The first Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks have surfaced online, with both positive and slightly troubling news for Samsung’s ultra-thin smartphone.
According to My Smart Price, a gadget with the model name ‘Samsung SM-S937B’ has appeared on the popular Geekbench 6 benchmarking tool.
This has been recognized as the global model of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s much anticipated slim device that has yet to be officially released.
What we learn from the Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks
First and foremost, the fact that the Galaxy S25 Edge is now being benchmarked signals that a release is imminent. According to the latest reports, it might arrive as early as April.
More importantly, the benchmark results demonstrate that Samsung is going all out on component development. We now know that the Galaxy S25 Edge will use the same Snapdragon 8 Elite chip as the rest of the Galaxy S25 line.
It also reveals that Qualcomm’s top chip would be supported by 12GB of RAM, exactly as the rest of the Galaxy S25 family.
However, the benchmark result makes me pause.
Why I’m just a tad concerned
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge achieved a single-core score of 2806 and a multi-core score of 8416. That’s a great result, but it falls well short of the rest of the Galaxy S25 lineup – and also other phones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
For example, our tester scored the Galaxy S25 at 9404 in Geekbench 6’s multi-core test, whereas the Galaxy S25 Ultra scored 9413. That’s around a 12% drop for Samsung’s slim new phone.
There’s a chance this is merely due to early hardware that hasn’t been fully optimized yet. It is not uncommon to receive many performance-enhancing firmware updates around the time of a phone’s introduction.
However, it is also possible that the phone’s incredibly small dimensions (perhaps just 6.4mm) are causing performance concerns. Samsung will have had to utilize a significantly thinner thermal dissipation solution in the Galaxy S25 Edge, and it is possible that it lacks sufficient cooling power to run the Snapdragon 8 Elite at full throttle.
As a result, the chip may have been downclocked, and what occurs over a much longer period of real-world gameplay is concerning.
In any event, the Galaxy S25 Edge is expected to perform well in everyday chores. But there’s a chance it’ll be the runt of the S25 litter, and we’re not just talking about its small waistline.
That would not look good on a smartphone that may cost more than £1,000.
