Samsung Galaxy S24 FE vs. Samsung Galaxy S23 FE

In the present day, now we have the brand new Galaxy S24 FE, which, for the primary time ever, takes after the Plus mannequin within the flagship Galaxy S household. After which now we have the earlier, now cheaper Galaxy S23 FE, which is smaller in dimension. Do you get the brand new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE for its bigger display screen, or the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE for its extra compact design and cheaper value?

Let’s discover out!

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For starters, you may evaluate the entire specs sheets or instantly proceed with our editor’s evaluation within the following textual content.

Dimension comparability

The Galaxy S24 FE comes with a barely bigger display screen (6.7″ vs 6.4″), and this has mirrored on the cellphone’s dimension, in fact, however not as a lot as you’ll have imagined. The brand new mannequin is barely 4mm taller, lower than a millimeter wider and simply 4 grams heavier.

The brand new Galaxy S24 FE makes use of newer Gorilla Glass Victus+ panels in comparison with the Gorilla Glass 5 shielding the S23 FE. Nonetheless, we might put the 2 telephones on par right here.

Show comparability

The Galaxy S24 FE has a barely bigger 6.7-inch 1080p OLED, whereas the S23 FE packs a 6.3-inch 1080p OLED. Each screens help HDR10+.

The Galaxy S24 FE show has the next most brightness – 1372 nits vs about 1,000 nits on both Galaxy S23 FE fashions (Snapdragon or Exynos). The handbook brightness is round 480 nits on the Galaxy S24 FE and the 2 Galaxy S23 FE variants.

We will argue that the Galaxy S24 FE wins right here for its bigger and brighter display screen.

Battery life

The brand new Galaxy S24 FE mannequin has a barely bigger battery than the S23 FE, 4,700 mAh vs 4,500mAh. However even when the battery capability distinction is small, the Galaxy S24 FE delivers higher battery life than both of the S23 FE incarnations.

Charging pace

Each the Galaxy S24 FE and S23FE help as much as 25W quick wired charging and as much as 15W quick wi-fi charging. Reverse wi-fi charging is offered, too.

Even when there’s a small distinction within the battery capability, the brand new and the outdated mannequin delivered related charging occasions.

Speaker take a look at

The Galaxy S24 FE and S23 FE have the identical hybrid stereo speaker techniques, the place the earpiece acts as a speaker, and there’s one other standalone one on the backside.

The Galaxy S24 FE and Galaxy S23 FE scored Very Good marks for speaker loudness and provide equally nice audio output.

Efficiency

The Galaxy S24 FE has just one model, and it runs on Samsung’s very personal Exynos 2400e, which has the identical CPU and GPU because the flagship Exynos 2400 contained in the Galaxy S24 however with barely decrease core clocks. This implies 10-core CPU and Xclipse 940 GPU.

The Galaxy S23 FE has two variations – the US one with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and the worldwide one based mostly on the Exynos 2200 chip. Each the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the Exynos 2200 are 4nm chips; each have been the guts of the Galaxy S22 sequence. Each chips have related octa-core processors with earlier era cores when in comparison with the S24 FE’s. The Exynos 2200 has this Xclipse 920 GPU, the Snapdragon mannequin has the Adreno 730 GPU.

The Galaxy S24 FE and the Galaxy S23 FE each include 8GB LPDDR5X RAM.

Benchmark efficiency

There’s a two-year distinction between the chips contained in the Galaxy S24 FE and the S23 FE, so it’s no shock the S24 FE is a noticeably sooner cellphone.

Digicam comparability

The Galaxy S24 FE and S23 FE function 4 similar cameras – a 50MP OIS main, a 10MP OIS 3x telephoto, a 12MP ultrawide, and a 10MP selfie.

Picture high quality

The Galaxy S24 FE takes related pictures to the Galaxy S23 FE telephones, with minor variations in to noise discount and/or noise smearing.

Galaxy S24 FE: Primary • UW • Tele 3x • selfie

S23 FE Snapdragon: Primary • UW • Tele 3x • Selfie

S23 FE Exynos: Primary • UW • Tele 3x • Selfie

The standard of the nighttime pictures stays related throughout the Galaxy S24 FE and the 2 variations of the Galaxy S23 FE.

Galaxy S24 FE: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

S23 FE Snapdragon: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

S23 FE Exynos: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

Video high quality

The Galaxy S24 FE has improved video recording capabilities in comparison with the S23 FE. The principle digital camera can now take 8K30 and 4K120 movies.

The 2 telephones seize similar movies in daylight. Be aware that we shot the S23 FE movies with the video stabilization turned off, therefore the broader subject of view.

Beneath, now we have a number of framegrabs from the movies taken by the 2 telephones at every focal size.

S24 FE: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

S23 FE: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

The low-light movies are brighter and extra detailed out of the Galaxy S24 FE.

S24 FE 4K screengrabs: Primary • UW • 3x Tele

S23 FE Snapdragon 4K screengrabs: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

S23 FE Exynos 4K screengrabs: Primary • UW • Tele 3x

Verdict

The Galaxy S24 FE and the Galaxy S23 FE are great reworks of their respective flagship variations. They’re additionally fairly related gadgets, excluding the now totally different display screen dimension. Naturally, the S23 FE is cheaper – it prices about €150 lower than the brand new S24 FE within the EU and about $100 much less within the USA.

The Galaxy S24 FE is a stable improve over the S23 FE as a result of it jumps two chipset generations forward and improves on the battery life, which was a weak level on the S23 FE. You additionally get a bigger and brighter display screen in nearly the identical footprint. And eventually, Samsung guarantees for much longer software program help for the Galaxy S24 FE (7 years), which, coupled with the sooner processor, will imply higher future-proofing in case you have a tendency to carry on to your smartphones for longer.

The S24 FE is decidedly the higher cellphone of the 2. However the reply as to whether it is definitely worth the value premium will largely depend upon how a lot you respect the additional options it gives so we propose you weigh your priorities rigorously.