The Samsung Galaxy S8 had a busy night yesterday, but there’s no time to rest - the first benchmarks are in, so let’s see how the new flagship performs against the competition.

Note that this is an Exynos 8895 unit, there’s also a Snapdragon 835 version not included in these scores. Both should perform practically identically or so Samsung claims.

We open up with a narrow win in AnTuTu 6 against the iPhone 7 Plus, which is still one of the best all-round performers. The performance increase from the previous Exynos chip is tangible and ahead of the Snapdragon 821 used by some of the Android competition.

AnTuTu 6

Higher is better

Samsung Galaxy S8 (E8895)

174155

Apple iPhone 7 Plus

173110

OnePlus 3T

165097

LG G6

143639

HTC U Ultra

139750

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (S820)

132849

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (E8890)

129629

Huawei P10 Plus

126252

The Galaxy S8 also claims the multi-core performance crown in Geekbench 4, beating the Kirin 960 chip inside the Huawei P10 Plus. The Exynos and Kirin are quite similar - both are based on the Mali-G71 GPU, but the Huawei silicone has stock A73 cores, Samsung’s are customized (details are scarce, though).

GeekBench 4 (multi-core)

Higher is better

Samsung Galaxy S8 (E8895)

6339

Huawei P10 Plus

5821

Apple iPhone 7 Plus

5664

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (E8890)

5645

OnePlus 3T

4364

LG G6

4209

HTC U Ultra

4201

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (S820)

4128

Single-core performance improved but the margin is much smaller and Apple’s cores still reign supreme here.

GeekBench 4 (single-core)

Higher is better

Apple iPhone 7 Plus

3473

Samsung Galaxy S8 (E8895)

1974

Huawei P10 Plus

1937

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (E8890)

1911

OnePlus 3T

1890

LG G6

1733

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (S820)

1696

HTC U Ultra

1647

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