The first Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks have cropped up online, and there’s both good and slightly concerning news for Samsung’s super-skinny smartphone.
As spotted by My Smart Price, a device with the model name ‘Samsung SM-S937B’ has appeared on the widely used Geekbench 6 benchmark tool.
This has been identified as the global model of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s much anticipated ‘slim’ model which hasn’t been fully announced yet.
What we learn from the Galaxy S25 Edge benchmarks
First things first, the mere fact that the Galaxy S25 Edge is now out in the wild being benchmarked suggests that a release isn’t far off. The latest reports claim that it could arrive as soon as April.
More importantly, the benchmark result confirms that Samsung is going all out on the component front. We now know that the Galaxy S25 Edge is indeed getting the same Snapdragon 8 Elite chip as the rest of the Galaxy S25 family.
It also confirms that Qualcomm’s top chip will be backed by 12GB of RAM – again, just like every other member of the Galaxy S25 family.
However, the benchmark result itself gives me pause.
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Why I’m just a tad concerned
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge here attains a single-core score of 2806 and a multi-core score of 8416. That’s a decent enough result, but it falls notably short of the rest of the Galaxy S25 range – and indeed other phones running on the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
For example, our reviewer had the Galaxy S25 scoring 9404 in Geekbench 6’s multi-core test, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra scoring a similar 9413. That’s around a 12% deficit for Samsung’s slender new phone.
There’s a chance this just comes down to early hardware that hasn’t been fully optimised yet. It’s not unusual to get several performance-tweaking firmware updates around the time of a phone’s launch.
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However, it could also point to the phone’s unusually slim dimensions (possibly just 6.4mm) causing performance issues. Samsung will have had to use a much thinner thermal dissipation solution in the Galaxy S25 Edge, and it may be that it simply doesn’t have enough cooling power to run the Snapdragon 8 Elite at full whack.
The chip may have been down-clocked as a result and what happens over a much longer real-life gaming situation is a worry.
Whatever the case, the Galaxy S25 Edge is likely to perform smoothly and efficiently for day-to-day tasks. But there’s a chance it’ll be the runt of the S25 litter – and we don’t just mean its slim waistline.
For a device that could cost north of £1,000, that wouldn’t be a great look.
