complaints about Exynos call reception issues and excessive battery drain with mobile data usage (especially with 5G enabled).

Why didn't you wait til the S24+ finish all the set up process? It's not a fair comparison in the first place since you use S24U vs. S24+ (it shoud be S24+ vs S24+, aye?) and then you choose to test them both while only the S24+ still installing all the set up things? 🤔🤔🤔

As long as the exynos don't struggle to scroll timelines, swap apps or do random slowdowns like the one in the video I think it's fine. If I could pay like $50 more for the snapdragon in the same for factor then sure, but the ultra is completely different imo.

My eyes were rather focused on battery numbers difference... at first it was only 2% difference but with each further test the difference started to grow which did not change the problem of exynos power consumption

Thank you for your thoughts on this matter, I currently have S22+ as my daily driver for few months now and I am looking for some comparison with the exynos and snapdragon. I've seen gaming tests as well. I guess I'll have to wait few more months before deciding if I should go with the last year's S23+ or consider the s24+ with exynos because that's what we have in my country or just go with the Ultra.

Samsung should put this chip into A75 or possibly A95, but not on the S series

Other Regular SDgen3 benchmark is minimum 2 million in score.. but this special “For Galaxy” edition is Lower??! I think they just under clocked it so the exynos version doesn’t look too bad.. not as efficient and lagging exynos for a $1000 is so not acceptable..

I got my s24 Exynos in Australian from last 2 days and there is no heating issue at all and phone is blazing fast no problem at all and battery seems to be good is well

Hello Chaps, I live in Canada and the only exynos I have is for the s23fe. I now use the s24 ultra with the snapdragon chip. But I don't see any deficiency in the s23fe so the exynos isn't always a bad chipset

i think you should do the benchmark multiple times to truly see the performance and sustainability of them both

I know exynos is worse than snapdragon But you had to conduct a test after finishing setting-up

Was waiting for the video. Great job!

I live in the Exynos region. I have the Galaxy S10 Exynos version and bought the S23 last year. Glad I bought the S23 that uses the SD 8 Gen 2.

Hi tom I think it would be better if this review is done between plus variant due to ultra has bigger cooling and it even physically bigger which would released heat faster from the phone and also titanium resistance to heat is different from aluminium thank you...

I thought the SD will be better but...S24 with Exynos gave about 90min of battery life for the last 10% battery which is way more than 45min of life from earlier S23U that I had checked. The last 5% lasted about 50min on S24 against just 15-20min on S23U.

Great video ❤❤❤❤. Thank you man❤❤

Good video , NL tech did a good comparison on these as well

I had same problems on my s22 ultra Exynos i mean random freezing till i had to restart... guys just get s23 variants with snapdragon instead of s24

This is actually surprising. That 10% difference is due to better cooling and larger body overall. So it is a tie. For example sd8+gen1 device with proper cooling is equal to sd8 gen2 with so so cooling in a smaller body.

4:24 mark, Your Exynos is still setting up, hence lag, says right there on the notification panel. I also see the gear icon when you run the video export.

Thank you for the comparison! Btw, Do u have information on PWM level for S24+ display on minimum brightness ? Please share if u do. Thanks

Snapdragon is better.

Why is Samsung doing this again? The S23 has the Snapdragon globally.

My old phone A52 is almost done (dropped it too many times :) ), it was my only non series-S Samsung phone, but it had snapdragon processor and I was quite satisfied with it, especially for the price I paid. Now I planned to get back to S, but seems like I will have to turn to other manufacturers for flagship quality. Seems too sketchy that I have to pay flagship price and still make compromises while knowing that somewhere else in the world people don't. And I don't want to buy Ultra, I had Note before and I never got used to the pen, I just don't need that thing in my phone. After almost 14 years of exclusive Samsung phone usage, looks like it's time for a change. Any recommendations?

Living in Belgium i still ordered the S24+. Even with the Exynos it was just to damn low of a price to leave it. €315/$342. But if i notice that the battery is disappointing compared to my S23+, then i will trade in the S24+ again for the S23+ or maybe OP12.

For SD 8 Gen 3 test, I would expect you to use S24 plus instead of Ultra

Samsung will need to be consistently better than Qualcomm for two to three consecutive years for anyone to depend on them. We just can't trust them enough yet.

This Exynos 2400 is the best ever. It is no different from Qualcomm's Snapdragon 3. Samsung doesn't betray either.

Great look at the phone it’d be interesting to see a comparison of this version with the Samsung chip versus a snapdragon chip

Nice, Ultra is better for harder to run apps but in general they are way closer to each other than they used to be. They did a nice job :)

could we get an s23 vs s24 ?

How did you get the S24 before its release?

Video rendering aside differences were negligible. Exynos looks fine. They both use more power and throttle more than the Snapdragon 8 gen 2. Also Samsung phones tend to chug when the setup process isn't complete like in your S24+.

6:23 The vapour chamber on the Plus is smaller. If you can import the Snapdragon S24+ do and run the test again. 7:02 Some of the AI features are on device on the S24, but I would think all features would run off the cloud on older/lower-end devices.

I don’t understand why exynos still exists

Great review, I am trying to decide which I am going to buy. And also, thank god you measure temperature in Celsius

upgrade from s20+ s865 to s24+ exynos, i encounter no laggy problem, i sometimes do some light gaming on it, still runs very well on everything, battery is fine, 6 hours outside battery down from 100-66%, I am happy not need to pay extra 250 just to get a ugly chunky heavy brick.

