We aren’t too far from the launch of the Galaxy S21 and it seems like information about the upcoming smartphone has been leaking quite profusely. The latest leak deals with a Geekbench 5 result that was spotted online by Tom’s Guide.

The smartphone that will have the model number SM-8991U was spotted on Geekbench’s website running on a “Lahaina” chipset, a codename for either Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chipset or Samsung’s latest Exynos chipset. The score results were not as impressive as we would expect it to be. The results show scores of 1,120 (single-core) and 3,319 (multi-core) in Geekbench 5 which is quite lower than the iPhone 12 Series being powered by the A14 Bionic. 

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However, it is important to point out that the benchmarks don’t really represent actual real-world usage completely. There could also be a chance that Samsung is still making optimisations to make sure the new chipset performs at its full potential. It also worth pointing out that it is too early to assume anything right now especially since the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset was announced just last week.

 We can expect improvements in other areas such as photography, AI and gaming which don’t get tested by Geekbench. The benchmarking tool only takes computational speed into account and it would be interesting to see how the new chips compare with the competition once we get the smartphone in our hand. 

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