Very quickly after the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S23 phones, the first comparative test appeared, in which the flagships of the Korean company of two generations converged. It is noteworthy that they were tested not in Geekbench or AnTuTu, but in 3DMark, a graphics performance test.

And in it, the new flagships Galaxy S23 did not leave a stone unturned from the Galaxy S22. Thus, the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus scored 3811 and 3799 points respectively, showing an average frame rate of 22.8 FPS, while the Galaxy S22 Plus scored 1689 points, and the average frame rate was half that of 10.10 FPS.

The situation in the tests of Ultra models is approximately the same: Galaxy S23 Ultra scored 3874 points at a frame rate of 23.2 FPS, Galaxy S22 Ultra scores 1912 points at 11.4 FPS.

Recall that the Galaxy S23 is built on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC with the Adreno 740 GPU, and they were compared with their predecessors on the Exynos 2200 SoC with the Xclipse 920 GPU.

Samsung has finally unveiled its new flagship smartphones Galaxy S23. Almost everything about them was known in advance, so we can only sum up.

Galaxy S23

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.1-inch diagonal with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 48 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8GB RAM and 128GB to 512GB flash storage
• Battery – 3900 mAh with 25-watt charging
• Cameras – 50MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 146.3 x 70.9 x 7.6 mm with a weight of 168 g

Galaxy S23+

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.6-inch diagonal with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 48 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8 GB RAM and 256 or 512 GB flash
• Battery – 4700 mAh with 45-watt charging
• Cameras – 50MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 157.8 x 76.2 x 7.6 mm with a weight of 196 g

Galaxy S23 Ultra

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.8-inch diagonal with a resolution of 3088 x 1440 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 1 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8GB or 12GB RAM and 256GB to 1TB flash
• Battery – 5000 mAh with 45-watt charging
• Cameras – 200MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP camera with 3x optical zoom, 10MP periscope camera with 10x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 163.4 x 78.1 x 8.9 mm with a weight of 234 g

All new items are protected from water and dust (IP68), all support Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3, all received the new Gorilla Glass Victus 2 glass and run Android 13 with One UI 5.1 shell. New items will be available in four colors: Phantom Black, Cream, Green and Lavender.

In terms of pricing, the Galaxy S23 in the US starts at $800 before tax, the Galaxy S23+ starts at $1,050, and the Galaxy S23 Ultra starts at $1,120. In all cases, prices for the oldest modifications are not yet available.

The team of the popular benchmark AnTuTu has published a fresh rating of the most productive flagship smartphones based on the Android operating system in January 2023.

In January, the newest smartphone OnePlus 11 broke into the first place, which managed to become a bestseller. He pushed out the December leader iQOO 11 Pro, which dropped to second place. Third place again went to Vivo X90 Pro +, but the Redmi K60 Pro, which was in second place, dropped to sixth place.

The ranking is dominated by models based on the new flagship platform Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, they own 8 positions out of ten. The remaining two in the Top 10 are Vivo X90 Pro and Vivo X90 based on Dimensity 9200.

Statistics collected from January 1 to January 31, 2023. The AnTuTu ranking uses averages, not the highest scores. For each smartphone, the results of at least 1000 tests were taken into account – models with fewer tests are not included in the rating.