Their Galaxy S25 series will use Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite; that much is beyond doubt. But how big of a difference will it make? We found a report in circulation that answers this particular question. Rumor has it that the Galaxy S25 trio has some new tricks for improved gaming.
Of course, this chip has a traditional advantage with a typical GPU and CPU performance boost that most other brands rely on. But Samsung is working on ways to upgrade the mobile gaming standard from 60 FPS to 120 FPS. This was unheard of until 8 Elite’s existence.
Qualcomm SD 8 Elite has an Adreno Frame Motion Engine (AFME 2.0) that the S25 series will use to override the locked 60 FPS games to run at 120 FPS via upscaling. It doubles the frames in-game without hitting the battery or GPU performance too hard.
Then we have a new Game Super Resolution feature Qualcomm introduced with 8 Elite and Samsung will probably use that as well, of course, accessible through Game Assist on the Samsung's future 5G handsets if the leak is true. These technologies are Qualcomm’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS.
Of course, Samsung will not be able to achieve anything close to SD 8 Elite’s features or performance with Exynos 2500, so the reports about the S25 series going all Snapdragon seem to have some weight. We also hear rumors that the trio will debut early in January, rather than the middle of the month like it used to.