TECH NEWS – The slimmed-down model in the Samsung Galaxy S25 series may be powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite, but it can’t keep up with its three siblings.

Later this month, Samsung will unveil its Galaxy S25 product family, which will include four handsets, and the South Korean company will use the name Slim for the first time. The benchmark leak is proof of this, as this is how devices are tested before they’re launched. From this leak we learn that the Galaxy S25 Slim will use Qualcomm’s latest and most powerful chipset.

On the surface, it’s impressive that it also has performance-oriented cores at a slightly higher clock speed, but there’s a downside. The benchmark results are terrible.

The Galaxy SS25 Slim has the model number SM-S937U, and like the basic Galaxy S25, it has 12 GB of RAM. The two performance-oriented cores of the Snapdragon 8 Elite run at 4.47 GHz, while the efficiency-oriented cores run at 3.53 GHz. The internals are unchanged from the other models, but rumors suggest that the top model, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, will get 16 GB of RAM instead of 12.

According to Geekbench 6, the Galaxy S25 Slim has a single-core score of 3005, which is better than the base S25 according to previous leaks. Yes, but the multi-core score is disappointing: 6945 points. Here we can see that the Galaxy S25 Slim is held back by its thinness. The Snapdragon 8 Elite gets hot too quickly and doesn’t perform well. In fact, the software was never designed to show long-term performance, but it does show what the hardware can do when it’s under full load for a few seconds.

So if you’re looking for a phone that can deliver high performance and isn’t held back by its weight/size, don’t go for the Galaxy S25 Slim, which Samsung will announce at the Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for January 22.

Source: WCCFTech