Despite the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy running at higher clock speeds in the Galaxy S26 Ultra, our version ended up being up to 9 percent faster
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra recently made its single-core and multi-core run on Geekbench 6, and just like its predecessors, the flagship features an overclocked version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC. This time, it was the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, whose performance cores were running at 4.74GHz instead of the default 4.61GHz. Despite this small frequency bump, our single-core and multi-core results are shown to be higher, which obviously makes us question a few things, starting with whether there’s any advantage to Samsung shipping its premium devices with a slightly faster chipset.An active cooling solution coupled with the diminishing returns of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 running at higher clock speeds could be why the Galaxy S26 Ultra was slower than our flagship
Two advantages our REDMAGIC 11 Pro had were liquid cooling and a fan, which might have provided just enough push to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to overtake the overclocked version running in the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
