It turns out that Samsung plans to keep the boundaries well-defined between its FE and S24 series. Giving both phones the same SoCs would’ve undermined the value of Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus. So out goes the Exynos 2400, and in comes the Exynos 2400e for Samsung Galaxy S24 FE.
Per the recent Geekbench report doing rounds on the web, Galaxy S24 FE onboards a 10-core CPU on a PCB designated ‘s5e9945.’ They benchmarked one of the SoC’s cores at 3.11GHz max clock frequency. Xclipse 940 is an iGPU from AMD that pulls the hard labor for graphics.
Geekbench tested an 8 GB RAM variant here. Combining the power of ten super-fast cores and 8 GB memory, Samsung's flagship budget phone got nearly 1625 and 5698 points for single and multiple cores, slightly under the performance of an Exynos 2400.
Reports on the internet advise that this underclocked version of the Exynos 2400 could be an Exynos 2400e (from Android Headlines). The original performs better due to its higher 3.2 GHz clock speed. But the new one downgrades to 3.11 GHz. Its real-world implications are only imaginable at this point.
On paper, though, the gap isn’t that significant. Another possible explanation for this change could be the heat management. FE won’t get the same premium cooling solution as the originals, so it will serve users better to lower clock speeds than high temperatures.
