Galaxy Z Fold5, Z Flip5, Watch6, Tab S9 hands-on review

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 synthetic benchmarks

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 in some clock frequencies. It has the X3, 2xA715, 2xA710, and 3xA510 Cortex CPU cores clocked at 3.36GHz, 2.8GHz, 2.8GHz, and 2.0GHz, and 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.

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.