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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy vs. regular Snapdragon 8 Elite: Is there a difference?
No, you don't need to pay for a Galaxy S25 to get the best chip.
As my colleague Harish Jonnalagadda recently confirmed in benchmark testing, the Snapdragon 8 Elite crushes what MediaTek and Google comparatively offer. Instead, these benchmarking results signal that how a manufacturer chooses to run its processor of choice matters much more than whether it's the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite chip or the "for Galaxy" variant. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)There's no better proof of this than the iQOO 13, which has the same chip as the ROG Phone 9 Pro but performs nearly 10,000 points lower in certain benchmark tests.
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