Galaxy S25 Edge can speed past the iPhone Air

On Tuesday, Apple launched a new lineup of phones, the iPhone 17 series. For one of the devices in it, the iPhone Air, the Cupertino-based tech giant copied Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge. Despite that, it falls behind the one from Samsung in terms of display size, number of cameras, and battery capacity, and as we have recently seen, with regards to battery endurance as well.

As it turns out, the Galaxy S25 Edge trumps the iPhone Air in one more aspect, and that’s CPU performance. Going by performance tests, it looks like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite in the former is faster overall than the A19 Pro in the latter. Furthermore, Apple’s latest chipset also seems to be slower than Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 2600 for the Galaxy S26 seres.

The performance benchmarks of Apple’s iPhone Air have arrived. On Geekbench, iPhone Air has scored 3,674 points in the multi-core CPU test and 8,824 points in the multi-core CPU test. In comparison, the Galaxy S25 Edge has scored 3,093 points in the single-core CPU test and 9,802 points in the multi-core CPU test.

As you can see in the screenshots above, while the iPhone Air has higher single-core CPU performance, it is the Galaxy S25 Edge that performs better overall with a higher multi-core CPU score. However, it remains to be seen how does the one from Apple holds up in the sustained performance tests.

Recently, we got to see the performance of Samsung’s upcoming Exynos 2600 chipset, which the brand may use for the Galaxy S26 series, including the Galaxy S26 Edge. On Geekbench, it scored 3,309 and 11,256 points in the single-core and multi-core CPU tests. That means it is way faster than Apple’s A19 Pro chipset. With that, the Galaxy S26 series should perform faster than the iPhone 17 lineup.