Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 benchmarked

George, 27 July 2023

Samsung's latest Unpacked unfolded yesterday, bringing us the Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5, alongside two smartwatches and three tablets. We had some early hands-on experiences with all of the new devices, but we also ended up with a couple of review units - one of each foldable. We snapped some photos with the Galaxy Z Fold5, before we got to running some benchmarks on the two handsets and it's those numbers that we're here to share now.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 benchmarked

Both the Flip and the Fold are equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy - the Samsung-specific version of Qualcomm's high-end chipset for 2023. The main difference (that meets the eye) in this version of the chip is that it has the X3, 2xA715, 2xA710, and 3xA510 Cortex CPU cores clocked at 3.36GHz, 2.8GHz, 2.8GHz, and 2.0GHz. It's that prime Cortex-X3 core that sets the CPU apart from the regular variant of the SoC, where it is clocked at 3.2GHz (technically, 3.19GHz).

We have started seeing the 3.36GHz spec on other phones recently (ZTE nubia Z50S Pro and Honor Magic V2, for example), so maybe Samsung's exclusivity on those special Snapdragons has expired.

The Adreno 740 GPU, meanwhile, is clocked at 719MHz in the Galaxies, compared to 680MHz in the bulk of the SD8G2-powered models.

As was the case with the Galaxy S23 phones, the foldables use LPDDR5X RAM. The Z Flip5 has 8GB of it, while the Z Fold5 ups that to 12GB. Storage options for the smaller phone are just two - 256GB and 512GB (no more 128GB version), while the Z Fold5 adds a 1TB option too. Our review units are both the 256GB spec.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5

Here's how the Galaxy Z Flip5 performed in these early benchmarking runs we did. The numbers are generally in line with what we got out of the Galaxy S23 in GeekBench and Antutu, though we did encounter unexpected discrepancies in some of the offscreen GFXBench tests that we'll need to look into during the course of the full review.

Geekbench 5

Multi-core
Single-core

Galaxy Z Flip5

4984

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM

Galaxy S23

4950

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM

vivo X Flip

3930

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 12GB RAM

Galaxy Z Flip4

3913

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 128GB, 8GB RAM

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

3645

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 8GB

Oppo Find N2 Flip

3265

Dimensity 9000+ 256GB, 8GB RAM

GeekBench 6

Multi-core
Single-core

Galaxy Z Flip5

5478

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM

Galaxy S23

5327

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM

Galaxy Z Flip4

4283

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 128GB, 8GB RAM

vivo X Flip

4255

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 12GB RAM

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

4045

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 8GB

AnTuTu

Galaxy S23

1231075

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy Z Flip5

1200783

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 256GB, 8GB RAM 1080 x 2640 px

vivo X Flip

1060911

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 12GB RAM 1080 x 2520 px

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

975461

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 256GB, 8GB 1080 x 2640 px

Galaxy Z Flip4

800001

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 128GB, 8GB RAM 1080 x 2640 px

Oppo Find N2 Flip

773574

Dimensity 9000+ 256GB, 8GB RAM 1080 x 2520 px

GFXBench (onscreen)

Aztek ES 3.1 High
Aztek Vulkan High
Car Chase ES 3.1
Manhattan ES 3.1

Galaxy S23

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy Z Flip5

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2640 px

Galaxy Z Flip4

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2640 px

Oppo Find N2 Flip

Dimensity 9000+ Mali-G710 MC10 1080 x 2520 px

vivo X Flip

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2520 px

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2640 px

GFXBench (offscreen)

Aztek ES 3.1 High 1440p
Aztek Vulkan High 1440p
Car Chase ES 3.1 1080p
Manhattan ES 3.1 1080p

Galaxy S23

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy Z Flip5

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2640 px

Galaxy Z Flip4

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2640 px

Oppo Find N2 Flip

Dimensity 9000+ Mali-G710 MC10 1080 x 2520 px

vivo X Flip

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2520 px

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2640 px

3DMark (offscreen 1440p) - Wild Life Extreme

Galaxy S23

3852

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2340 px

Galaxy Z Flip5

3816

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 Adreno 740 1080 x 2640 px

vivo X Flip

2774

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2520 px

Oppo Find N2 Flip

2623

Dimensity 9000+ Mali-G710 MC10 1080 x 2520 px

Motorola Razr 40 Ultra

2252

Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Adreno 730 1080 x 2640 px

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5

Moving on to the Z Fold5, we're observing the expected improvement over the Z Fold4 and overall solid numbers from Samsung's latest phone-turns-tablet. The vivo X Fold2 does manage to steal some narrow victories here or there, but it's not like the Samsung is lacking in oomph.