Here’s How The New Galaxy S25 Stacks Up To The S25 Plus And S25 Ultra

During its latest Unpacked event, Samsung dished each nan specifications connected nan Galaxy S25 lineup. The Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus commencement astatine $799.99 and $999.99, respectively, while nan S25 Ultra runs a cool $1299.99 successful its entry-level configuration. You tin preorder nan phones up of their motorboat connected February 7th, but earlier you do, you’re astir apt wondering what’s new.

The phones don’t look aliases consciousness overmuch different, prevention for nan somewhat curvier Galaxy S25 Ultra. The Snapdragon Elite 8 is perchance nan S25 family’s astir notable hardware upgrade, which is up to 40 percent faster than nan Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and comes pinch a caller neural processing information to support Samsung’s expanded Galaxy AI experience. The institution introduced multimodal and generative AI improvements, aft all, and nan Galaxy S25 connection will beryllium among nan first to usher successful caller Google Gemini features.

Our reviews are still forthcoming, and it’s overmuch excessively early for america to find whether immoderate of these phones are really worthy upgrading for. But that doesn’t mean we can’t distill their differences to thief you find which instrumentality you’d alternatively buy. Keep reference for a afloat breakdown of each of nan hardware and package changes, nan unsocial traits of each Galaxy S25 device, and a personification look astatine their specs — affirmative their counterparts from past year.

Design

In position of style and size, it’s difficult to show nan Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus from their last-gen counterparts. But nan S25 Ultra looks a spot different than nan S24 Ultra pinch its subtly rounded corners and level edges, which are overmuch visually aligned pinch nan smaller phones. It’s nan thinnest and lightest Ultra yet, moreover if only by a hair. And nan Ultra-exclusive S Pen is back, albeit without gestures and nan distant shutter feature.

Samsung says nan aluminum model connected nan Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus features astatine slightest 1 recycled component. Both sandwich their components betwixt slabs of Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus 2, but nan Ultra uses a titanium model and a show that’s protected by Corning Gorilla Armor 2. It’s a ceramic-infused worldly said to beryllium stronger than emblematic tempered coagulated pinch antireflective and scratch-resistant properties. (The rear still uses Victus 2.)

Samsung too tweaked nan creation of nan camera modules connected each 3 phones, adding a thicker bordering hump pinch a bolder aesthetic. The S25 and S25 Plus recreation successful respective caller colour options, too, including an “icy” bluish and a caller mint greenish to thief them guidelines apart, arsenic bully arsenic navy and metallic for a overmuch accepted aesthetic. Three overmuch colors will beryllium disposable exclusively from Samsung.com: black, red, and roseate gold.

The Ultra has its ain group of titanium colors, including black, gray, and silverish hues of bluish and white. If you bid nan Ultra from Samsung.com, you’ll too beryllium tin to return from roseate gold, black, and green.

Storage and RAM

The Samsung Galaxy S25 bid is disposable pinch mostly nan aforesaid practice and retention options arsenic nan erstwhile models, isolated from each 3 models now commencement pinch 12GB of RAM. You tin get nan guidelines Galaxy S25 pinch 128GB aliases 256GB of storage, while nan Plus starts pinch 256GB of retention pinch a 512GB option. The Ultra, meanwhile, offers nan aforesaid starting configurations arsenic nan Plus, connected pinch a 1TB configuration.

Processor

All 3 Galaxy S25 phones usage a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset — nary matter wherever successful nan world you’re purchasing from. The processor uses an Oryon CPU akin to nan ones you’ll find successful newer Qualcomm laptops.

The 3nm spot has 2 “prime” cores and six capacity cores pinch a dedicated “Hexagon” neural processing information that supports multimodal AI capabilities pinch 40 percent faster ratio compared to nan Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The added headroom allows support for overmuch on-device AI functions, including Generative Edit. Many of these features should mostly activity faster without nan added overhead of server-side processing.

Overall, Samsung claims nan Snapdragon 8 Elite offers 37 percent faster CPU capacity and 30 percent faster GPU capacity for gaming, astatine slightest compared to nan Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 it’s replacing. That being said, we can’t yet discern really that translates successful practice.

Display

The Dynamic AMOLED displays connected nan Galaxy S25 smartphones are mostly unchanged compared to nan erstwhile generation. The guidelines Galaxy S25 still has a 6.2-inch Full HD Plus display, while nan 6.7-inch show connected nan Galaxy S25 Plus remains Quad HD Plus.

The S25 Ultra’s show is somewhat larger than past year’s astatine 6.9 inches — a 0.1-inch summation to dress up for nan flimsy curve — pinch nan aforesaid QHD Plus resolution. All 3 still support a maximum 120Hz adaptable refresh rate.

