Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus may not be as powerful as hoped

Or it might just be energy-aware

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We’ve been hearing lots of positive things about the Exynos 2200 chipset destined for theSamsung Galaxy S22range in some parts of the world, but a new benchmark suggests that it might not be so powerful after all.

AGeekbench listingfor a phone with a model number linked to theSamsungGalaxy S22 Plus has been spotted by Twitter leakerFrontTron, and it includes an Exynos 2200 chipset, 8GB of RAM, andAndroid 12.

That chipset has one high-power core clocked at 2.59GHz, three cores clocked at 2.50GHz, and four low-power cores clocked at 1.73GHz, but perhaps the numbers you’re more interested in are the benchmark scores, and these don’t impress.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus is shown to achieve a single-core score of 1,073, and a multi-core result of 3,389. For reference, in our own tests theSamsung Galaxy S21achieved a multi-core score of 3,367, while theSamsung Galaxy S21 Plusmanaged a multi-core result of 3,170 and a single-core result of 1,035.

So in other words the scores shown here are only a tiny upgrade on the current models, and we were testing the Exynos versions of the Galaxy S21 range, so this Galaxy S22 Plus should be using a newer and better version of the same chipset range.

Analysis: don’t read too much into these scores

So what’s going on? For one thing we’d throw in our usual caveat here – this listing could be fake, and even if it is real it will be based on pre-release hardware and software, so the final scores are likely to be higher.

But there’s likely another factor here too – the benchmark refers to ‘energy aware’, which might suggest the use of a power-saving mode when this benchmark was taken. In other words, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus might only have been using a fraction of its full power.

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We’re not sure why the benchmark would have been recorded in such a mode, as that’s rare to see, but it would certainly explain the scores. So while we can’t be certain what’s going on, it’s very likely that the Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus will be a much better performer than this benchmark suggests.

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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.

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