Samsung Galaxy S23 vs A23 5G
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Here we compared two smartphones: the 6.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S23 (with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy) that was released on February 1, 2023, against the Samsung Galaxy A23 5G, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 and came out 6 months before. 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 S23
- Waterproof body (IP68 classification)
- 2.9x better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1712K versus 593K)
- The rear camera has a 3x optical zoom
- Delivers 137% higher peak brightness (1207 against 509 nits)
- Has 2x more RAM: 8GB versus 4GB
- Handles wireless charging up to 10W
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.3)
- Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
- Ability to record video in 4K resolution
- More recent OS version: Android 16 versus 14
- Compatible with Wi-Fi 6 wireless networks
- Stereo speakers
- Dynamic AMOLED display (versus competitor's PLS TFT)
Reasons to consider the Samsung Galaxy A23 5G
- Comes with 1100 mAh larger battery capacity: 5000 vs 3900 mAh
- Shows 19% longer battery life (26:19 vs 22:02 hours)
- Expandable storage via MicroSD card up to 1024GB
- Has a 0.5 inch larger screen size
- Has 2 SIM card slots
- Includes a 3.5 mm headphone audio jack 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
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | Dynamic AMOLED | PLS TFT |
| Size | 6.1 inches | 6.6 inches |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2340 pixels | 1080 x 2408 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 19.5:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 425 ppi | 400 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (24-120 Hz) | No |
| Max rated brightness | 1200 nits | 450 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 1750 nits | - |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | No |
| Screen protection | Gorilla Glass Victus 2 | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 88% | 82.7% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display |
- DCI-P3 |
| RGB color space | 98.9% | 99.9% |
| PWM | 240 Hz | - |
| Response time | 1 ms | 22 ms |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | 1442:1 |
Screen space comparison
Galaxy A23 5G
6.6″ (20:9 ratio) = 16.3 in2
Galaxy S23
6.1″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 14.2 in2
~15% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 146.3 mm (5.76 inches) | 165.4 mm (6.51 inches) |
| Width | 70.9 mm (2.79 inches) | 76.9 mm (3.03 inches) |
| Thickness | 7.6 mm (0.3 inches) | 8.4 mm (0.33 inches) |
| Weight | 168 g (5.93 oz) | 197 g (6.95 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | No |
| Advanced cooling | Vapor chamber | - |
| Rear material | Glass | Plastic |
| Frame material | Metal | Plastic |
| Colors | White, Black, Gray, Green, Purple, Yellow | White, Black, Blue, Yellow |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-button |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy | Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 |
| Max clock | 3360 MHz | 2200 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 2 + 2 + 3) | 8 (2 + 6) |
| Architecture | - 3 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A510 - 2 cores at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-A710 - 2 cores at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-A715 - 1 core at 3.2 GHz: Cortex-X3 |
- 6 cores at 1.8 GHz: Kryo 660 Silver (Cortex-A55) - 2 cores at 2.2 GHz: Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A78) |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | - |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 6 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | Hexagon 686 |
| Graphics | Adreno 740 | Adreno 619 |
| GPU shading units | 1536 | 256 |
| GPU clock | 680 MHz | 840 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~2089 GFLOPS | ~430.1 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | 9410 | 1403 |
| Single-core score | 1987 | 896 |
| Multi-core score | 5171 | 2092 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 587063 | 252513 |
| GPU | 434955 | 63520 |
| Memory | 275390 | 101358 |
| UX | 414985 | 175695 |
| Total score | 1712393 | 593086 |
| Samples | [29 tests] | [5 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 76% | - |
| Graphics test | 8 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 1069 | - |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Stability | 73% | - |
| Graphics test | 20 FPS | - |
| Section 1 | 23 FPS | - |
| Section 2 | 20 FPS | - |
| Section 3 | 18 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 5348 | - |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | 61% | 98% |
| Graphics test | 21 FPS | 2 FPS |
| Graphics score | 3669 | 352 |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 15188 | 9526 |
| Video editing | 7873 | 4816 |
| Photo editing | 33939 | 20862 |
| Data manipulation | 12935 | 8753 |
| Writing score | 19390 | 11119 |
Recent User Tests
Samsung Galaxy S23
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-21 (Mil) | AnTuTu 12 | 1763249 |
| 📘 2026-09-16 (Fluffyicebite:3) | AnTuTu 12 | 1835927 |
| 📘 2026-09-09 -> Rafarobbie22 | AnTuTu 11 | 1708074 |
