Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim runs Geekbench, disappoints
On January 22 Samsung is announcing four Galaxy S25 models. The Galaxy S25 Slim is rumored to join the unsurprising S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra with slimness obviously being its main selling point.
Today a prototype Galaxy S25 Slim has been spotted in the Geekbench online results database. Specifically, it's the model headed to North America - the SM-S937U.
It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC paired with 12GB of RAM, and runs Android 15 with One UI 7 on top. As you can see in the screenshot above, it managed a single-core score of 3,005 and a multi-core score of 6,945.
That's a very low multi-core score for this chipset which generally goes up to the high 9,000s, but we do usually caution you not to take benchmark scores by prototype devices very seriously. That said, on this occasion we can't help but wonder whether the S25 Slim's thinness may be negatively impacting its heat dissipation capability to such a big extent.
Whether that theoretical compromise is worth it or not remains to be seen - the Galaxy S25 Slim is rumored to be under 7mm thin, and that will undoubtedly create a striking look. Until you go ahead and put a case on it, that is.
Reader comments
According to Nanoreview, the Snapdragon 845, which was released 7 years ago, has comparable performance to a Snapdragon 4 Gen 1. That’s still a perfectly usable (if not a little slow) chip for 2025, and some new phones like the Moto G 2024 still use ...
- 12 Jan 2025
- IbJ
How so? Most tasks are single threaded. There are people now using Helio G99 today and think the phone performs fine. SD8 Elite will perform fine 7 years from now. The question that should be asked is whether Samsung would still stock the battery ...
- 12 Jan 2025
- AA8
Right now, basically nothing other than heavy gaming and video editing. But in 7 years when this phone is running Android 22, the S25 slim is gonna start showing its age more than the other s25 phones
- 12 Jan 2025
- IbJ