Samsung Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon) vs Realme GT 7 (Global)
Here we compared two flagship smartphones: the 6.2-inch Samsung Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon) (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) that was released on January 17, 2024, against the Realme GT 7 (Global), which is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 9400e and came out 1 year and 4 months after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Samsung Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon)
- Handles wireless charging up to 15W
- The rear camera has a 3x optical zoom
- More recent OS version: Android 17 versus 15
- Supports Dolby Atmos sound technology
- Weighs 39 grams less
- Better grip in hands – the body is 5.53 mm narrower
Reasons to consider the Realme GT 7 (Global)
- Comes with 3000 mAh larger battery capacity: 7000 vs 4000 mAh
- Shows 74% longer battery life (34:22 vs 19:44 hours)
- Has a 0.58 inch larger screen size
- Supports higher wattage charging (120W versus 25W)
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.4)
- Waterproof body (IP69 classification)
- Compatible with Wi-Fi 7 wireless networks
- Has 2 SIM card slots
- The phone is 1 year and 4 months newer
- Has a built-in infrared port
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | Dynamic AMOLED | AMOLED |
| Size | 6.2 inches | 6.78 inches |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2340 pixels | 1264 x 2780 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 19.5:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 416 ppi | 450 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (24-120 Hz) | Yes (1-120 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 2600 nits | 1600 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | - | 6000 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, Dolby Vision |
| Touch sampling rate | 240 Hz | 360 Hz |
| Screen protection | Gorilla Glass Victus 2 | Corning Gorilla Glass 7i |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 90.9% | 89.8% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
Screen space comparison
GT 7 (Global)
6.78″ (20:9 ratio) = 17.2 in2
Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon)
6.2″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 14.6 in2
~17% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 147 mm (5.79 inches) | 162.42 mm (6.39 inches) |
| Width | 70.6 mm (2.78 inches) | 76.13 mm (3 inches) |
| Thickness | 7.6 mm (0.3 inches) | 8.3 mm (0.33 inches) |
| Weight | 167 g (5.89 oz) | 206 g (7.27 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | IP69 |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | Vapor chamber |
| Rear material | Glass | Plastic |
| Frame material | Metal | Plastic |
| Colors | Black, Gray, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow | Black, Blue, Green |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
| Repairability | - | Good (3.4/5) |
| Drop resistance | - | Very good (B) · 180 drops |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 | MediaTek Dimensity 9400e |
| Max clock | 3300 MHz | 3400 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 2 + 2) | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) |
| Architecture | - 2 cores at 2.27 GHz: Cortex-A520 - 2 cores at 2.96 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 3 cores at 3.15 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 1 core at 3.3 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
- 4 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A720 - 3 cores at 2.85 GHz: Cortex-X4 - 1 core at 3.4 GHz: Cortex-X4 |
| L3 cache | 12 MB | 8 MB |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | MediaTek NPU 790 |
| Graphics | Adreno 750 | Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12 |
| GPU shading units | 1536 | 1536 |
| GPU clock | 903-1000 MHz | 1300 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~2774 GFLOPS | ~3993.6 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 17327 | 15981 |
| Single-core score | 2066 | 2184 |
| Multi-core score | 6434 | 7300 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 738110 | 734964 |
| GPU | 814230 | 830537 |
| Memory | 244427 | 358578 |
| UX | 495918 | 581728 |
| Total score | 2292685 | 2505807 |
| Samples | [18 tests] | [30 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 67% | 59% |
| Graphics test | 11 FPS | 14 FPS |
| Graphics score | 1507 | 1916 |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Stability | 62% | - |
| Graphics test | 30 FPS | 31 FPS |
| Section 1 | 36 FPS | 33 FPS |
| Section 2 | 31 FPS | 31 FPS |
| Section 3 | 23 FPS | 27 FPS |
| Graphics score | 7976 | 8040 |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | 50% | - |
| Graphics test | 28 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 4826 | - |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 18350 | 17009 |
| Video editing | 7968 | 6480 |
| Photo editing | 35076 | 26452 |
| Data manipulation | 14984 | 15003 |
| Writing score | 21029 | 22746 |
AnTuTu 11 Ranking List (200th and 148th place)
Recent User Tests
Samsung Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-30 (Y4nnick23) | Battery life | SOT 5:30 / 18:00 |
