Samsung’s under-development in-house Exynos 2600 SoC performs slightly better than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (non-elite) in Geekbench testing.
Currently, the Korean tech giant is building its latest flagship Exynos 2600 chipset, which is supposed to be introduced with the Galaxy S26 series next year. Samsung at the Q3 2025 earnings call confirmed that it will use the Exynos 2600 for the Galaxy S26 models at least in selected regions.
The chipset has already appeared on Geekbench several times, and fortunately, the results are quite impressive as they show it is faster than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite and Apple’s A19 Pro chipsets.
On the other hand, Qualcomm recently announced its latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, and also mentioned that a non-elite version of this chip is in the works. Now, a reliable tipster, Digital Chat Station, shared Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 details and performance on Weibo.
According to the tipster, the chipset is based on TSMC’s N3P process, and is expected to have two main CPU cores running at 3.8GHz and six performance cores at 3.32GHz, and will use the Adreno 840 GPU.
The Geekbench listing of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 reveals that the single-core score is 3,000, and the multi-core score is 10,000. While on the comparison side, Samsung’s Exynos 2600 chipset performs slightly better, as it reaches around 3,455 points for single-core and 11,621 points for multi-core tests.
These performance results show that Samsung is on the right track for the Exynos 2600 as it’s highly anticipated to perform faster than Qualcomm’s unreleased Snapdragon 8 Gen 5.