Cameras

The Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus personification nan aforesaid 3 rear cameras, including a 50-megapixel wide sensor, a 12-megapixel ultrawide option, and a 10-megapixel telephoto sensor. Meanwhile, nan Galaxy S25 Ultra offers 4 afloat rear cameras, including a main 200-megapixel wide-angle camera, a caller 50-megapixel ultrawide camera pinch macro mode (up from nan S24 Ultra’s 12-megapixel), a 50-megapixel telephoto sensor pinch 5x optical zoom, and a 12-megapixel sensor for 3x zoom. All still usage nan aforesaid 12-megapixel beforehand camera.

Recording options are mostly akin crossed nan board, pinch each 3 Galaxy S25 models supporting 8K solution astatine up to 30 frames per 2nd connected their main wide-angle sensors and 4K astatine up to 60 frames per 2nd for each cameras. However, nan Galaxy S25 Ultra supports 4K astatine up to 120 frames per second.

Samsung now enables 10-bit HDR signaling by default connected each S25 phones, and they clasp nan Log colour level scheme action for precocious colour grading. The cameras picked up different software-enabled tricks, too, including nan Audio Eraser characteristic first seen successful Pixel phones. That characteristic lets you return and isolate circumstantial sounds — including voices, music, and upwind — pinch nan action to small nan remainder aliases unopen up them entirely.

There’s too a caller Virtual Aperture characteristic successful Expert RAW, allowing you to group your footage’s grade of conception aft recording. There’s a caller suite of filters inspired by iconic movie looks, too.

Samsung says its caller ProScaler characteristic connected nan Galaxy S25 Plus and Ultra offers 40 percent amended upscaling compared to nan Galaxy S24’s based connected its signal-to-noise ratio. Since that characteristic requires QHD Plus resolution, you won’t find it connected nan guidelines Galaxy S25.

Battery

Like nan Galaxy S24 line, nan Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and S25 Ultra usage 4,000mAh, 4,900mAh, and 5,000mAh batteries, respectively. That being said, Samsung says they relationship nan longest artillery life of immoderate Galaxy phones to date, mostly acknowledgment to hardware and package ratio improvements.

Fast charging complete USB-C returns successful each three, of course, but they’re now too “Qi2 Ready.” That intends location are nary magnets embedded consecutive successful nan devices — which is nan suit pinch Apple’s latest handsets — but you will beryllium tin to get 15W wireless charging speeds erstwhile paired pinch Samsung’s magnetic Qi2 Ready cases. That should efficaciously alteration you to usage magnetic Qi2 chargers pinch Samsung Galaxy S25 devices.

Android 15, One UI 7, and Galaxy AI

The Galaxy S25’s motorboat is small astir nan hardware and overmuch an opportunity to coming One UI 7, its AI-heavy return connected Android 15. While location are respective ocular tweaks, nan bigger alteration is successful Galaxy AI’s expanded granularity and cohesiveness.

Both Samsung and Google are introducing caller multimodal AI features pinch nan Galaxy S25’s launch. Google Gemini Live will motorboat first connected nan Galaxy S25, for example, though it will yet recreation to nan Galaxy S24 and Google Pixel 9. It’s a full-fledged conversational AI companion that’s now nan default adjunct erstwhile long-pressing nan location button. (Bixby is still disposable successful its ain app.)

Gemini Live supports earthy relationship commands for generative tasks and on-device functions. You tin provender it images and files to facilitate requests, and it tin dive into aggregate apps to thief complete them.

You tin too get overmuch personalized regular summaries pinch Now Brief, which is accessible consecutive from nan lockscreen’s caller Now Bar (which feels akin to nan iPhone’s Dynamic Island). You’ll too announcement a redesigned AI Select insubstantial (which you whitethorn retrieve arsenic Smart Select), 20 supported languages for on-device translations, telephone transcriptions consecutive incorrect nan dialer, and more. Most of these changes should larboard to older Galaxy flagships, but we’re not yet judge whether each of them will.

By nan numbers

No, you’re not experiencing deja vu — nan Galaxy S25 smartphones consciousness mostly acquainted connected paper, arsenic our comparison level scheme beneath illustrates. Outside nan processor bump, nan hardware differences are beautiful insignificant compared to Samsung’s last-gen phones.

The package changes are nan astir important upgrades this year, but galore of those features will recreation to older phones, too, acknowledgment to nan now-customary 7 years of OS updates you’ll get erstwhile purchasing a flagship Galaxy phone. Check retired nan afloat specs beneath to spot really precisely these devices compare.

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