Snapdragon vs Exynos vs Apple - Which Has the Best Sustained Performance?

Which 2024 flagship processor has the best sustained performance? Is it the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 or the Samsung Exynos 2400? What about the Dimensity 9300 or the Google Tensor G3? Are Apple's processors better? Let's find out!
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#garyexplains

[johnhunt]

I'd like to see someone turn one of these SOCs into a laptop with proper active cooling running a Linux desktop.

[oscarmvl]

There should be a category for this in the Geekbench scoreboards

[konradc]

You made an interesting video. I saw a video last week, and it included previous SoC's like the SD 8Gen2. That processor performed well in some stress tests. Made 300th thumbs up.

[test]

Repeatability is a test many ignore but should in any comprehensive testing strategy. Good job!

[Junier-Hussein]

Great video Gary 🙂

The Exynos 2400 is an powerhouse yet fairly efficient ✅

A step in the right direction for sure.

Another thing I've realised is that the standby battery has improved drastically.

I've uploaded clips of me playing brand new Switch games like Sonic Superstars & Mario Wonder at full speed.

[Legitti]

Went to oneplus 9 because of exynos at the time, tried coming back to s24+ but it's exynos again. Brilliant.

[stennan]

Great topic!
Suggestion for a video: check battery efficiency for different SOC during phone calls? One big factor which seems to be impacting Exynos (S24) worse battery life compared to QC (S23) where GSMarena have tested. Perhaps wou could get a Xiaomi with QC vs Mediatek (PhoneX vs PhoneX PRO).

[ai]

Great stuff Gary, I didn't realize these flagship processors have pushed so far beyond what can be done in the phone form factor as far as cooling goes. I'll probably be on the lookout for lower clocked midrange chips since that level of performance is all a phone can sustain anyway. 👍

[mschf]

Why is no one talking about how the Google pixel managed to keep a sustainable performance right from the first run

[mcappperspective]

Based on your test the new Exynos 2400 is definitely performaning well against its counterpart sd and mtk. i would assume that amd gpu could surpass qualcomm adreno in the future.

[stompreaper]

I like the info, it’s very interesting to see how the design choices pay out for this. Sustained performance doesn’t affect my purchasing decision though.

[Antagon]

That performance drop on Apple is absolutely criminal. It indicates that they overclock GPU to unsustainable level to inflate the benchmark scores, when in reality the GPU will run at 60% of speed.

[hermanstokbrood]

It seems that the Apple SoC's are even less powerfull as thought from seeing the results of a single run.

[wesseldutoit]

I am just curious do you run the tests multiple times or just once? By multiple times I mean, do you do 20X then let the phone cool down and then run it 20X again for a couple of times just to make sure that there werent any outliers? I am just asking because you mentioned when referring to those weird dips and spikes as possible outliers. If you only run one set of the tests wont it be possible that the dip after the second run on the iphone just be an outlier? I assume that if it was an outlier that it wont make to much of a difference (meaning that the iphone would probably stil drop down to that level either then by run 3 or 4)

[abdullahzafar]

Expected more from the Dimensity 9300 but it was still good

Also so glad to see Exynos being in the game, RDNA3 Raytracing lead was expexted. I think if this was using tsmc fab, It would have had a bigger lead in raytracing and a match in raster with Qualcomm

Apple is really disappointing here

[rehannagori]

I really liked this concept of sustained performance it gives a lot of insight of how different processors work also if you could make similar videos every year thanks. And would request to make similar content for upper midrange and mid range processors.

[johnathanblade]

I would love to see these tests run across all 3 Tensor generations. The GPU in the first Tensor still burst-performs higher than the GPU in the 3rd Gen SKU.

[arya_amg]

What a great video
As a rule of thumb if a processor uses more than 7watts it's going to throttle

[DooDootGaming]

Ray tracing performance is where exynos 2400 really shine

[ALLINGaming]

3:40 Aren't SD 8Gen3 and the Dimensity 9300 manufactured on the same process?