On Sunday, a content creator from India, Sahil Karoul, got his hands on the retail unit of Samsung’s next non-foldable flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which is allegedly on sale in Dubai ahead of its launch at the next Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for 25 February 2026.Since then, he has been exploring the device and revealing many things about it. So far, we have learned that the phone may come with a 24-month warranty and that its S Pen lacks Bluetooth, and gotten a look at its Privacy Display feature. Now, we have the phone's performance benchmarks as well.Galaxy S26 Ultra performance benchmarks are hereThe unit of the Galaxy S26 Ultra that Sahil has obtained seems to feature Qualcomm's latest flagship chipset for mobile devices, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Starting with the overall device performance, it scored 3,720,219 points in the AnTuTu benchmark. Moving on to the CPU performance, in Geekbench 6, it managed to achieve 3,648 points in the single-core test and 10,898 points in the multi-core test. Coming to the graphics and sustained performance, in 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress, the phone’s highest score was 6,489 points, and the lowest was 3,455, resulting in a 53.2% stability. During this test, the phone’s temperature rose from 34 degrees Celsius to 44 degrees Celsius, a 10-degree Celsius difference. Sahil reports that the phone didn’t heat up during these benchmarks, which is great news. In comparison, the Galaxy S25 Ultra scored 2,441,258 points in AnTuTu and 3,057 and 9,846 points in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core test respectively. In 3DMark, its highest score was 6,434 points, and its lowest score was 3,080 points, resulting in a 47.9% stability. During this test, the phone’s temperature rose from 29 degrees Celsius to 43 degrees Celsius, a 14-degree Celsius rise.In other words, the Galaxy S26 Ultra has a faster CPU, GPU, and overall performance than the Galaxy S25 Ultra, and the device also runs cooler than its predecessor. The post Galaxy S26 Ultra runs faster and cooler than S25 Ultra appeared first on SamMobile.