| 📘 2026-09-20 (Iizzzuu) | AnTuTu 12 | 2391410 |
| 📘 2026-09-05 (Самса с24) | AnTuTu 11 | 2278769 |
| 📘 2026-08-05 (Flames-2) | AnTuTu 11 | 2364143 |
| 📘 2026-06-30 (mrtcn) | AnTuTu 11 | 2068918 |
Realme GT 7 (Global)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-10-07 (Ravi) | AnTuTu 12 | 2679312 |
| 📘 2026-10-04 (mrkiup89) | AnTuTu 12 | 2652753 |
| 📘 2026-09-30 (Aziz) | AnTuTu 12 | 2571021 |
| 📘 2026-09-24 -> Regenis0 | AnTuTu 12 | 2579291 |
| 📘 2026-09-05 (montyy) | AnTuTu 11 | 2483073 |
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X |
| Memory clock | 4200 MHz | - |
| Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Storage size | 128 GB | 256 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 4.0 |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 14 (Can be upgraded to Android 17) | Android 15 |
| ROM | One UI 9.0 | Realme UI 6.0 |
| OS size | 24.1 GB | - |
| OS updates | - | 6 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 4000 mAh | 7000 mAh |
| Max charge power | 25 W | 120 W |
| Battery type | Li-Ion | Silicon-Carbon (Si/C) |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (15 W) | No |
| Reverse charging | Yes, (wireless) | Yes |
| Bypass charging | Yes | Yes |
| Fast charging | Yes (59% in 30 min) | Yes (56% in 15 min) |
| Full charging time | 1:15 hr | 0:36 hr |
| Battery cycles | - | 800 cycles |
| Web browsing | 07:07 hr | 18:23 hr |
| Watching video | 15:32 hr | 22:53 hr |
| Gaming | 05:03 hr | 09:51 hr |
| Standby | 83 hr | 113 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#17th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8160 x 6120 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Zoom | Optical, 3x | Optical, 2x |
| Flash | LED | Dual LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | Up to 30FPS | Up to 30FPS |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 120FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 240 FPS (1080p) | 240 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 120° | 112° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 10 MP 3) Ultrawide: 12 MP |
1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 50 MP 3) Ultrawide: 8 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.8 | f/1.8 |
| Focal length | 24 mm | - |
| Sensor | Samsung ISOCELL GN3 | Sony IMX906 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) | 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | 1 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 10 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.4 | f/2.0 |
| Focal length | 67 mm | 47 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung ISOCELL 3K1 | Samsung S5KJN5 |
| Sensor size | 1/3.94" (≈ 0.25 inch) | 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Stabilization | Optical | Digital |
| Image resolution | 12 MP | 8 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 13 mm | 16 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX564 | Omnivision OV08D10 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch) | 1/4.0" (≈ 0.25 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.4 micron | 1.12 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 65 | - |
| Preview | 69 | - |
| Zoom | 135 | - |
| Samples | Photo samples of Samsung Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon) from DxOMark | - |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 12 megapixels | 32 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 4000 x 3000 | - |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.5 |
| Focal length | 26 mm | 21 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K3LU | Sony IMX615 |
| Sensor size | 1/3.2" (≈ 0.31 inch) | 1/2.74" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.12 micron | 0.8 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus | No |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 7 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 3.2 | 2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | Yes, DP 1.2 | No |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | No | Yes |
| Number of SIM* | 1 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | - | Standby |
| eSIM support* | Yes | Yes |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 20 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes | No |
Other
| Category | Flagship | Flagship |
| Announced | January 2024 | May 2025 |
| Release date | January 2024 | May 2025 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $799 | $749 |
| Successor | - Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus (Snapdragon) | - |
| SAR (head) | 0.87 W/kg | - |
| SAR (body) | 1.35 W/kg | - |
| Sensors | - Hall-effect sensor - Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Not included | Yes, 120 W |
Further details
Notes on Galaxy S24 (Snapdragon):
- The 128 GB variant features UFS 3.1 memory, other models have UFS 4.0.
- There are two models: one with dual Nano SIM, and the other with 1 Nano SIM + eSIM.
Notes on GT 7 (Global):
- The Dream Edition is thicker at 8.73 mm and 5 grams heavier.
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
After analyzing all the data, we think that the Realme GT 7 (Global) is definitely a better buy.
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