| 📘 2026-09-09 (Rafa) | AnTuTu 11 | 1708074 |
| 📘 2026-08-09 (Sevin) | AnTuTu 11 | 1700056 |
Samsung Galaxy A23 5G
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-23 (Denislav Antimov) | AnTuTu 11 | 598228 |
| 📘 2026-02-25 (Shourai) | AnTuTu 11 | 593086 |
| 📘 2025-11-25 -> manvancongggg | AnTuTu 11 | 601723 |
| 📘 2025-10-20 -> Cihuy. | AnTuTu 11 | 479832 |
| 📘 2025-09-11 (Mediatek_04 EE_MRRR032) | AnTuTu 11 | 558174 |
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR4X |
| Memory clock | - | 2133 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 2 |
| Storage size | 128 GB | 64 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 4.0 | UFS 2.2 |
| Memory card | No | MicroSD |
| Memory card max size | - | Up to 1024 GB |
Software
| Operating system | Android 13 (Can be upgraded to Android 16) | Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 14) |
| ROM | One UI 8.0 | One UI 6 |
| OS size | 29.7 GB | - |
| OS updates | 4 years | 2 years |
| Security updates | 5 years | 3 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 3900 mAh | 5000 mAh |
| Max charge power | 25 W | 25 W |
| Battery type | Li-Ion | Li-Ion |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (10 W) | No |
| Reverse charging | Yes, (wireless) | No |
| Bypass charging | Yes | - |
| Fast charging | Yes (57% in 30 min) | Yes (58% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 1:16 hr | 1:08 hr |
| Web browsing | 08:12 hr | 10:23 hr |
| Watching video | 13:41 hr | 15:03 hr |
| Gaming | 05:20 hr | 05:45 hr |
| Standby | 109 hr | 134 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#128th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8160 x 6120 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Zoom | Optical, 3x | Digital |
| Flash | LED | LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | Up to 30FPS | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | No |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 120FPS | Up to 30FPS |
| Slow motion | 960 FPS (1080p) | 120 FPS (720p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 120° | 123° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 10 MP 3) Ultrawide: 12 MP |
1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Ultrawide: 5 MP 3) Macro: 2 MP 4) Depth: 2 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 | 23 mm | 26 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5KGN3 | Samsung S5KJN1 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.57" (≈ 0.64 inch) | 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 10 MP | - |
| Aperture | f/2.4 | - |
| Focal length | 70 mm | - |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K3K1 | - |
| Sensor size | 1/3.94" (≈ 0.25 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Optical | - |
| Image resolution | 12 MP | 5 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 13 mm | 13 mm |
| Sensor | Sony IMX564 | GalaxyCore 5035 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch) | 1/5" (≈ 0.2 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.4 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Image resolution | - | 2 MP |
| Aperture | - | f/2.4 |
| Focal length | - | 26 mm |
| Sensor | - | GalaxyCore GC02 |
| Stabilization | - | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 70 | - |
| Preview | 72 | - |
| Zoom | 126 | - |
| Samples | Photo samples of Samsung Galaxy S23 from DxOMark | - |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 12 megapixels | 8 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 4000 x 3000 | 3264 x 2448 |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 26 mm | 25 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung S5K3LU | GalaxyCore |
| Sensor size | 1/3.24" (≈ 0.31 inch) | 1/4.0" (≈ 0.25 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.12 micron | 1.12 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | No |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS | 1080p (Full HD) at 30 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE, A2DP |
| 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 | - |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | No | No |
| Number of SIM* | 1 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | Standby |
| eSIM support* | Yes | No |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 20 | 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Mono |
| Headphone audio jack | No | Yes |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes | Yes |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Mid-range |
| Announced | February 2023 | August 2022 |
| Release date | February 2023 | September 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $799 | $300 |
| Successor | - Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus (Snapdragon) | - |
| SAR (head) | 0.96 W/kg | 1.49 W/kg |
| SAR (body) | 1.3 W/kg | 1.25 W/kg |
| Sensors | - Hall-effect sensor - Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Barometer - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Not included | Not included |
Further details
Notes on Galaxy S23:
- The 128GB version uses slower UFS 3.1 memory, while the 256GB and 512GB models have UFS 4.0.
*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 Samsung Galaxy S23 is definitely a better buy.
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