Samsung Galaxy S24 FE's Exynos 2400e benchmark tests are in

Peter, 01 October 2024

Chipset prices are getting out of control and companies are looking for some cheaper alternatives. The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is an interesting case – Samsung chose an in-house chip, but not the same that is found in Galaxy S24 and S24+ phones in some parts of the world. Instead, it used the Exynos 2400e.

Samsung is keeping most details under wraps, but it did confirm that the prime Cortex-X4 core is clocked at up to 3.1GHz instead of the 3.2GHz that the regular 2400 chip does. However, the other CPU clusters are the same - 2x Cortex-A720 @ 2.90GHz, 3x A720 @ 2.59GHz and 4x A520 @ 1.96GHz.

Now, peak clock speed matters for bursty workloads (e.g. launching an app) and not so much for sustained performance (like gaming). No word on the Xclipse 940 GPU clocks either.

Benchmarking the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE

A deeper investigation will be conducted for the full review, but right now we got to run some CPU and GPU benchmarks – here is the first look at what the Galaxy S24 FE is capable of.

Starting with Geekbench, this is a 10-core CPU with a mix of 1x Cortex-X4, 5x A720 and 2x A520. In multi-core performance, it is certainly a strong contender. We’ve included the Galaxy S24+ as the phone is the same size but uses the full-fat Exynos 2400. The difference is tiny to say the least.

The Xiaomi 14T Pro uses the Dimensity 9300+, which has not one but four Cortex-X4 cores. It pulls slightly ahead, but only slightly. Then there is the Galaxy S23 FE from last year – even though it is only a year old, it used two-year old chipsets (Exynos 2200 or Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, we’ve included both). The 70% performance boost from the new model is impressive.

Flipping over to the single-core test, that 0.1GHz difference between the Exynos 2400 and 2400e should be felt most strongly here. And yet it basically doesn’t matter. The 14T Pro has its prime Cortex-X4 running at up to 3.4GHz, but its score is only 4% higher. The Pixel 9 Pro XL, a $1,200 flagship whose Tensor G4 chip shares pedigree with the Exynos, falls behind in both tests.

GeekBench 6

Multi-core
Single-core

iPhone 16 Plus

7809

Apple A18 128GB, 8GB RAM

Xiaomi 14T Pro

7081

Dimensity 9300+ 1TB, 12GB RAM

Galaxy S24 Ultra

7076

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SM8650-AC 512GB, 12GB RAM

Galaxy S24+

6926

Exynos 2400 512GB, 12GB RAM

Galaxy S24 FE

6711

Exynos 2400e 128GB, 8GB

Pixel 9 Pro XL

4854

Google Tensor G4 128GB, 16GB RAM

Galaxy S23 FE (Exynos)

3964

Exynos 2200 128GB, 8GB RAM

Galaxy S23 FE (Snapdragon)

3947

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 128GB, 8GB RAM

Galaxy A55

3350

Exynos 1480 128GB, 8GB RAM

Next, we will look at the GPU. The Xclipse 940 is an AMD RDNA 3 design and has proven to be quite powerful. Not as powerful as the Adreno 750 inside the Snapdragon-powered Galaxy S24 Ultra, but still. And it blows the old S23 FE out of the water.

A more interesting comparison is with the iPhone 16 Plus. It’s no flagship, but Apple does charge $900 for it – while a Galaxy S24 FE will only set you back $650. The iPhone pulls ahead by around 4% in the Wild Life Extreme test, but loses by 23% in the Solar Bay test. Solar Bay is a ray tracing test – did we mention that the AMD GPU has hardware acceleration for that? So does the Apple A18 chip, but Apple’s GPU lags behind (the A18 Pro is faster than the A18 in this test, but still behind the Exynos 2400e).

3DMark (offscreen)

Wild Life Extreme (2160p)
Solar Bay (1440p)

Galaxy S24 Ultra

4983

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SM8650-AC Adreno 750 1440 x 3120 px

Galaxy S24+

4365

Exynos 2400 Xclipse 940 1440 x 3120 px

iPhone 16 Plus

4029

Apple A18 Apple GPU (5-core) 1290 x 2796 px

Xiaomi 14T Pro

3998

Dimensity 9300+ Immortalis-G720 MC12 1220 x 2712 px

Galaxy S24 FE

3870

Exynos 2400e Xclipse 940 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy S23 FE (Snapdragon)

2557

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2340 px

Pixel 9 Pro XL

2540

Google Tensor G4 Mali-G715 MC7 1280 x 2856 px

Galaxy S23 FE (Exynos)

2356

Exynos 2200 Xclipse 920 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy A55

1024

Exynos 1480 Xclipse 530 1080 x 2340 px

The Exynos 2400e is shaping up to be an interesting chipset – you get 90%-95% of the performance of the Exynos 2400 and you pay less for it. Again, the Galaxy S24 FE launches at $650 for an 8/128GB phone, while a Galaxy S24 (8/128GB) with the non-e chip was $800 at launch and the S24+ (12/256GB) was $1,000.

The reduced clock speeds might have an effect on power usage – here the S24 FE is at a small disadvantage with a 4,700mAh battery compared to 4,900mAh on the S24+. That’s something that we will test during the review process.

And we will be running more benchmarks and doing other tests too. Samsung claims it has improved the cooling compared to the S23 FE (the vapor chamber is 10% larger – not much, but it’s something). We will have more to share once we get back to the office.