Galaxy S26 Edge with Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 spotted on Geekbench
The device appeared with the SM-S947U identifier – likely the U.S. variant of the phone and we now have our first benchmark for Qualcomm's next flagship chip. Keep in mind that this is a pre-production unit, so these scores will be higher on the final consumer version.
Galaxy S26 Edge (SM-S947U) Geekbench listing
The upcoming flagship chipset will feature an eight-core CPU with 2x prime cores clocked @4.74 GHz and 6x performance cores running @3.63 GHz. These CPU frequencies are higher than the SD Elite's 4.32GHz and 3.53GHz. A report from last month suggested that Qualcomm is testing the SD Elite 2 with up to 4.6GHz CPU clock speed for the regular version and 4.74 GHz for the Galaxy version.
The S26 Edge achieved 3,393 single-core and 11,515 multi-core scores. These scores are slightly higher than the S25 Edge's 3,131 and 9,391 outings, representing 8% and 22% gains, respectively.
The Snapdragon Elite 2 is confirmed to launch next month.
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