Updated on December 18: article originally published on December 16.
As the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S24 family approaches, more attention is being paid to Samsung’s decisions around the heart of its new flagship smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
After Samsung’s decision to use a mix of Exynos and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system-on-chip, the community hoped that Samsung’s chipset would improve performance.
Update: Sunday, December 10. When all smartphones of 2024 introduce AI-based features, powerful specifications will be needed to offer a fast and smooth experience for native AI software. It also means that the software is in the best possible state.
Samsung will trust him Samsung recently announced its Gauss AI software for those practices expected to include photo editing tools, generative wallpaper, text generation and real-time translation. All of these and more need training data, and this weekend’s announcement of a partnership with the Korea Institute of Communication and Information Sciences is an important addition to the data sets.
The partnership offers Samsung 20,000 academic papers to train a generative model in Gaussian. It may not help with photo editing, but it certainly will help with a large language model that will support textual content created and summarized on the user’s device.
The better the equipment, the better the results. The comparison between the Exynos and Snapdragon chips will be critical as Samsung tries to create a unified AI experience.
Visitors walk past the Samsung booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Update: Monday December 18th. While many will look to AI as the differentiator between smartphones in 2024, others will continue to use established criteria to decide the best phone. That’s why news on the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s camera will be more important than AI when consumers and critics form their first impressions.
Famous consultant Ahmed Gwaider Smasung has released new details on its camera approach for 2024. The biggest change seems to be in the default image resolution, with the South Korean company bumping it from 12 megapixels to 24 megapixels – and no doubt this change from Apple is just as coincidental. Defaults to 24 megapixels on the iPhone 15 family.
In terms of hardware, the Galaxy S24 Ultra is expected to come with a 200-megapixel primary lens, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens, a 10-megapixel telephoto lens with x3 optical zoom, and a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with x5 optical zoom.
Galaxy S23 Ultra camera detail (Photo via Getty Images)
New details of the Exynos 2400 chip reliable tipster Tech_Reve shows that Samsung has jumped ahead in terms of performance, but it is still expected to lag behind Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 For Samsung chipset. The latter will power every Galaxy S24 Ultra model, but only a select number of Galaxy S24 and S24+ models, depending on which region you bought your new Galaxy S smartphone from.
The biggest news comes with the GPU. Samsung is working with AMD, and the capabilities of the new Exynos will exceed those of the equivalent A17 Pro chipset found in the recently released iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max.
Compared to the previous version, the latest Exynos is a thinner package with increased heat dissipation levels. The latter should allow for more consistent performance.
One of the biggest advantages of the Exynos 2400 over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is the simplest… it’s cheaper.
Last week’s leaked pricing suggests that Samsung will pass on the Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra prices to the Galaxy S24 family. Given the rising prices of several key parts (especially memory and storage costs), going back to sharing Exynos and Snapdragon in the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ will help keep the bill of materials as low as possible.
The Galaxy S24 family, including the S24 Ultra and the S-Pen, will be unveiled in early 2024 at the Galaxy Unpacked event, which is expected to take place on January 17.
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