Samsung Exynos 2600 Spotted on Geekbench Again With Improved Scores

Samsung is gearing up to unveil a new Exynos chipset in the form of the Exynos 2600. The chipset was spotted once in Geekbench, and now pays another visit. The first results were far from impressive - especially when we're seeing the next Snapdragon 8 or the Dimensity 9500 in some benchmarks. However, the new visit shows an interesting improvement.

Previously, Samsung's next flagship SoC was spotted with a single-core score of 2,155 points. The device also scored 7,788 points in the multi-core department. This was not on par with the upcoming flagship SoCs, but the new scores show an improvement.

The Exynos 2600 now scored 3,309 points in the single-core score and 11,256 points in the multi-core department. Samsung seems to be constantly tweaking the next high-end SoC from Exynos' house. It is now close to Apple's M3 and beats Qualcomm's current flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

The Exynos 2600 now reaches 3.8 GHz in the prime core, up from 3.55 GHz. The three performance cores are now 3.26 GHz, up from 2.96 GHz. The six other cores are clocked at up to 2.76 GHz, up from 2.46 GHz.

The Exynos 2600 will be fabbed at a 2nm process, and should be the first to hit this new milestone. According to Samsung, it offers "a significant improvement in NPU performance" compared to the Exynos 2500. It will also feature "enhanced support for on-device AI," which is the new trend among mobile devices. The Exynos 2600 will likely make its debut in January inside some of the Galaxy S26 Pro and S26 Edge units.

With the Exynos 2500, Samsung showed improvements in its chipsets. However, these chipsets are still behind their Snapdragon counterparts. Beating the Snapdragon 8 Elite is a good thing indeed, but will it beat the next Snapdragon flagship SoC? Only time will tell.