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This still falls short of the OnePlus 10 Pro with its 80W charging and the Xiaomi 12 with its 67W charging, but it should provide an improvement nonetheless. At 45W, it’s finally befitting of a flagship phone after the 25W Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. One area in which the Galaxy S22 Ultra is quite clearly an improvement over its predecessor is charging speed. Hopefully the fact that the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra can scale its display right down to 1Hz, in addition to a more efficient processor (on paper) will improve things for the newer phone. We emptied the tank much more quickly when we pushed that 120Hz screen refresh rate to the max and cranked up the resolution to QHD+. That was with the screen settings scaled back, however.
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We found the Galaxy S21 Ultra’s battery performance to be solid during our test period, with a full charge sufficient to get us through a full day and change. But then, they need a chunky cell with such power-hogging components.Ī Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (Image credit: Future) Batteryīoth phones give you large 5,000mAh batteries. While both phones technically support Samsung’s stylus, only the Galaxy S22 Ultra integrates it as tightly as the old Galaxy Note range, even going so far as to house a compact stylus within its body. There’s no 1TB option with the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra.Īnother win for the Galaxy S22 Ultra comes with its S Pen offering. The newer phone strikes back with the offer of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and now 1TB internal storage options. Meanwhile, the top Galaxy S21 Ultra option lays on 16GB. While both phones treat 12GB as the standard, the entry-level Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra only gives you 8GB. One interesting spec that actually goes in the older Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra’s favor is RAM. That’s quite a big ‘if’ at this point though.Īll of this means that you probably won’t notice much of a performance difference between the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Galaxy S22 Ultra.

It could provide some advanced effects in games, if developers choose to implement them.
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One that front, the most interesting point is that the Exynos 2200’s AMD GPU shares the same RDNA2 architecture as the PS5 and the Xbox Series X.

Early benchmarks suggest that CPU performance is broadly similar, while GPU performance is the biggest advance. Those chips are the Snapdragon 888 (in the US and China) and the Exynos 2100 (everywhere else). This is something we’ll have to test for ourselves, but early signs are that neither of these chips provide a huge step forward in performance over their 5nm predecessors used in the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Both are 4nm chips, and we’re expecting both to provide more or less the same level of power. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra will come powered by either a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or Samsung’s new Exynos 2200 chip, depending on your region.
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It remains to be seen how much of a difference these software updates will make in practice though. We're also seeing other advances in the software here, with new features like Advanced Nightography for improved low light performance. If there’s been one area where Samsung’s camera department has fallen behind Apple’s and Google’s, it’s with its algorithms, so this could be a good thing. Given how much the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra impressed us in 2021 though, particularly with its excellent zoomed shots, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.Įspecially given that there have been some major advancements in the AI department.

This lack of obvious advancement might be a bit of a disappointment. Wouldn’t you know it, even the selfie cameras seem to be the same 40MP sensor with an f/2.2 aperture. A Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (Image credit: Aakash Jhaveri)
