A fresh Geekbench listing just surfaced for the Samsung SM-S948B; that’s the Galaxy S26 Ultra Global variant, and it’s running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset.

The benchmark run of Galaxy S26 Ultra Global with Snapdragon chip shows a single-core score of 3,601 and a multi-core result of 10,686. The device is paired with 12GB of RAM and runs Android 16 on the “canoe” motherboard with a “walt” governor.

Looking at the numbers, the 3,601 single-core result represents roughly a 12-14 percent improvement over the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s typical Geekbench 6 single-core performance (around 3,150-3,200 depending on thermal conditions).

Multi-core performance crosses the 10k threshold for the first time in Galaxy history. The S25 Ultra typically landed between 9,200 and 9,600 in sustained workloads.

The topology breakdown reveals 1 processor with 8 cores: 6 performance cores clocked at 3.63 GHz (Cluster 1) and 2 prime cores at 4.74 GHz (Cluster 2).

The instruction set confirmation (neon, aes, sha1, sha2, neon-fp16, neon-dotprod, sve, i8mm, sme-i8i32, sme-f32f32) shows full ARMv9 feature parity with advanced matrix multiplication support.

For those of us tracking the S-series year over year, this marks a generational shift in on-device AI capabilities and sustained thermal performance under heavy compute loads.

Samsung appears to have made the strategic call to ship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 globally for the Ultra model. The S26 Ultra is shaping up to be the most technically sound Ultra model Samsung has shipped in three years.

Whether it becomes the definitive upgrade of the year depends on factors this Geekbench listing can’t reveal. From the SoC side, this is the cleanest win Samsung has had in the premium Android space since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 era.

Source – Geekbench

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Global version has now appeared on Geekbench, revealing the Exynos 2600’s CPU and GPU performance benchmarks.

Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus will launch with Exynos 2600 in the Global market, whereas the Galaxy S26 Ultra will go solo with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Samsung’s in-house chip has made great improvements in CPU and GPU stats.

Galaxy S26 Exynos CPU performance

The Galaxy S26 vanilla model has spotted on Geekbench with the Exynos 2600 chipset. The device scored up to 3336 points in single-core CPU performance tests and up to 11369 in multi-core CPU performance tests.

Galaxy S26 Exynos GPU performance

The base Galaxy S26 was also tested on Geekbench’s GPU benchmark. The phone benchmarked at 27478 points in Vulkan, indicating strong performance. This is backed by Samsung’s Xclipse 960 GPU powered by AMD graphics.

Source – Geekbench

The Exynos 2600 chipset features a deca-core CPU, consisting of a tri-cluster architecture. It has a prime core clocked at 3.8 GHz, 3 performance cores hitting 3.26 GHz, and six efficiency cores peaking at 2.76 GHz.

Additional info revealed in the benchmark test includes Android 16-based One UI skin and 12GB of RAM. The device is set to launch with One UI 8.5 preinstalled and storage options start from 256GB; there’s no 128GB version.

The device was tested a handful of times on the Geekbench platform. Scores remained stable, indicating that the company has finally achieved reliability. From this point, only further improvements are likely till release.

Samsung will introduce the Galaxy S26 series on February 25 in San Francisco.

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