According to a fresh claim from the South Korean news site, The Elec, the Fan Edition series will return in 2023, with the Galaxy S23 FE arriving in August/September. Due to an ongoing chip scarcity and growing demand for its flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra, Samsung chose not to release the Galaxy S22 FE last year.
With the Galaxy S20 FE back in 2020, the Galaxy FE series gained prominence, with over 10 million shipments that year alone. Following up on such a highly-received gadget is difficult, and the Galaxy S21 FE did not do well, prompting Samsung to reevaluate its FE range releases in the future.
According to the current claim, Samsung will forego the Galaxy A74 in favor of expanding the availability of the Galaxy S23 FE in additional areas. Samsung is reshaping its Galaxy A-series portfolio, and the A7-series will most certainly be dropped. The future FE phone will be powered by either the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 For Galaxy or the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 from 2022.
Galaxy S23 FE for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus
Should the Galaxy S23 FE take the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, then we should expect a prime X3 core(which delivers a whole lot according to earlier reports) clocked at 3.2GHz, four performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz to assist with the intense workloads multitasking, and lastly, three efficiency cores clocked at 2.0GHz.
Moving on to memory, it’s on a whole new “fast” level. The chipset supports LP-DDR5X up to 4200MHz( an increase from LP-DDR5 with 3200MHz) as well as UFS 4.0( an upgrade from UFS 3.1). In the GPU section, Qualcomm integrated 25 percent higher performance and 45 percent better efficiency. There’s the hardware accelerated ray on this chip plus it supports Vulkan 1.3(the first on a Snapdragon chipset) alongside OpenGL ES 3.2 – something gamers will love to experience.
Still an impressive chip, the Galaxy S23 FE will perform amazingly well with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus as well. Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus comprises one Kryo ARM Cortex X2-based Prime core clocked at a whopping 3.2GHz, three Kryo ARM Cortex A710-based performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz as well as four Kryo ARM Cortex A510-based efficiency cores clocked at 2.0GHz. This is a 10 percent increase in CPU performance and an amazing 30 percent increase in power efficiency compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Speaking of the GPU, it houses Adreno GPU which ensures HDR gaming with 10-bit color depth and Rec. 2020 color gaming, volumetric and physical-based rendering among a few other impressive feats. The improvements on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus GPU gives a 10 percent increase in GPU clock speeds plus a 30 percent increase in GPU power efficiency. Oh well, let’s see what the Korean tech giant will integrate with the Galaxy S23 FE if there’s going to be any.
