Samsung will launch the Galaxy S24 Ultra in January, and the US variant appeared on Geekbench today. The SM-S928U device has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (codename pineapple) with a 1+3+2+2 CPU configuration.

The prime core ticks at 3.30 GHz, which is less than the previous generation Snapdragon flagship, but the rest is more impressive: the second cluster has three cores at 3.15 GHz, the third has two units at 2.96 GHz, and the remaining two cores are clocked at 2.27 GHz.

The phone tested had a relatively tame 8 GB of RAM and will run Android 14, likely with One UI 6.1 on top.

The benchmark results revealed a single-core score of 2,234 and a multi-core score of 6,807. This is a massive increase of 15% and 35% over the Galaxy S23 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, respectively.

The major takeaway from this Geekbench listing is not the raw result, but rather the confirmation that Samsung is once again planning to diversify its chipsets. The Exynos 2400 platform will power some of the Galaxy S24 flagships, but it may be limited to the S24 and S24+, with the Ultra going fully with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.