Galaxy S25’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Set to Outperform iPhone 16’s A18 Chip

Undoubtedly, the hype of Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy S25 series is already touching the skies. The series is anticipated to be powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which could beat the newly launched iPhone 16’s A18 and A18 Pro S0Cs in both CPU and GPU performance.
It’s already reported that Samsung could ditch its in-house Exynos to power the upcoming Galaxy S25 series. The coming series will be powered by Qualcomm’s high-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset.
On the other side, the OnePlus 13 is already running on Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, the same chipset that will be used in the Galaxy S25 series. A well-reliable tipster, Ice Universe, on X, revealed the Geekbench scores of the OnePlus 13, which is powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The benchmarks suggest groundbreaking performance of the chipset. The Geekbench score of the OnePlus 13 beats Apple chipsets.
Apple recently debuted its latest iPhone 16 lineup. On the other side, Samsung is actively setting up to introduce the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is expected to beat the iPhone 16 in terms of performance.
The iPhone 16 is powered by an A18 bionic chipset, which scored 3018 single-core and 7751 multi-core points. The iPhone 16 Pro is based on an A18 Pro chipset, which scored 3114 single-core and 6666 points in multi-core on Geekbench 6’s testing.

On the comparison side, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 scored 3236 single-core and 10049 multi-core in the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark. Noticeably, the scores are expected to increase further with software optimisation when used in the forthcoming Galaxy S25 devices.