Samsung has announced that 2026 could be a big year for Exynos, which means Exynos 2600 will make its huge leap in performance competition, and we’ve compared early signs of upgrades through benchmarking against Exynos 2500 to get a better understanding of what’s heading our way.

Exynos 2600 is expected to be a major performance upgrade and power efficiency over previous top-tier processors. The reason behind these new developments is the 2nm technology process, and it appears that Samsung has also learned some new optimizations for system-on-chip design to make the processor competitive against its rivals.

This information makes the advanced chip launch worthwhile waiting, but we don’t have to wait for a full revelation for this chip to show its real power because Exynos 2600 has already appeared on Geekbench, and here’s what we’ve found in the listing.

• Single-core – 3455 points
• Multi-core – 11621 points

Its base frequency is 2.76GHz and benchmarked with the 10-core architecture, the same as Exynos 2500, but with a different cluster combination.

• Cluster 1 has 6 cores at 2.76GHz
• Cluster 2 has 3 cores at 3.26GHz
• Cluster 3 has a single core at 3.80GHz

Source – Jukanlosreve/X

Compared to this, the Exynos 2500 on Flip 7 had 2342 single-core and 7472 multi-core performance. Its base frequency is 1.80GHz, and the CPU architecture has four clusters, instead of three.

• Cluster 1 has 2 cores at 1.80GHz
• Cluster 1 has 5 cores at 2.36GHz
• Cluster 1 has 2 cores at 2.75GHz
• Cluster 1 has a single core at 3.30GHz

Comparison

The Exynos 2600 is 1113 points ahead in single-core performance and 4149 points in multi-core. These are 47.52% and 55.33% performance improvements, respectively, in both segments.

That means the Exynos 2600 is faster for everyday tasks and heavy application usage, which makes it more reliable compared to Exynos 2500. The platform that the benchmark may also be a major factor, the new chip might receive a run on Galaxy S26, but the model wasn’t mentioned on the benchmarking platform.

Earlier in the Q3 business report, Samsung mentioned that it will opt for the Exynos Flagship in key flagship phones. Read more here.

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