Samsung Galaxy S24 FE review

One UI 6.1 based on Android 14

The Galaxy S24 FE is launching with Android 14 and OneUI 6.1 out of the box (not great timing as Android 15 is around the corner). The good news is that the FE is getting the flagship treatment, will be updated through 7 OS generations and will receive security patches for 7 years.

One UI 6.1 was introduced with the Galaxy S24 series. The Galaxy S24 FE gets all of the features Samsung's custom overlay has to offer, including DeX.

One UI on Galaxy S24 FE

We've covered the latest version of One UI extensively in our dedicated review.

The AI features are part of the Galaxy S24 FE software suite. They include the usual Galaxy AI options. Circle to Search is a handy way to look things up on Google (long-press the home button and circle the thing you are interested in). Live Translate is a voice translation for calls and is now supported in select third-party apps. The interpreter is what you use when you need translation in person. Composer is a Samsung Keyboard feature that allows you to write email and social network posts based on a few keywords. Note Assist automates the formatting of notes, transcription, and summarization of voice recordings, and it can translate PDFs.

Galaxy AI feautures on the S24 FE

One of the footnotes in the official press release for the S24 FE explicitly mentions that "Fees may apply to certain AI features at the end of 2025." Samsung previously confirmed that "Galaxy AI features will be provided for free until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices", so it is safe to assume that using Samsung's AI suite, or certain parts of it, will, in fact, require a payment from next year.

Performance and benchmarks

The Galaxy S24 FE uses Samsung's in-house chip - the Exynos 2400e - which is not exactly the same as the Exynos 2400 found in Galaxy S24 and S24+ phones in some parts of the world.

This chipset is still built on a 4nm node and has a 10-core processor. The CPU is a mix of 1x Cortex-X4, 5x A720 and 2x A520. The X4 core has a bit lower clock (3.1GHz vs 3.2GHz).

The Xclipse 940 GPU is the same as the one inside the Exynos 2400 - it is an AMD RDNA 3 design and has proven to be quite powerful.

The Galaxy S24 FE has 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and you can choose between 128GB and 256GB of UFS storage for the international version.

The Galaxy S24 FE chip scores near the top of all charts, proving the Exynos 2400e is a flagship-grade system.

The stability of the Exynos chipset under a passive cooling solution (aka a heatsink) is still unchanged since the Galaxy S23 FE and S24+ and is rather unimpressive. The S24 FE CPU scored 52% in CPU and 50% in GPU stability.

3D Mark GPU stress test • CPU throttling test

The Galaxy S24 FE does not become hot; it is just warm even after prolonged stress tests.

Overall, the Galaxy S24 FE has a flagship-grade performance and easily handles games and benchmarks. The only real issue here is the sustained performance - which usually drops at 50% when the phone uses the maximum of its hardware for more than 10 minutes. Then again, no mainstream game or app will do such a thing in real life, so for most intents and purposes - the Galaxy S24 FE is a powerhouse.