First Samsung Galaxy S25 Slim benchmark seemingly confirms Snapdragon 8 Elite processor

In case you needed actual evidence that the already highly anticipated Galaxy S25 Slim is real and not just the pipe dream of an increasing number of social media leakers and industry insiders, a hot new Samsung listing might prove to be exactly what you wished for this Christmas.

Assuming that this data is legit, we’re looking at the first scientific evaluation of the upcoming handset’s processing power, and in all honesty, I’m far from impressed.

A Snapdragon 8 Elite roughly on par with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3?

The S25 Slim’s first-ever benchmark includes both good and bad news, with the former undoubtedly being the apparent use of a state-of-the-art new Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC and the latter the underwhelming (or outright disappointing) performance scores of said processor.

The “Samsung SM-S937U” prototype put through the Geekbench paces on January 9, 2025 barely produced 3,005 single-core and 6,945 multi-core scores respectively, thus falling way short of what a “Samsung SM-S9380” device, for instance, was capable of less than two weeks ago, at least in the latter department.

The S25 Slim’s first benchmark scores are not what we all expected them to be.

Curiously enough, the SM-S9380, which is almost certainly the Galaxy S25 Ultra, and this presumed US-bound S25 Slim variant appear to share a “sun” motherboard and a top 4.47 GHz CPU clock speed that are both representative for the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

Even more bizarrely, that sub-7,000 result is more or less consistent with what Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered devices like the Galaxy S24 Ultra routinely obtain on this benchmarking platform. But that probably doesn’t mean that you should expect the Galaxy S25 Slim to pack that outdated high-end processor after all, and it almost surely doesn’t mean that the real-world performance difference between it and the S25 Ultra will be this substantial when both phones are eventually released.