Samsung made a statement by officially announcing that its Exynos 2600 would be its first 2nm GAA chipset, but made no performance comparisons other than the fact that its Neural Processing Unit, or NPU, will deliver significant performance improvements. While the Korean giant kept mum about its SoC’s single-threaded and multi-threaded prowess, the Exynos 2600 slowly found its way in the latest benchmark leak, and from the looks of it, the company has finally delivered a viable competitor, as it manages to take on an underclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
New benchmark leak also reveals the Exynos 2600’s 10-core CPU cluster, with the fastest one operating at 3.80GHz
Coming to the scores, the Exynos 2600 obtained a single-core and multi-core score of 3,309 and 11,256 in Geekbench 6, making it the first time in a significantly longer period that Samsung has finally delivered something that can match other flagship chipsets. For one thing, the latest leak shows that the SoC is miles ahead of the Dimensity 9500, which only leaves its next rival, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, though until recently, we were referring to it as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. The most recent benchmark of Qualcomm’s flagship silicon showed a Galaxy S26 Edge securing a score of 3,393 and 11,515 points.
However, it should be mentioned that Samsung’s upcoming sleek flagship was running its performance cores at 4.00GHz instead of the default 4.74GHz, leaving some of that performance on the table. Since these are the only results we have for comparison, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is only 2.5 percent faster than the Exynos 2600. Keep in mind that this is not the last time that we have seen Samsung’s 2nm GAA SoC in action, meaning that with a little bit of tweaking, these figures could be higher.
Of course, it will also be interesting to see how the Exynos 2600 fares against a fully-powered Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and not a gimped version. We also have not addressed the power consumption factor, as it will play a pivotal role when the Exynos 2600 powers some of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 models. As time moves on, we will get a clearer picture of how this silicon performs, but compared to the previous result that we reported about, we are looking at a ‘day and night’ difference, thanks to a massive 53.5 percent improvement in the single-core and multi-core scores.
News Source: Geekbench 6
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