I'm happy with the improvement with the exynos. This means that the pixel 9 series MAY get the performance boost we need 😅

Would've been much better if there was a Snapdragon 8 gen 3 from another brand to see how Samsung's 8 gen 3 performance stacks up. Whether Samsung has nerfed the 8 Gen 3 on the S24 Ultra to make the Exynos looks less mediocre.

Love it. Thank you for the video

Please do a comparison with a retail S24U bought in your region where the S24/S24+ have Exynos AND a retail S24U from the USA. In the past in 'mixed' regions it seemed like Samsung played with the software on the Ultra models so they didn't blow away the Exynos. So it would be very interesting to see if the S24U - USA version outperforms the S24U 'world' version.

Compare an SD 8G3 S24+ with the Exynos one. The S24U has a large chassis and a beefy Vapour Chamber. I dunno about you guys. I'll never get an Exynos. Overheating + Garbage Battery + Sluggish and inferior performance are here to stay. This is a blunder. Samsung fucked up a good chance. 7 years of OS Updates would've boosted the S24 and Plus' sales.

That gpu on both tho 💀 My iphone 12 pro max is 16450 Snapdragon is really close but it still needs a big jump towards bionic

Hi Tom love your videos, but this one should have been done using a S24+ Snapdradon model as S24 Ultra has larger Vapor Chamber

Always stability and battery. That gives the better performance needed

I pre-ordered the S24 Plus (exynos) and I'm excited! Upgrade from S20 FE :D

Actually, this year seems a good year to skip Samsung phones all together and look for alternatives. Exy is just scam. After looking at many benchmarks and battery tests. I would recommand Redmagic 9 pro. Cheaper and has been very well received. Ofcourse, SnapGen3 phone. Anything else is inferior.

I currently use a Op9 Pro with it's Snapdragon 888 and it still is going strong. I do not experience any major stutters or lags so I guess both, the Snapdragen 8 gen 3 and the Exynos will be finde for me and probably most other users too 😄

Animations are sometimes a bit laggy on my new s24+. I'm sure there's gonna be a software update improvement. Its a new cpu. Apps will be optimized better.

Loving my S24+ 512GB Exynos. Feels like a massive upgrade from my S22.

Exynos sucks! 🤮

Well ive had the s24 only for a day so can't say much... But the cameras are definitely a leap ahead of the s23 I had which I sold in a month coz of those camera's... Decided to give Samsung another shot with this, and seriously the cameras are very good... I don't know if it's this chip, coz there's a lot of AI post processing just like on my pixel 8 which I might sell coz the hardware on that keeps failing on me, microphone isnt working now... But yes s24 has learnt something from tensor I guess and there's a lot more AI than was on the SD gen2 on s23... Everything seems more refined and looks better specially the photos... They are like an altogether different output than any of the Samsung s series phones I've had... Yes the battery though been only 1 day I see is not as good as the pixel... But that might improve... I'm at 36% already and its only 4pm.. Phone doesn't heat or throttle as of now... was using it all morning in hot Indian sunlight taking pictures at a zoo... 👍 from me for this phone... It's a pretty good phone that has a lot of AI stuff happening just like the pixel... Taking a leaf from their book I guess...

That slowdown on a exynos - I encountered it on a S24 ultra and was seriously surprized

That lagspike on exynos seems terribly familiar, think my S22 ultra has been stuck with it since it was born. Exynos is as always a trash chip it seems.

So, for a day I got to use both the Exynos and Snapdragon S24+ from a seller and yep, it's the same old story. Sd8gen3 has better thermals, less battery drain, less idle/stand-by battery drain, a bit better network and 5G range. Initially, both the Exynos and SD will perform equally well in gaming but after 20mins+ the Exynos starts dropping frames and also heats up more.... doesn't overheat tho. (Tested only Genshin Impact). Also, it seems that the ISP is again superior on SD. In low-light, the SD variant takes more detailed and less noisy photos, the videos are more detailed. The colours and contrast too seem slightly better on SD but it's negligible I guess. The Exynos needs optimization it seems but the gap will still remain. So even though the Exynos shows equivalent numbers in synthetic benchmarks, in reality the Sd8gen3 simply performs better. As Samsung is taking help from Google, it seems that AI processing isn't an issue irrespective of the soc. But yeah, Sd8gen3 is a better chip but the Exynos 2400 has improved greatly. *PS:* As per local sellers, they import SD variants of Samsung as people demand those more even in grey-markets 🗿 Cheers 🥂

4:28 the thing.. whatever it is.. I use an s21 Exynos and that thing happens a lot.. sluggish experience... And I was very confused to buy s24 plus and I order ultra today, pushing myself a bit. And after all this.. I can say don't ever go for Exynos

What about picture quality comparisok between the s24+ and ultra?

I shall say, although the S24+ consumed a bit more battery in this test, it was running the games at significantly higher frame rates. In war thunder you had 70 fps on the Ultra, while the S24+ was getting over 100 fps. So you got more performance out of the phone. If the frame rate was capped to match it between the devices, I would argue that the battery consumption would have been more equal.

Awesome content and video comprision as always chaps bro

4:29 after the restart notice the lag when the exynos is going from the home screen to the Google side screen.

It would be interesting to see S22U how it performs in Ray Tracing.

Why have Samsung done this? I thought they had seen the light with the S23 series

Exynos fanboys melting down. Wait when Tom compares the same models and see funny excuses they can create 😂

While its closer my issue is i will just never trust the optimisation on an exynos

Confirmed the history. Thanks for this detailed test. 👍