Enthusiasts eagerly await the Galaxy S23-line's keynote, and the rumor mill is actively reporting on Samsung's moves to keep the tech channels on their toes. Following the tradition, the Galaxy S22 line successors might break cover in the starting months of 2023. There's no official word, however.
It appears that the compact Samsung Galaxy S23 just got indexed on the Geekbech database, unveiling some of its crucial specs, nay the entire lineup. As usual, the listing ratted out the phone's model number, CPU specs, performance scores, GPU, RAM, and Android version. Let's take a look.
It is important to note that the model number on the list corresponds to the US-based Galaxy S23 variant, indicating a Snapdragon Chipset in the respective market instead of an Exynos. Codenamed Kalama, the motherboard on this phone, evidently features the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, the prospective leading SoC of 2023.
The SoC has eight cores. One is the alpha performance core clocked at 3.36GHz; four are efficiency cores clocked at 2.80GHz, and the rest are baseline cores clocked at 2.02GHz. The chipset on the upcoming addition to the Samsung price catalog will go toe-to-toe with Apple's most potent A16 smartphone silicon. The integrated GPU performer will be Adreno 740.
With the SoC, we should see 8GB of RAM and Android 13-based OneUI 5 paired with 128GB of storage. The extended variant will score 12Gigs of RAM with 256GB of storage.
Taking a look at the performance scores, the Galaxy S23 scores 1524 points in the single-core test and 4597 points in the multi-core test. The scores are almost as good as A16 on iPhone 14 Pros. And that about wraps up the Geekbench's specs. It's the start of a long parade of leaks and discoveries, and more details are bound to surface. We'll keep you posted on everything.